Taoist health preserving methods

Sun Simiao (54 1 or 58 1 ~ 682) was a famous Taoist and medical doctor in Tang dynasty.

Jingzhao Huayuan (now Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province) was born. Young, smart and studious. He claimed that "when he was young, he suffered from cold, repeatedly built a medical clinic, used up the money of soup and medicine, and exhausted his family property." And the dragon, through the old, Zhuang and hundreds, good Buddhist scriptures. /kloc-at the age of 0/8, he decided to study medicine. "He is quite open-minded, and he benefits more from those who are sick at home and abroad." In the first year of Dacheng in the Northern Zhou Dynasty (579), he lived in seclusion in Taibai Mountain (now Shaanxi County), learning Tao, refining qi, cultivating self-cultivation, and studying the art of health preservation and longevity. When Zhou Jingdi ascended the throne, Sui Wendi was appointed as a doctor and said that he was ill. In the Great Year of Sui Dynasty (605 ~ 6 18), I visited Emei in the middle of Sichuan. Sui died, hid in, and got along well with the monk's preaching. Emperor Taizong Li Shimin acceded to the throne and was called to the capital. He was knighted for his "Tao", but he refused to accept it, and later returned to Emei to refine "Taiyi Shenjing Dan". In 658, in the third year of Xianqing, Tang Gaozong was recruited to Beijing again and lived in the abandoned house of Princess Poyang. The next year, Emperor Gaozong summoned him and made suggestions to the doctor, but he still refused. In the fourth year of Xianheng (673), Gaozong fell ill, which made him obey the imperial edict. In the first year of Shangyuan (674), he resigned due to illness and returned to the mountain. Emperor Gaozong gave him a good horse. He belongs to Princess Poyang. In the first year of Yongchun, he was ordered to be buried thinly, not to hide funerary objects, and sacrificed to the prison. Song Huizong Chongning for two years (1 103) was awarded the title of Miaoying as a real person.

It is said that Sun Simiao is good at Yin and Yang, pushing steps, and understanding numbers is very skillful. Life is not official, hidden in the mountains. Collect medicine and treat diseases in person. He collected folk prescriptions and secret recipes, summarized clinical experience and previous medical theories, and made important contributions to medicine and pharmacology. Later generations respectfully called him "the King of Medicine". Based on the theory of zang-fu organs in Huangdi Neijing, the classification, syndrome differentiation and treatment of miscellaneous diseases centered on cold, heat and deficiency of zang-fu organs were put forward for the first time in Qian Jin Fang Yao. After sorting out Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Zhang Zhongjing classified typhoid fever into twelve articles and put forward fifteen taboos for typhoid fever, which was highly valued by later typhoid fever scientists.

He collected many medical theories, prescriptions, medication, acupuncture and other experiences from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, as well as health preserving methods such as hooking, dietotherapy, guidance and massage, and wrote 30 volumes of Qian Jin Fang Yao, which is divided into 232 chapters, which is close to the classification method of modern clinical medicine. The book contains 5300 prescriptions and treatises, and there are many kinds of prescriptions and rich contents. It is a representative masterpiece in the development of medicine in the Tang Dynasty in China, and it has obvious influence and contribution to the development of medicine in later generations, especially prescription science. It has also played a positive role in the medical development of Japan and South Korea. The 30-volume Forward Fang Yi belongs to his later works and is a comprehensive supplement to Forward Fang Yao. The book is divided into 189 chapters, including more than 2,900 prescriptions, theories and methods, and records more than 800 kinds of drugs, especially for typhoid fever, stroke, miscellaneous diseases and ulcers.

He insists on the method of syndrome differentiation and treatment, and thinks that if people are good at recuperating their lives, they can avoid diseases.

As long as "a good doctor guides him with a medical stone and saves him with an injection", "there is a treatable disease in his body shape and an incurable disaster in the world." He attaches great importance to medical ethics, regardless of "rich and poor, old and young, jealous of friends, ignorant." As the saying goes, "life is a matter of life, and there is a precious daughter." He attaches great importance to maternal and child health care, and has written three volumes of Women's Prescription and two volumes of Infant Prescription, which are at the top of Qian Jinfang Yao.

Sun Simiao combined the Taoist theory of internal cultivation with medicine and hygiene, and took health preservation as the medical content. It is believed that when people get old, their physical characteristics, physiology and pathology have changed. If you want to live a long life, you must pay attention to your diet and daily life. In the preface to nourishing sexual desire, he particularly emphasized that the elderly "can't spit far, can't move fast, can't listen hard, can't stare hard, can't sit close, can't be tired, can't lie down." Cold and clothing first, heat and solution first. Eat if you don't want to be extremely hungry, and don't eat too much; I don't want to drink too much when I am very thirsty, and I combine the skills of "guiding, promoting qi and supplementing the room".

Have a comprehensive observation and in-depth analysis of the aging process and performance, psychological characteristics and changes, as well as geriatric diseases, health care and medical care.

It is believed that the elderly should engage in activities suitable for the characteristics of the elderly, such as regulating qi, massage, guiding, promoting qi, walking, etc., thus enriching the contents and methods of Taoist internal cultivation and exploring the Taoist method of taking medicine to become immortal.

It is considered that taking the elixir to become an immortal is "the sacred road is hanging, the clouds are sparse, and you only look at the sky and don't know how to lift it."

But he used alchemy as a means of pharmacy, and its purpose was to save the emergency. He extracted the "single crystal of Taiyi God", that is, "both the subject and the guest suffer from cholera, abdominal distension, corpse, evil wind, crazy ghost talk, poisonous demon charm and epidemic febrile disease".

There are more than 30 kinds of his works in history, but most of them have been lost. There are 30 volumes of Qian Jin Fang Yao and Qian Jin Fang Yi, which are famous medical works in China. Others, such as the theory of caring for others, the main points of the list crystal and Pirin China, are still partially lost.