Chapter 39: The art of differentiating yellow
Qianjin Yifang is divided into two volumes, and it took seven days to memorize the contents of the first volume on disease diagnosis and treatment.
It is rare to be able to remember things with a photograph, but the most difficult thing is to draw inferences from one example. If you cannot draw inferences from one example, you will not be able to learn and apply it. If you cannot learn and apply it, you will just copy the dogma and follow the script, and sooner or later you will cause disaster.
The reason why people get sick is that there is an imbalance in the five elements in the body. Using different medicines and stones to correct deviations is called treatment. However, this seemingly simple diagnosis and treatment contains infinite variables. Taking wind and cold as an example,
For the same symptoms, men and women will take different medicines. If a man is positive, the medicine for positive symptoms will be slightly reduced.
For the same men, different medicines are given at different ages. Men in the prime of life have stronger yang energy than young and old men. When taking medicine, the positive medicine will be reduced by a few points.
Don’t underestimate this reduction. A prescription consists of several or even dozens of drugs, which affects the whole body. If the amount of one drug is reduced, other drugs need to be adjusted, and some need to be reduced by a few points.
Some may cost extra.
In addition, there are thousands of medicines recorded in the book, and the combinations are complex and subtle. It is difficult to describe this feeling in words. It is like having thousands of different soldiers under your command. When the enemy attacks, you have to prepare your own medicines according to the different types of enemies in the barracks.
Select soldiers who can defeat the enemy to go out to fight. When selecting soldiers, you must not only weigh whether these soldiers can defeat the enemy, but also consider whether the soldiers sent out will kill each other and fight among themselves.
While researching and studying, a strange idea often comes to mind, that is, it is easier to kill people than to save people. People often say that medicines are divided into three parts: poisons. This is true. There are usually only one or two main ingredients in a prescription.
The other drugs are auxiliary drugs. Sometimes the role of auxiliary drugs is only to restrain the shortcomings of the main drug, but has no effect of curing the disease.
If you only consider the benefits of a drug to the patient without considering its side effects, the prescription may kill the patient.
People with low levels of understanding talk about things on paper, while people with high levels of understanding draw parallels. While researching prescriptions from memory, they also discover another rule, that is, pharmacology and principles are actually interlinked. Everything has a yin and yang.
To consider the good side, you also have to consider the bad side.
Take ginseng, which is great for nourishing qi and blood, as an example. It is not suitable for obese people, people with insomnia and night terrors, and people with weak spleen and stomach. If you only think about the benefits of ginseng when prescribing medicine, but not its disadvantages, the prescription will be bad.
It may aggravate the symptoms. Patients who are deficient in both Qi and blood need to rest. However, if they do not eat properly and cannot sleep at night after taking the medicine, it is equivalent to killing the patient.
If this pharmacology is used as a life principle, it means that something that seems good may not be suitable for everyone. If you want to give something to others, you must first look at what others need.
Things that people need are good things. Things that others don’t need, if the giver insists on forcing them on others with good intentions, it is likely to harm others.
A good doctor may not be well versed in the ways of the world, but he must understand the principles of yin and yang.
He brought a lot of dry food with him, and he didn't eat much. Half a fire a day was enough. The weather was dry and cold, so it wouldn't spoil easily if burned.
In addition, since he grew up in a mountain village, he can look for edible grass roots in the forest. The most common ones are apricot leaf adenophora and Platycodon grandiflorum. The former is commonly known as old hen's chicken, and the latter is commonly known as bachelor's head. The rhizomes are thick and edible, and there is nothing to eat.
Odor.
In addition, he can also fish and catch shrimps. He has a stone fire break on his body and half a bag of salt. His livelihood is no problem. However, he rarely lights a fire because he is worried that the smoke will reveal his whereabouts. He only occasionally lights a fire at noon.
When building a bonfire, use dry firewood to minimize smoke.
For others, he would inevitably miss home after being away from home for a long time, but he has always been alone, with only Lao Huang as his companion. After Lao Huang died, he no longer had any worries, and he did not feel lonely living alone in the mountains. He only occasionally waited for Batulu.
People are worried and don’t know where they are or what their situation is.
Make sure to memorize the first volume completely and burn it. If these things are seen by others, they will reveal his identity and bring disaster to them.
He read the second volume very slowly. In the first volume, he had the mentality of promoting research and study, but in the second volume, he regarded it as a verification and test. He cut a piece of wood to cover the page, and only looked at the symptoms on the right side, not the left.
To make a prescription, consider the proportions in your mind based on the symptoms, write the prescription, carefully consider it, move the wood slices, then look at Sun Zhenren's prescription, and then compare the two.
The prescription he came up with in the first few pages was very different from Sun Zhenren's prescription. Sun Zhenren was a miracle doctor, and there would definitely be no problem with the prescription he prescribed. The difference was naturally because the prescription he prescribed was flawed. With this mentality, he considered it
After careful consideration, we searched for the differences, and we tried to figure out why Sun Zhenren drugged him like this, no matter how much time or brainpower he had.
This method is the most labor-intensive method, and it is also the method that makes the fastest progress. The improvement of Qihuang's technique can be said to be rapid.
Although I was overjoyed, I also felt that there were two reasons for my rapid progress. One was my intelligence and hard work, and the other was thanks to the silent guidance of the Medicine King Sun Zhenren. Sun Zhenren was the real master of Qihuang. Only with such a gentleman could he make rapid progress.
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In the second example on the five pages, the prescription was roughly the same as the prescription in the book, except that
Several of the auxiliary medicines were different in price, which made him ecstatic. Prescribing this successful medicine did not mean that the medicine was correct for each disease, but it meant that he could accurately select among thousands of soldiers.
A dozen soldiers can go out of the city to meet the enemy.
From then on, each page could match several prescriptions in more than a dozen cases. The number of correct answers became more and more, and the dosage of the medicine became more and more accurate. From the initial difference of a few dollars, to the last one, it was even the same.
By the time he was half way through the next volume, he had already been able to hit nine out of ten shots. Even one shot that was not very accurate was no big problem. It was just that the auxiliary medicines used were different. He used three-coin licorice, while Sun Zhenren used two-dozen licorice.
Scutellaria baicalensis.
Scutellaria baicalensis and licorice both clear away heat and detoxify, and their effects are similar. There is little difference in which one is used as the main medicine and auxiliary medicine.
If it were anyone else, he would definitely skip it and not study it in depth, but he refused. At this time, he already knew a lot about the art of Qihuang. The deeper he understood it, the more he was in awe. Using medicine was like poisoning, and he was careless.
No, he had to find out why Sun Zhenren used skullcap instead of licorice.
After deliberation for a long time, I still can't figure out the difference between the two. Scutellaria baicalensis and licorice can both nourish the spleen and qi, clear away heat and detoxify, and their medicinal effects are very similar.
Thinking and deliberating is the most tiring, and he even feels tight in his chest and feels dizzy at the end. Even so, he still does not give up. Life is not a trivial matter, and he must strive for excellence.
After thinking hard for a long time, I finally realized that the meridians belong to each other. Scutellaria baicalensis is responsible for the lung meridian, while licorice is responsible for the heart meridian. Scutellaria baicalensis has the same effect as licorice. It can stop bleeding. The lungs will inevitably be damaged when coughing for a long time. It is very helpful to clear away heat and detoxify at the same time to stop bleeding.
necessary.
After understanding the reason, I admired Master Sun greatly. A master is a master. If you don't accept it, you can pick it up at your fingertips. It covers everything and is impeccable.
By the time there are three pages left in the next volume, I have been able to hit ten out of ten shots, and the dosage of the medicine is accurate.
He couldn't remember exactly how long he had been in the mountains. He had already finished eating the fire, he had eaten all the fish and shrimp in the pool, and the originally bare branches had already grown green leaves.
At this point, I knew it was time to leave. If I didn't leave, thorns would grow in the mountains, the rain would be more frequent, and there would be more snakes and insects.
There was only one problem with one of the formulas on the last three pages, and it was a very small difference. He continued to review it as usual, but his mentality was different. After being unable to review it for a long time, he even wondered whether Sun Zhenren had made a clerical error while writing.
But in the end he found out that something was wrong with him. The reason why Sun Zhenren used White Poria instead of Poria was because this recipe was only suitable for women.
White Poria cocos can not only calm the mind and calm the mind, but also whiten the skin.
After thinking about the reason, you raise your hands and clap your head. All those who have achieved extraordinary achievements in some aspects must have something extraordinary about them. You must be in awe of these people.
After formulating prescriptions for the remaining diseases, the second volume of Qianjinyi Prescription was also burned. In fact, the diseases and prescriptions recorded in Qianjinyi Prescription did not cover all diseases and difficult and complicated diseases, but for those diseases not recorded in the book,
He will not be helpless, because the method of discriminating yellow is by analogy. It is nothing more than identifying the symptoms and treating them according to the appropriate proportion.
He was ready to leave, but he still had some things to do before leaving. Naturally, the soldier's clothes could no longer be worn and had to be burned.
The wooden box containing the Golden Pill of Return to Heaven cannot be carried with him. He had seen the pills in the wooden box before. There were nine pills wrapped in wax seals, and the bottom row contained three antidote pills.
, are all green, but the colors are different in shades. There are words on the partition of the wooden box, the light green one is called Jiedu Dan, the green one is called Jiedu Lingdan, and the dark green one is called Jiedu Golden Pill.
The second row is the healing elixir, all of which are red. The light red one is called the healing elixir, the red one is called the healing silver elixir, and the red one is the healing golden elixir.
The top row is three pills for returning to heaven and renewing life. The light yellow one is the pill for returning to heaven, the white one is for returning to heaven silver pill, and the golden one is the pill for returning to heaven that he must send to Ge Zao Mountain.
Golden elixir.
After pondering, he took out four pills from the wooden box, namely the Detoxification Pill, the Healing Pill, the Heaven-Returning Pill, and the Heaven-Returning Golden Pill. The first three were prepared for himself. It was a long journey to Gezao Mountain, so he had to
Encountered various accidents, even if he was well versed in the art of Qihuang, he would not have time to prepare the medicine to save himself after being in danger. These three pills are all patent medicines and must be carried with him in case of emergency.
He can't bring the Hanyue sword with him either. He doesn't know martial arts and hiding his whereabouts is the best way to protect himself. Carrying the sword with him will do more harm than good.
He had a habit of hiding things that were not needed for the time being. He was unwilling to bury the long knife in the soil, so he found a dead tree nearby and hid the long knife in the trunk.
But after hiding it, he changed his mind. He couldn't hide it in a dead tree. If he was chopped down by a villager, the long knife would be lost. He had to hide it in a living tree. Hanyue's long knife was extremely sharp and could easily cut through the tree trunk.
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In addition to the long sword box, he also had a flute on him, which was given to him by Mayumi Takeda. He could not take it with him at the moment, so he hid it in the tree with the long sword box.
Chapter completed!