Inner peace is a good medicine.
This is written by Su Dongpo in a poem, which means that it is good to ask for a sick leave. Peace of mind is the best medicine, which reflects his broad-mindedness. According to scholar Peng, Su Dongpo was ill all his life. He suffered from left hand hemiplegia, deafness, hemorrhoids, lung disease, headache, dental disease and boils caused by eye disease and shoulder pain for a long time, and his condition was serious.
For example, eye diseases, "recently, wind and poison attacked my right eye, and I almost went blind, thinking that the crime was heavy and the responsibility was light, and the disaster was not over." "I have been ill for hundreds of days since spring and summer, and I am still suffering from eye diseases." As for deafness, "he was more like Du Like Weng Ling in his later years, although his right arm had ears first." People can fight ants, and it is really awkward to feel the wind and thunder. "He claims to be as deaf as the old Du Fu, and others have ear diseases, that is, listening to the sound of ants crawling like bullfighting; I am deaf, but I listen to thunder as a sigh.
Su Dongpo also suffered from summer heat, that is, heatstroke; In his later years, "urine is white" and "intestine is slippery", that is, spermatorrhea; Self-made prescription cure
Despite the ups and downs, Su Dongpo lived to 66 years old, outliving his father Su Xun (57 years old), his son Mai Su (60 years old), his second son Su Chang (56 years old), his third son Su Guo (565,438+0 years old) and his contemporaries Ouyang Xiu and Wang Anshi. This is related to Su Dongpo's emphasis on health preservation and his mastery of medicine. In addition, he practiced Taoism since childhood, and his younger brother Su Zhe followed him. The latter was in worse health when he was young, but he lived to be 74 years old.
On the one hand, Su Zhe's practice function is persistent, while Su Dongpo spends three days fishing and two days drying nets.
On the other hand, Su Dongpo was demoted to Danzhou in his later years, and his immunity plummeted.
Under the pressure of eight diseases, Su Dongpo finally died of myelopathy of unknown causes.
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Su Dongpo was a literary leader in the Northern Song Dynasty. His writing, poetry, ci, books and paintings were all the best at that time. 2 1 year-old, won the bid. After the entrance examination, Song Renzong said happily, "I am now the Taiping Prime Minister of my descendants." Su Dongpo and his younger brother Su Zhe.
Both the Su brothers are in poor health, which may be related to the poor health of their father Su Xun.
Su Xun had six children, the eldest son (Su Jingxian), the eldest daughter and the second daughter died young. Su Ba Niang (Su Shi's sister Su Xiaomei), the only daughter who lived to adulthood, died before she was 20 years old. Su Xun's father Su Xu lived for a long time (75 years old). Su Xu has three sons, the eldest son Su Lian lived to be 74 years old and the second son Su Xun was 62 years old. Su Xun is the worst, only 57 years old. It should be a genetic defect.
Su Dongpo was born in poverty. He once wrote a poem saying that "a teenager is too ill to drink", but he is not good at drinking. Cheng Peng, a fellow countryman and colleague, said: "Zi Zhan (that is, Su Dongpo) has always said that he is not as good as others in his life, saying that he plays chess, drinks and sings." Su Dongpo himself said: "Poetry is like chess, chess is like drinking, and drinking is heaven." You can't be a servant of chess and wine. "
First, my father Su Xun is not good at drinking. He once wrote a poem saying, "I am so ill that I am trapped by a glass of wine. I want to take a bus." It belongs to the type of not drinking just right, but drinking more.
Second, born with weak liver, poor hangover relieving ability.
Third, Su Dongpo suffers from hemorrhoids all the year round. He once wrote: "An old bitter hemorrhoid covers 2 1 year. It has suddenly become a masterpiece recently, and all kinds of drugs are ineffective. Although I know it won't be very harmful, it's still quite difficult to be bored for more than two months. " When he was an official in Hangzhou, he had a lot of business entertainment. Su Dongpo was "tired of answering" and actually called Hangzhou "the hell of eating and drinking". I think it's hemorrhoids. According to Su Dongpo's self-report: "I have suffered from hemorrhoids recently and groaned for a hundred days."
However, my younger brother Su Zhe is more troublesome. He got lung disease (that is, asthma) when he was a child. He once wrote a poem saying: "Young people have lung disease and can't help catching a cold. How dare they take refuge when they leave China and North Korea? "
Su Dongpo statue
The "secret recipe from the ancestors" turned out to be a failure
Su Dongpo had few white hairs when he was a teenager, and he was a patient with severe myopia, that is, "his white hair is too long to be disturbed by years, his eyes are sick, and he is afraid of wearing thick glasses." When he was demoted to Huangzhou, Su Dongpo stayed at home for more than a month because of eye diseases, and there were rumors that he was dead.
After a long illness, Su Dongpo paid special attention to collecting strange prescriptions. In order to treat eye diseases, he used "Longjing water to wash the diseased eyes" and "Huanglian to try to open the diseased eyes", which was actually cured.
Wang Anshi had a headache, and Song Shenzong prescribed medicine for Ouchi. Legend has it that it is one of more than ten kinds of prescriptions preserved in Song Taizu, but it has not spread to the people. Just radish juice, borneol, left headache and right nose, right headache and left nose, "instant pain recovery." Knowing that Su Dongpo was a good doctor, I stole it from him.
Su Dongpo is not superstitious.
Ouyang Xiu once said that some people were caught by the wind by boat and were scared to get sick. The doctor took off the sweaty rudder teeth from the helmsman's hand, scraped off some sawdust and mixed it with cinnabar, Poria and other drugs, and the effect was quick. Ouyang Xiu said: "Doctors use drugs with more intentions than that. At first, it seemed to be a child's game. However, it may be tested, but it is almost impossible to cause embarrassment. "
Su Dongpo disagreed and joked: "(in this way) burning ashes with pen and ink to drink scholars should be used to cure laziness;" By extension, drinking the washing water of Boyi can cure greed; Leftovers can be eaten; Licking Fan Kuai's shield can cure cowardice; Xi (sniffing) ears (earrings) can cure evil diseases. "
Ouyang Xiu laughed.
Su Dongpo later compiled all his life's books into Su's prescription, and later generations combined Shen Kuo's prescription with Su's prescription, including Maifanshi, Shenshe Pill and Zhibaodan. They are all recorded for the first time, and there is also a recipe for giving birth to three sons, which is an ancestral secret recipe of Youchao Valley and can cure infectious diseases. Wogu made Su Dongpo swear to the river that he would never tell anyone, but Su Dongpo made it public to save his life. However, this aspect seems to be invalid and has become the "failure" of this book.
I regained my vitality and showed my ardent enthusiasm.
When Su Dongpo was 8 years old (when Su Zhe was 5 years old), they visited Zhang Weishi, a Taoist priest in Qingcheng Mountain near Meizhou, their hometown, and got to know Neidan to some extent.
Tang people like to refine external elixir, which is highly toxic. Inner alchemy prevailed in the Song Dynasty, that is, through crossing the valley, qigong and meditation, the vitality of the human body was gathered into "Dan medicine". Simple and easy to operate, and has no side effects. There are famous Taoist priests such as Chen Tuan and Zhang Wumeng, giants such as wang pu, Chao Jiong and Zhang Zhongfu, hermits such as Zhong Fang and Li Zhicai, and ordinary people, such as Shi Tai, Chen Nan who is engaged in sewing, Guo Shangzao who is engaged in washing utensils, and even beggars, prostitutes and monks, all refine Inner Dan.
The effect of refining Neidan is hard to say, but a little sports content promotes the change of concept.
Scholar Hao Liang compared Han Yu's view of sports with Su Dongpo's view of sports in the Song Dynasty, and found the opposite: Han Yu didn't like sports, and when he watched others play polo, he wrote a poem and asked, "How can you sit back and do good?" I know you are in military training, but isn't it more intelligent to fight?
In a letter to a friend, Han Yu wrote: "The victim of Chinese character (horse) ball is in danger of falling and whipping. Small hurts the face, big hurts the body; Ma Chi's ball and court shook his heart and his bones. He couldn't get in, out or walk around the island so fast. The distance is three or four years, and the nearest one is one or two years. "
This "no horse theory" of "fighting well and dying quickly" is far less than Su Dongpo's "Talking about Teenagers" ... shooting tigers to see Sun Lang.
Han Yu quietly took the elixir of life for a long time and refused to fight for it under the pretext of "immortality is unknown" He died at the age of 57. Su Dongpo, on the other hand, loves to move, and can "put the boat at ease and serve the horses and chariots" ... When he was in a period of time, his face was rich and his hair was white, and he would have a black future. "
Optimism in disease
Su Dongpo's medical skills are brilliant, and he pays great attention to health preservation. However, his career was difficult and he was demoted three times, which affected his health.
When he first entered the official position, Su Dongpo was promoted quickly. At the beginning, it was eight products, monthly salary 10, salary 16 stone, millet 10 stone, and in addition, 6 silk was issued every year; After five years, it will be promoted to five grades, with monthly salary of 35 yuan, salary of 40 yuan and salary of 30 yuan, and 26 silks will be issued every year, which is enough to support more than 30 people. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the imperial court gave officials "extra money", with subsidies for daily necessities, and the government paid for hiring servants and secretaries. At this stage, Su Dongpo lived a well-off life and dared to speak out.
107 1 year, Su Dongpo was demoted to Hangzhou General for opposing Wang Anshi's political reform. His income has plummeted by nearly half, and he still has nothing to worry about. 1080, Su Dongpo was imprisoned for "Wutai Poetry Case" (falsely accusing the court of writing poems). After being released from prison, the monthly salary is only 4.5 yuan, and there is no salary, leaving only five stones for Su.
Su Shi ridiculed in the poem "Washing Children" written for children: Everyone is looking forward to being smart when raising a son, but I have been delayed by being smart all my life. I only hope that this child is honest and honest, and there is no disaster and no difficulty in reaching the public.
In his later years, Su Dongpo was banished to Lingnan. At one time, 3.5 yuan was paid only one month. Giving him two stones was not enough to eat. In desperation, Su Dongpo had to raise chickens and make Dongpo vegetable soup himself-cooked with leeks, radishes and turnips (that is, cabbage, kohlrabi and radishes) and steamed rice on it. "The cooked soup is rotten and ready to eat."
In his later years, Su Dongpo suffered from shoulder pain 12, and his left hand was disabled. "Sixty years later, his head went bald and his teeth fell out." Every summer, his legs are sore and swollen, and it hurts to sit and lie down.
However, Su Dongpo did not lose his sense of humor. Although he didn't mean anything, he called Dongpo vegetable soup "natural and sweet, without the five flavors of fish" and ridiculed himself that "Mr. is calm, so he is old and fat."
Tongda was optimistic, so Su Dongpo fell ill but did not fall down.
A lot of tricks, half useless.
Su Dongpo often does several classes, which may be good for his health.
First, taboo, often take the initiative to break meat for a hundred days. Usually, "you can't eat and drink a certain meat in the morning and evening", "having guests is the third" and "nourishing the stomach". Su Dongpo, on the other hand, often can't help himself, for example, "I have pink eye (that is, red eye), or I can't eat (sashimi). I want to listen, but I can't. " Su Dongpo invented Dongpo elbow and Dongpo meat, both of which are high-fat and high-sugar foods.
The second is "rubbing your feet." Cross-legged in bed every morning and evening, massage the soles of the feet 200 times, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis.
The third is to eat soft rice. Su Dongpo once wrote: "Soft steamed rice, rotten cook the meat. Hot soup, thick felt mattress. Drink less and stay awake. Take your time, fist. Empty the heart, the real stomach. Lose your ears, forget your eyes. After a long time, then it will be cooked. " It's good for digestion, but it's not worth promoting because of the loss of food nutrition.
The fourth is to rinse your mouth with tea. Su Dongpo once said: "I have a method, and I will cherish it forever." Rinsing your mouth with strong tea every time you eat, you will be tired, but your spleen and stomach don't know. Anything with meat between your teeth must be soaked in tea, and you won't take it off without worrying. And the teeth will be washed, the edges will gradually become dense, and the disease will heal itself. However, the middle and lower levels of tea are always used, and the upper levels are not necessarily available. It doesn't hurt to take a sip every few days. "The tea-making method in the Song Dynasty is different from today's, which is bitter and hurts the stomach. It's not a good idea for Su Dongpo to rinse without drinking.
Being demoted to Danzhou, he knew that he was old and might not last long. Su Dongpo deliberately added three tricks: once he began to comb his hair with a wooden comb and practiced moonlight skills; Sit in the afternoon window and practice sleeping skills; Get on the ground at night and come out of your body.
At that time, people mistakenly thought that there was miasma in the south, which made people sick. In order to get rid of miasma, Su Dongpo resumed drinking.
A generation of writers did not shut up.
In the third year of Fu Yuan (1 100), Su Dongpo, who had been exiled to Lingnan for seven years, was finally pardoned and returned to the north. When passing through Yizhen (now Yizheng City, Jiangsu Province), the weather was hot and he suddenly had a stomachache. "Eat will feel bloated, don't eat will feel uncomfortable. Sit up without closing your eyes and pay for mosquitoes. " Even if I eat, I feel weak. Can't sleep all night, just sit and feed mosquitoes.
Su Dongpo's own Mai Men Dong Tang (including Ginseng, Poria, Mai Men Dong Tang) once relieved his illness. A few days later, he was drinking with his friend Mifei, and suddenly he had a high fever and his teeth were bleeding. More than twenty days later, Su Dongpo died. Some people think that Su Dongpo died of dysentery and Maimendong decoction is ineffective. This is a typical misdiagnosis, which shows that doctors are involuntary.
Scholar Liu Jizeng found that Mai Men Dong Tang was included in Compendium of Materia Medica by Li Shizhen. It has a miraculous effect on the treatment of aplastic anemia (hereinafter referred to as "aplastic anemia"), which was called myelopathy by the ancients and included in the Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine (1977 edition).
Su Dongpo wrote a letter to a friend, saying, "One night's fever is hard to say, and countless people bleed like earthworms between their teeth. It is very tiring to stop at dawn. " Such amazing tooth bleeding, similar to before death, is likely to be an "aplastic anemia" attack. After using Maimendong decoction, the condition was temporarily controlled. Unexpectedly, in Yizhen, Su Dongpo's "aplastic anemia" broke out again.
The pathogenesis of aplastic anemia is still unclear, which may be related to pollution, radiation, immune impairment and heredity. In Song Dynasty, life in Lingnan was hard. Su Dongpo is ill, old and drunk, which puts him in extreme danger. When Su Zhe learned this, he solemnly warned that he could not drink any more. Under the introduction of Su Dongpo, Su Zhe began to concentrate on practice at the age of 42. At this time, his face is ruddy and his body is strong. It's a pity that Su Dongpo knew that wine was harmful and bad, but he didn't shut up. (Editor: Shen Feng)