Within the Taoist sect, the five skills of mountain doctors and divination are also collectively referred to as the five skills of metaphysics.
Traditional Chinese medicine refers to the use of prescriptions, acupuncture, massage, spiritual therapy and other methods to maintain health and treat diseases.
Ordinary people can understand and have been exposed to prescriptions, acupuncture, and massage, but spiritual healing may be relatively unfamiliar.
The most common so-called spiritual therapy is probably "Zhu You Ke", and many small folk techniques can be classified under the scope of Zhu You.
Such as frightening, breaking bones, etc.
From a modern medical point of view, it belongs to the psychological suggestion and hypnosis part of psychology.
From the perspective of metaphysics, it is a folk product that gradually merged with witchcraft in ancient times and Taoism in later generations.
"Blessing" means a curse, "Yu" means the cause of the disease.
The concept of "blessing" is very broad, including forbidden methods, incantations, blessings, talismans, as well as suggestion therapy, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, etc. It does not just wish the cause of the disease and cure it.
The cause of some diseases is known, but the treatment does not heal, which means that the blessing method does not work, so it is necessary to use forbidden methods, talisman methods, or combined with drug treatment.
As for authenticity…
Of course Chen Jingle didn't believe it. After all, Chinese medicine often killed people, let alone Zhu Youshu's superstitious and ignorant methods that harmed people. He only believes in Taoism and Taoism, which can really cure diseases and eliminate disasters. (Manual dog head)
The above is a joke.
As an adult, you should have the ability to think independently and distinguish right from wrong, and remember to make random conclusions based on hearsay and without practice.
The logic of ordinary people should be to use whatever is useful.
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Haicheng, Dabu Village.
Zeng Sanmei is 80 years old this year.
In ordinary families at that time, women's status was low, and many of them did not have formal names. Most of them had surnames and rankings, such as third sister, second sister, and fifth sister.
After getting married, the place of birth is added to the surname, such as Gaopo Li, Pingtang Chen.
Everyone she knew called her Grandma Zeng. There were so many people calling her, but no one knew her real name.
Old ladies like her can be found everywhere in the countryside.
He is not tall, has wrinkles on his face, calluses on his hands, and wears double flower sleeves. He spends most of his time sitting under the eaves or in the corner talking to people.
But what makes her different from others is that she can help people see doctors.
There is a difference between seeing a doctor and seeing a doctor.
Grandma Zeng is not a retired doctor or professor. She is not even a barefoot doctor. To put it bluntly, she is an illiterate peasant woman who cannot read a single word.
As for how she knew medical skills, it can only be said that it was a gift from heaven.
Do you believe it?
One day, a person suddenly appeared in her mind and told her that she was suitable to be a doctor and hoped that she could treat more poor people.
Since then, she has.
Of course, she never told anyone about how she got this skill.
This is the old lady’s philosophy of life.
There are some things that you just need to know. There is no need to shout about them everywhere. The more high-profile you are, the faster you will die.
She lived to be 80 years old and had seen too many people and things.
When she first learned this skill, it was the time when the turmoil of cutting down mountains and destroying temples was at its peak. Unknown how many statues of gods were smashed and burned, and how many temples were demolished and razed.
The once glorious and eminent monk has become a street rat.
She was a little girl, and she didn't know how she died when she was involved, so from the beginning to the end, she didn't dare to say anything, she just silently went up the mountain to collect herbs, dried them, and put them away for later use.
At first, no one knew she had this ability. Later, after helping neighbors to see her a few times, more people helped her, and the news gradually spread.
In fact, this situation is not uncommon.
Many inheritors related to metaphysics are like Grandma Zeng, who suddenly "enlightened" and then began to help the world and save people.
The most famous one is the Chuma Hall in Northeast China.
Grandma Zeng's ability to see a doctor is amazing because she doesn't even need to take a pulse. She can tell what the patient's symptoms are and what medicine she should take with just one glance.
If we insist on some scientific basis, it would be to look at a person's complexion to determine where the other person is uncomfortable.
I hope, hear and ask about it, but it already existed in the pre-Qin period.
Grandma Zeng's method of treating people's diseases is usually to take medicine and give treatment, especially to give treatment, because she encounters many patients with difficult and complicated diseases, and even suffers from evil and evil.
There are no regular doctors nowadays who can use Zhu You. They only check, give injections and prescribe medicine. She will inevitably give people a feeling of being nagging.
Therefore, many people secretly call her Goddess.
Including family members, everyone has a lot of opinions on this.
For example, her eldest grandson, who stayed in a big city to work after finishing college, would inevitably complain a few times when he saw someone coming to see her for medical treatment every time he came back.
It's nothing more than superstition and ignorance.
"If they are sick, they should go to the hospital. Isn't it a joke to expect folk remedies to solve things that doctors and professors can't solve? Grandma, you don't have a medical license. If people take your medicine and have problems, our family will go bankrupt. It’s not enough to compensate.”
The old lady always smiled at this: "No, no."
The eldest grandson was angry and helpless about this.
This person is old, she talks and refuses to listen, and she can't really scold her. Forget it, let her go. If she really causes problems, she will know she is wrong.
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In fact, Grandma Zeng’s heart was open.
Nowadays, many people look down on barefoot doctors, but in those days, when the poor could not even afford to go to the town health center, it was a great blessing to have a barefoot doctor in the village.
Many villages and even towns don't even have a barefoot doctor, and they all rely on some folk remedies passed down by word of mouth. Not to mention serious illness, even a small cold could kill you at that time.
Grandma Zeng relied on her medical skills to save many lives in the past poor years.
It is no exaggeration to say that within a hundred miles, many people of the older generation have heard rumors about her and are aware of her reputation and abilities. What is most praised is her character.
At the beginning, Grandma Zeng never imagined that she would be so popular. Word of it spread, and people came to see her in an endless stream.
Villagers from this village traveled to nearby villages and towns, and even people from other state capitals came looking for him.
You must know that this was an era when communications were backward and everything depended on shouting. Many people relied solely on their legs to travel.
Although she told everyone that there was no need to publicize it because the medicinal materials she could pick were limited, the news still spread far and wide.
In the 1980s, a middle-aged man pulled a wooden cart, with his half-paralyzed wife lying on the cart, and walked more than 150 kilometers to find Grandma Zeng.
Grandma Zeng took pity on him because she didn't have to travel hundreds of kilometers back and forth every time, so she taught him some of the pharmacological treatments for hemiplegia that she knew. Although he couldn't make his mother return to normal, she could still stand up and walk with crutches. of.
Later, the family would ask people to send some specialty gifts from time to time, which lasted for many years.
Grandma Zeng’s habit of treating people has continued to this day.
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There are mainly two types of people who come to Grandma Zeng for medical treatment: those who are poor, and those who are really desperate and want to treat a dead horse as a living horse.
In fact, the two overlap most of the time.
After all, there is only one disease in the world, and that is the disease of poverty!
Some people say, how much does it cost to see a doctor?
They may not even know what poverty in rural areas means.
Grandma Zeng clearly remembers that before she received the gift of heaven, there was an uncle in the family who died of gastric bleeding because he had no money to seek medical treatment for stomach diseases.
Obviously it only costs 27.5 yuan to save his life.
In the late 1950s, the monthly salary of a first-level worker was more than 27.5 yuan. Today, it is less than 3,000 yuan.
But the uncle couldn't get it out of his house.
Can't even borrow.
This was not an isolated case, but a common phenomenon in rural areas of that era.
Even today, the pension of many rural elderly people is only about 100 yuan a month.
Grandma Zeng, who is 80 years old, is barely doing well, with 240 a month.
Not to mention anything else, a CT scan at the county hospital costs 300 to 400 yuan, and a sling bottle and some medicine for a cold cost another 100 to 200 yuan.
Although Grandma Zeng was illiterate, she still understood how much money was available.
Therefore, those who come to her for medical treatment always help if they can and never charge money.
If the other party insists on giving, just donate some sesame oil money to the Jingzhu Temple in the village, something like ten or twenty yuan. If you pay more, I will probably be embarrassed to accept it.
Some people laughed at her for being stupid, saying that she was wasting so many opportunities to make a fortune.
You must know that who runs a clinic in the town. He only treats minor illnesses such as colds and fevers. He has bought several apartments in the city. How is it like her, who only cares about the treasure mountain without knowing it?
Grandma Zeng didn't care, she just regarded it as a sign of good deeds.
After all, this medical skill was not originally hers, it was Dagong who lent her hands to save the world.
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Yes, Lord Daodao.
Even after so many years, Grandma Zeng still felt that the person who taught her medical skills must be Dagong, who was often called Baosheng Emperor by outsiders.
Dagong is an old immortal known to everyone in Haicheng. He has superb medical skills and has saved countless people.
The Jingzhu Temple rebuilt in the village is dedicated to Daogong.
Grandma Zeng would go to burn incense every morning and tell Dagong everything about the previous day, such as whether anyone came to her for medical treatment yesterday, how many people there were, what the problems were, etc.
Maybe Daggong has noticed it a long time ago, but she just has this habit.
Thanks to her presence, the incense in Jingzhu Temple has never stopped.
In recent years, Grandma Zeng has rarely seen patients.
One is that medical conditions have improved now. Colds, fevers and even fractures can be treated at the town health center very quickly. Everyone gradually became accustomed to going to the health center if they had any problems.
Second, the younger generation is now in charge, and they are not sensitive to traditional Chinese medicine. Even if they don't resist, few people would choose Chinese medicine which is unpleasant and troublesome compared to the convenience and speed of Western medicine.
Grandma Zeng was also happy to be pure.
Although she is uneducated, she also knows that the fewer people who are sick in the world, the better. It doesn't matter if her dried herbs become moldy and rotten.
Maybe some people are looking forward to a big epidemic and making a fortune, but that person will definitely not be Grandma Zeng.
If she wanted to be rich, she wouldn't still be living in a mud house to this day.
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Many people think that Grandma Zeng being a "goddess" will at least have some influence, not to mention the loss of her descendants.
Not really.
Not only is there nothing, but the descendants are prosperous.
The five children she gave birth to all survived successfully and were in good health in that era when medical treatment was lacking.
It is a coincidence that after these five children got married, they all gave birth to a son and a daughter. They were both smart and well-behaved, and envied others.
Gradually there were rumors that this was the blessing that Grandma Zeng deserved for her good deeds for most of her life.
Grandma Zeng herself did not comment on this statement.
Although she doesn't know fortune telling, she also knows that doing more good deeds is beneficial and harmless.
As the old saying goes: "One is destiny, two is luck, three is feng shui, the other is accumulation of yin virtue and the fifth is reading."
She felt that she was quite lucky to be favored by the Great Master and teach her the art of miraculous healing. She should have accumulated so much virtue, so that she could bless future generations.
As for myself, I didn’t think about it that much.
This is the traditional and simple values of Daxia people.
Among Grandma Zeng’s many grandchildren, there is a granddaughter named Li Xinlan.
She is the daughter of the second son.
The little girl is very ambitious. She was admitted to the Fujian University of Science and Technology in the province for her undergraduate degree and to the Shanghai Jiao Tong University for her graduate studies. She just graduated last year and then joined a state-owned pharmaceutical company in Fujian.
Among so many children and grandchildren, Li Xinlan is the one who is most interested in medicine. She was probably influenced by Grandma Zeng since she was a child.
She was sincerely curious about Zhu Youshu, as if she could glimpse another world from it.
It’s not that I never thought about learning some skills from my grandma, but grandma Zeng never let go.
One is that they don’t know that justice and justice do not allow it.
Second, her personal knowledge is limited and she cannot teach it systematically.
Third, if you learn this, you will most likely be poor for the rest of your life.
After all, Grandma Zeng had a little selfishness in her heart. She felt that her hard work did not matter, and that future generations should try their best to live a better life. She never thought about passing on her medicinal skills and preparing to take them into the coffin a hundred years later.
But this time, Li Xinlan encountered something unusual, which made her feel something was wrong, and she subconsciously found her grandmother.
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Here's the thing.
Li Xinlan has a female college classmate named Zhao Ruyu, who comes from a remote rural province. Her family's conditions are very poor, even worse than those of Li Xinlan's family, who also comes from a rural area.
Fortunately, she has been working hard. Although she did not continue to take the postgraduate entrance examination like her, but directly graduated and started working, the two had a good relationship before and have kept in touch after graduation.
What happened this time started when classmate Zhao Ruyu sent a selfie to Li Xinlan.
A pregnant woman taking a selfie in the mirror.
It's Zhao Ruyu himself.
Judging from the swollen belly, it feels like it's more than six months old.
Li Xinlan was confused at that time and asked hurriedly: "What's going on? Are you pregnant? When did you talk to someone? I never heard you mention it!"
Although the two of them don't talk to each other every day, they still chat a few words every now and then and share their daily life.
I didn't expect that the other party would be so tight-lipped. As a good friend, I didn't even know that she was pregnant!
This is almost ready for production!
Li Xinlan was in disbelief and had mixed emotions at the same time. She felt as if she had been "greened".
The other person didn't say anything, but immediately sent another photo, which was a selfie of Zhao Ruyu himself.
The other party's words also made Li Xinlan confused again.
"This is what I looked like a month ago."
In the photo, Zhao Ruyu wears white T-shirts, blue jeans and white shoes. She is dressed in a youthful style. Although her belly is not exposed, it is obvious that her belly is flat and there is no trace of pregnancy at all.
Li Xinlan was dumbfounded: "What do you mean? You want to say that your belly became like this in a month?!"
Zhao Ruyu: "Although I don't know what the situation is, it is true. To be precise, it only became like this this week."
"Don't scare me!
"
Li Xinlan wondered if the other party was playing a prank.
Please, this is not a fun thing. If it was a real prank, she would be angry.
So she dialed the other party's number.
Got connected quickly.
"Hello……"
On the other end of the phone, Zhao Ruyu's voice revealed her exhaustion: "I'm so upset right now and don't know what to do. I went to the hospital for a checkup, and the doctor told me that the fetus is developing normally... This is the scariest thing. I even have a boyfriend. No, she is still the eldest daughter till now.
I wondered if I was pregnant with a freak, as my belly was really bulging at a speed visible to the naked eye. My intuition tells me that if I give birth, the consequences will be serious. Xinlan, help me..."
Oh my God!
After listening to this, Li Xinlan felt that her whole body was not well, and her heart was hairy and shuddering.
However, as a person who has been influenced by the witchcraft culture of southern Fujian since she was a child, and also has a "goddess" grandmother at home, she came to her senses and immediately noticed something was wrong.
Obviously this matter is beyond the scope of normal people's understanding.
First, he calmed Zhao Ruyu's emotions, and then called home quickly to tell grandma about the incident.
Among the people she knew, grandma was probably the only one who knew what to do.
After Grandma Zeng heard about it, her heart suddenly became tense.
If it is true as my granddaughter said, then the matter may not be so easy to solve.
"If possible, you'd better bring her over to have a look. Some things are difficult to judge in person."
It was this sentence that made Li Xinlan determined to help her classmate.
