In 1747, a British ship drifted on the sea, and a disease appeared on the ship without any accident. People with this disease first had bleeding teeth, then bleeding, ulceration, bone problems, unable to stand up, and skin fell off... The final death was extremely miserable..."

Li Mengyang's story quickly attracted Xie Tiansi's attention because this incident is very interesting. The key is that the death of the disease is so miserable?

Li Mengyang continued to say: "But at that time, there was a doctor on the ship who was a Western doctor and a military doctor from the Royal Navy in the UK. His name was James Lind. This person is very interesting. When he saw this disease, he had experienced many such diseases before, and basically many people would die. There was no good way. Very few of them could survive. Then Dr. Lind wanted to try to cure this disease by himself?"

"Is it cured?" Xie Tiansi was anxious.

"Haha..." Li Mengyang smiled, and the effect was needed. "Before this, some people thought about treating this disease, but there was no good method. However, since some people tried it, they left some prescriptions, such as drinking sea water, drinking dilute sulfuric acid, eating fruits such as oranges and lemons, and eating raw mutton. There are many kinds of things, but no one knows which one is good, so what do you think of this?"

"This..." Xie Tiansi didn't understand, "So many methods [⊥, can there be cured?"

"Of course there are, but there are also some that cannot be cured. What do you think you will do?"

"This..." Xie Tiansi had no choice but to do anything about it this time.

Actually, how simple is this question?

I heard Li Mengyang say, "Doctor Lin De thought of a solution. In fact, it is very simple. That is. So many people on the boat are sick, so just put them into groups, one by one, and one by one uses a prescription. For example, if you drink salt water, I drink dilute sulfuric acid. He eats fruit, and then find someone to eat raw mutton... This is the experiment, and in this way, there is always someone who may be cured. How can the person who has been cured? He will treat others. Isn't that enough?"

"..." This method may not sound difficult, but, if you do this, Xie Tiansi just can't make a turn because this is not in line with the medical skills he has learned!

"What's the final result?" Xie Tiansi was very curious.

"The one who drinks lemon water and eats oranges is alive." Li Mengyang quickly gave the answer.

"..." It seemed that a window suddenly opened in Xie Tiansi's mind, but something was blocking it.

"This method is actually very simple, right?" Li Mengyang said with a smile.

"Yes, it's very simple." Xie Tiansi nodded, but he was sweating profusely now.

"You must be thinking about being alone now, right?" Li Mengyang patted Xie Tiansi on the shoulder.

"How do you know?" Xie Tiansi was stunned.

"This person should be named Wang Qingren, right?" Li Mengyang said with a smile.

"..." Xie Tiansi knelt down at that time, "Your Majesty is wise! Your Majesty is the most wise ruler in history! You can understand everything, but you can't hide your Majesty's thoughts at all!"

What's wrong with Xie Tiansi? Is Li Mengyang really right?

Why is this?!

Actually, it’s too simple. Although Li Mengyang is not a doctor, he knows a topic and he is also a history. As for Wang Qingren, hehe, this guy has left behind a book "Medical Forest Revise" for more than 30 years. This book and this person were debated by the Xinglin Society of the Qing Dynasty for a long time!

Then why did they jump from British Linde to Wang Qingren? It seems that there are thousands of miles apart, right?

That's right, it's true, but these two people are quite interesting, because these two people have made a huge change in the two medicines. Oh, it should be said that one person changed one medicine, and the other person, although he mentioned it and said it, it was not successful. In fact, this is the topic.

The dispute between traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine!

The topic of traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine is called a taboo topic in later generations. As long as you talk about this, if you drink, you might end up with the bottle of wine flying around. If it is a meeting, it will definitely be a good meeting. If it is a friend, you may have a robe cut off and the meaning will be broken!

Yes, this topic is so powerful and so cruel, and it is deterrent.

Everyone knows about this topic, but it is actually a debate about whether traditional Chinese medicine is reliable!

So, is traditional Chinese medicine reliable?

For this question, Li Mengyang doesn’t need to draw a conclusion, because he now has the opportunity to do something to reverse the entire situation of traditional Chinese medicine!

He only heard him ask Xie Tiansi: "Tiansi, you must have read medical books. So let me ask you, how many prescriptions are there for a disease in our Chinese medical books?"

"This..." Xie Tiansi couldn't answer for a moment because he had to think, he had to calculate that the prescriptions for a disease in our medical books would be at least twenty or thirty books. If several books were added together, then the number of them...

It's really not easy to calculate!

But Li Mengyang seemed to be unable to wait, and he laughed and said, "I'll ask you again, just talk about it and see, which prescription is really useful?"

Xie Tiansi couldn't answer this question either!

So from this point of view, this guy is a quack doctor? Is it just a matter of ignorance to treat patients?

It’s really not, because Li Mengyang knew that Xie Tiansi couldn’t answer this question!

This is not right! A doctor knows many prescriptions, so how could he not know which one is useful? Isn’t this nonsense?

Li Mengyang is very clear that it is not nonsense at all, and this is actually the problem of traditional Chinese medicine!

Li Mengyang doesn't understand medical skills, really doesn't understand, but he knows history. He knows that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, there was a famous doctor who extracted artemisinin from Artemisia annua and cured the disease malaria, which saved the lives of at least tens of millions of people. This is definitely a major historical event.

As for this doctor, she said, the inspiration came from a traditional Chinese medicine book, called "Emergency Prescriptions for Elbows"!

"Emergency Preparation for Elbows", look at the name of this book. Put it behind your elbow. When you are sick, take it out and use it. This bragging is really good. But this book is really well-known. This book is really well-known. This is what Ge Hong did. Who is Ge Hong? He was a Taoist scholar in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it has been at least 1,500 years!

Then... I won’t talk about future generations, just talk about now, since this prescription appeared 1,500 years ago, why do people die of malaria? Why do you have to wait for future generations? Is it because of the technical difficulties in extracting artemisinin?

Obviously not, because it is not that difficult to extract a so-called artemisinin? The prescription says clearly that it is enough to just squeeze it out. Although it is not so pure, it can definitely save people.

So why is this? Why don’t you know how to treat malaria?

The reason is very simple. There are more than 40 prescriptions for treating malaria in "Emergency Prescriptions for Elbows"!

Because of this?

It's because of this!

What does those more than forty prescriptions represent?

It means that Ge Hong himself doesn’t know which of these forty prescriptions is really good!

Otherwise, why would he have to write more than forty prescriptions?

And that's the key!

That's the problem with traditional Chinese medicine!

Why was Wang Qingren arguing and scolded? Isn’t that book called “Medical Forest Revised”? Do you still understand?

Yes, after so many years of development in traditional Chinese medicine, no one has come out to sort out the previous prescriptions and to distinguish which one is effective. It is Li Shizhen, who has more than 10,000 prescriptions in his "Compendium of Materia Medica", and in this famous medical work, there are many prescriptions that we can tell at a glance that are nonsense.

For example, to treat body odor, as mentioned in "Compendium of Materia Medica", use two cooked eggs, cover them and hide them under your armpits, and then run to a three-way intersection to throw away the eggs. Repeat three times to cure body odor!

It’s just nonsense, that’s it’s written into traditional Chinese medicine’s medical books or famous works, but now doctors still believe in this. This is the prescription, and maybe it’s cured?

However, Li Mengyang’s view of traditional Chinese medicine is not blindly criticized, because after all, there are examples of artemisinin, and this is telling us that as long as we find a way to ‘get out the dross and get the essence’, that’s fine, and traditional Chinese medicine can be carried forward!

What is this method?

In fact, it was a group control experiment, which was a very simple thing, which was used by Dr. Linde.

Don’t underestimate this simple method. Just this thing, Li Mengyang is too clear about it. It’s nothing in later generations. Everyone knows it, and middle school students can do it. But!

Just such a small thing led to the watershed between the two major medicines. Western medicine began to develop greatly from then on and embarked on a relatively scientific development path.

Just such a small thing, no one has used it in the development of traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. Wang Qingren was born. He wanted to change some seemingly unreliable things, but he was scolded for being completely useless!

And the most important thing is that Li Mengyang is very clear that at this time, in the middle of the 19th century, Western medicine has not made much progress. In other words, it is not too late for us traditional Chinese medicine to catch up now!

Although Dr. Lin De came up with such a method, his method has not really become popular yet, and many people still have doubts. There is a particularly interesting example here.

"Tiansi, do you know Washington?"

"Washington?" Xie Tiansi was a little confused. Why did His Majesty speak so leaps? "Is it the founding president of the United States?"

"That's him!" Li Mengyang smiled slightly again, and then he was about to start telling stories again. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!

ps: So, I'm asking for a ticket for a black car, any ticket is fine, thank you! In addition, this paragraph is actually very important, sincere.

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