"Doctors should practice their profession! Those who practice medicine must have rich experience in treating diseases and saving people. The mountain chief uses Datang United Medical Center to cooperate with the teaching of the medical school. How wonderful! How wonderful!"
Dr. Wang sighed while stroking his palms.
"Actually, in addition to "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions", I think Daozhang Sun and the two gentlemen can consider compiling a medical book introducing the medicinal properties of herbal medicines for students to refer to when practicing medicine in the future~"
After handing "Thousands of Gold Essential Prescriptions" to Sun Simiao, Li Zexuan suddenly had another idea in his mind, so he looked at Sun Simiao and others and said.
"Herbal medicinal properties~?"
Sun Simiao frowned and said: "Xiao Xuan, the medicinal properties of most herbal medicines are recorded in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica". Why bother and write a book~?"
"Shen Nong's Materia Medica", also known as "Ben Cao Jing" or "Ben Jing", is one of the four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine. It is the earliest traditional Chinese medicine work in China. It originated from Shennong's family and was passed down orally from generation to generation. It was compiled into a book during the Eastern Han Dynasty. , the book was not written at one time, and the author is not one person. It was collected, summarized, and organized by many medical scientists in the Qin and Han Dynasties through their pharmacological experience at that time!
Li Zexuan shook his head. Of course he knew about the existence of "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", but his intention was not to write another "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", but to write a medical book similar to "Compendium of Materia Medica". He pondered for a moment, said:
"Daozhang Sun, although the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" records the medicinal properties of a large number of medicinal materials, its classification method is a bit rough, and the records of many of the herbal medicines have been out of date for a long time. It is inevitable that there will be some errors! For those who practice medicine, a A small mistake may cost the patient's life!
So I would like to ask the three of you to take time in the future. On the one hand, they will proofread and revise the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and correct the errors in it; on the other hand, they will subdivide the herbal medicines recorded in the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" into categories according to the outline. Forming a complete and detailed herbal reference book!
Just like the "Datang Dictionary" has the same effect on literati, the herbal medical book revised by the three people in the future will be the herbal pharmacopoeia of future doctors of the Tang Dynasty. Doctors can quickly check the medicinal properties and functions of a certain medicinal material through this book~!
For example, three people can divide drugs into different parts according to their attributes, and each part can be further divided into several categories..."
Li Zexuan had never read the "Compendium of Materia Medica" in his previous life, so he would not have complete memories in his mind. However, even if he had read it completely, he would not copy a copy of the "Compendium of Materia Medica" to Sun Simiao and the others!
"Compendium of Materia Medica" had a very high status in Li Zexuan's previous life. It not only had corresponding texts in primary school textbooks, but was also called the Encyclopedia of Ancient China by Darwin. However, in fact, the academic contribution of "Compendium of Materia Medica" to traditional Chinese medicine is very low. Far from being as highly praised as primary school textbooks and Darwin.
The historical background at that time was that Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Gold Prescriptions" contained a large number of Taoist yin and yang concepts, while Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" was more botany-oriented. Darwin certainly did not understand the Taoist yin and yang theory, but he felt that the "Compendium of Materia Medica" contained Some of his views were more supportive of his own theory of evolution, so they were widely publicized and appreciated in the West!
The custom in that era of "We Dynasty" was that foreign monks liked to recite sutras, and foreigners said it was good, so naturally it was excellent, so the status of "Compendium of Materia Medica" was infinitely elevated!
It can be said that the fame of "Compendium of Materia Medica" is the result of deliberate hype by foreigners in order to support its academic theory. In order to cater to this hype, the editors of the textbook at that time carried out another false packaging, packaging Li Shizhen as A great herbalist!
But in fact, Li Shizhen's contribution to Materia Medica was far less than his contribution to pulse diagnosis. He initially became famous based on two medical books, "Binhu Pulse Jue" and "Eight Meridians of Qi Jing", rather than "Compendium of Materia Medica". Outline!
In his previous life, Li Zexuan had a friend from the Capital University School of Medicine who said that among the traditional Chinese medicines recorded in "Chinese Materia Medica", only the three herbs are from the "Compendium of Materia Medica", and most of the rest are from "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and "Compendium of Materia Medica" (written by Liang Tao Hongjing of the Southern Dynasty) , that is to say, in terms of commonly used traditional Chinese medicines, Chinese medicine is basically still relying on the legacy of Shennong Yandi and Tao Hongjing!
And although there are as many as 1892 kinds of medicines recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica", at that time Li Shizhen was just a poor country doctor who didn't even have a published book. Naturally, it was impossible for him to have the financial resources and ability to verify these 1892 kinds of medicines one by one. As a result, many records of the medicinal properties of drugs are untrue. In the end, the "Compendium of Materia Medica" appeared in such absurd prescriptions as "using foot wraps to treat typhoid fever" and "using slings to treat madness"!
However, this does not mean that the "Compendium of Materia Medica" is without merit. Its greatest contribution is to set a precedent in the classification method of herbal medicines, using artificial classification methods. Compared with the spicy and primitive classification methods in previous pharmacological masterpieces, "Compendium of Materia Medica" I don’t know how many times our artificial classification has become more advanced and scientific.
Li Shizhen divided all medicines into 16 parts in "Compendium of Materia Medica": water part, fire part, earth part, stone part, grass part, grain part, vegetable part, fruit part, wood part, server part, insect part, and scale part. Department, medial department, poultry department, animal department, and human department. Each part is divided into several categories, a total of 62 categories. Among them, there are 1,195 species of plants, 340 species of animals, and 357 species of minerals.
With his classification, it is extremely convenient for doctors to check the pharmacological properties of a certain traditional Chinese medicine. It is as convenient as looking up rare words in the "Datang Dictionary"! So what Li Zexuan wants to do is to recommend this excellent herbal classification method in "Compendium of Materia Medica" to Sun Simiao and others, and let them use this classification method to sort out some previous herbal medicine masterpieces to form a book similar to "Compendium of Materia Medica" Compendium" is a doctor's reference book!
I believe that with the ability of these three people, the quality of the medical books compiled will not be lower than Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica"!
"Chief Shan! If we use this classification method to organize the previously recorded herbs into a book, it will undoubtedly be more convenient and faster for students to learn pharmacology!"
After listening to Li Zexuan's detailed explanation, Dr. Qin and Dr. Wang looked at each other and exclaimed in admiration.
"Well! Xiaoxuan, your herbal classification method is indeed superior and can be clearly understood at a glance! Pindao will take time to compile such a medical book for the medical school in the future~!"
Sun Simiao also nodded and praised, then he changed the topic and said with a smile: "But if Pindao remembers correctly, Xiaoxuan, you promised to help Pindao make a tool that can see subtle things last year! But this is not the case. It’s been almost a year, Xiaoxuan, have you forgotten this?”
"Ah~?"
Li Zexuan was stunned. He didn't expect Lao Sun to want to collect debts from him. Ahem!
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Second update!
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