Li Shizhen was born into a medical family in the Ming Dynasty, and his grandfather and father were both doctors. He also liked medicine since he was a child. When I grew up, I became a doctor, studied medicine and became a famous physician and pharmacologist in China.
As early as in his youth, Li Shizhen studied drugs while practicing medicine, determined to write a relatively complete book on drugs. 155 1 year, King Chu of Wuchang, the imperial clan of the Ming Dynasty, learned of his superb medical skills and hired him to take charge of sacrifices and medical services in Wang Fu. In order to rebuild the materia medica, he packed his bags and went into the palace. Soon after, he became famous in the imperial court because he cured the King of Chu's sudden syncope and other incurable diseases, and was recommended as a medical officer in the Imperial Hospital. The Royal Hospital, the central medical institution in the Ming Dynasty, has a large number of precious medical books and medical specimens. He opened his eyes here, plunged into the pile of books, studied, refined and described drug patterns day and night, and tried to absorb the medical essence provided by predecessors. At the same time, he repeatedly suggested to the hospital to compile Materia Medica. However, his suggestion was not only not adopted, but was attacked and slandered by groundless satire. He soon understood that this place is by no means his own, and he must go his own way if he wants to realize the ideal he has struggled for all his life. A year later, he resolutely returned to China.
1552, 34-year-old Li Shizhen started to study materia medica again as planned. Due to full preparation, it went well at first. Later, in the process of writing, I found that there are many kinds of drugs, and it is difficult to know all their personalities, habits and growth. For example, Agkistrodon, together with bamboo leaves and mugwort leaves, is one of the three specialties in qi zhou, which can be used to treat diseases such as wind arthralgia, convulsion and tinea, and is a valuable medicinal material. But the "Agkistrodon" he bought from drug dealers is sometimes a fake of another kind of snake, which is quite different from what is described in the book. So, what is a real white snake like? In order to solve this mystery, Li Shizhen personally followed the snake catcher up the mountain and caught a white snake. Take a closer look and it's exactly the same as what the book says.
From then on, Li Shizhen left home and went to Shan Ye to compare and identify drugs. In addition to Huguang, I have also been to Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Anhui, Henan and other places, covering the north and south of the river and traveling more than 20,000 miles. While reading a lot of ancient medical books, he took notes carefully. He recorded what he thought was right, wrong, needed textual research and should be supplemented, visited doctors, old farmers, fishermen and hunters everywhere, collected folk remedies and earthwork, and personally went to the mountains to collect medicines. He is not afraid of mountains, roads, cold and heat, and has traveled all over the famous mountains that produce medicinal materials. Sometimes he doesn't go down the mountain for days. Eat some dry food when you are hungry, and spend the night in the mountains when it gets dark. He personally tasted many medicinal materials and judged their performance and efficacy. In this way, he went through hardships and accumulated a lot of medical materials.
Li Shizhen started writing in his thirties, and didn't write the first draft of Compendium of Materia Medica until he was 54. Later, it was revised three times in succession. By the age of 665,438+0, this big book of 654,380+09,000 words has all been written.
Compendium of Materia Medica contains 1892 drugs in 52 volumes, which are divided into 16 parts and 60 categories, of which 374 are new drugs that have not been recorded in the past. The name, properties, uses and preparation methods of each drug are described in detail in the book. More than 65,438+065,438+000 prescriptions and 65,438+065,438+060 drug morphology charts are attached to the book.
Extended contents: Compendium of Materia Medica, Mubu and Bletilla striata, and their original texts and translations.
Mubu baiji
Author: Li Shizhen
Explain a name
Red dragon claw with pricking needle. Hua Ming ci yuan
smell
(Nitraria tangutorum) pungent, cold and nontoxic.
therapy
Urine and blood. Use three liters of Nitraria, five procedures of adding water, boil two liters, and take it three times.
Deficiency and cold of viscera, tingling in abdomen and hypochondrium. Mix Nitraria tangutorum (baked) and Areca catechu in two and a half pieces, add a bowl of water, fry for five minutes, add half a bowl of good wine, cook for several times and take it twice.
Eyelashes are upside down. Parching Nitraria 120, Pheretima 2, Equisetum equisetum 120 and Momordica cochinchinensis 2, depilating, and inhaling the powder into the nose three to five times a day. Eyelashes are no longer inverted.
Dental caries decay. Use 200 white spines (those who have landed), add three procedures of water, boil to one liter, and wash. Or burn spines to apply the diseased teeth, and then apply realgar powder.
A child's mouth is silent and the wind is shocking. Burning thorns is still a thought, and water will pay you.
Children with edema. Wash and wipe with boiled Nitraria tangutorum root juice.
Hemorrhoids and carbuncle leakage. The treatment method is the same as above.
Boils are burned in a bottle with three white thorns (barbs) and seven petals. Add baby feces before the full moon and mix well. Apply the sore three times a day.
There is pus at the swelling. Nitraria burns ashes, and water will pay for it. Overnight, swelling can come out.
Chinese Translation and Translation of Classical Chinese