Qianjin Yifang is divided into two volumes. Changsheng spent seven days to memorize the contents of the first volume on disease diagnosis and treatment.
It is rare to be able to remember things with a photograph, but the most difficult thing is to draw inferences from one example. If you cannot draw inferences from one example, you will not be able to learn and apply it. If you cannot learn and apply it, you will just copy the dogma and follow the script, and sooner or later you will cause disaster.
The reason why people get sick is that the five elements in the body are out of balance. Using different medicines and stones to correct deviations is called treatment. However, this seemingly simple diagnosis and treatment contains infinite variables. Taking wind-cold as an example, For the same symptoms, men and women will take different medicines. If a man is positive, the positive medicine will be slightly reduced when taking medicine.
For the same men, different medicines are given at different ages. Men in the prime of life have stronger yang energy than young and old men, and the positive medicine will be reduced by a few points when taking medicine.
Don’t underestimate this reduction. A prescription consists of several or even dozens of drugs, which affects the whole body. If the amount of one drug is reduced, other drugs need to be adjusted, and some need to be reduced by a few points. Some will cost extra.
In addition, there are thousands of medicines recorded in the book, and the combinations are complex and subtle. It is difficult to describe this feeling in words. It is like having thousands of different soldiers under your command. When the enemy attacks, you have to prepare your own medicines according to the different types of enemies in the barracks. Select soldiers who can defeat the enemy to go out to fight. When selecting soldiers, you must not only weigh whether these soldiers can defeat the enemy, but also consider whether the soldiers sent out will kill each other and fight among themselves.
While studying, Changsheng often had a strange idea in his mind, that is, it is easier to kill people than to save people. People often say that medicines are three parts poisonous. This is true. There are usually only one or two flavors in a prescription. The main drug is the main drug, and the rest are all auxiliary drugs. Sometimes the role of the auxiliary drugs is only to restrain the disadvantages of the main drug, but has no therapeutic effect.
If you only consider the benefits of a drug to the patient without considering its side effects, the prescription may kill the patient.
People with low levels of understanding talk about things on paper, while people with high levels of understanding draw parallels. While researching prescriptions from memory, Changsheng also discovered another rule, that is, pharmacology and principles are actually connected. Everything has two sides, Yin and Yang. When encountering something, Changsheng also discovered another rule. Not only must the good sides be taken into consideration, but the bad sides must also be considered.
Take ginseng, which is great for nourishing qi and blood, as an example. It is not suitable for obese people, people with insomnia and night terrors, and people with weak spleen and stomach. If you only think of the benefits of ginseng when prescribing medicine and do not consider its disadvantages, the prescription will be bad. It may aggravate the symptoms. Patients who are deficient in both Qi and blood need to rest and rest. However, if they do not eat properly and cannot sleep at night after taking the medicine, it is equivalent to killing the patient.
If this pharmacology is used as a life principle, it means that something that seems good may not be suitable for everyone. If you want to give something to others, you must first look at what others need. What others need is a good thing, and what others do not need is a good thing. If the giver insists on imposing things on others with good intentions, he may cause harm to others.
A good doctor may not be well versed in the ways of the world, but he must understand the principles of yin and yang.
Changsheng brought a lot of dry food with him, and he didn't eat much. Half a fire a day was enough. The weather was dry and cold, and fire would not spoil easily.
In addition, since he grew up in a mountain village, he can look for edible grass roots in the forest. The most common ones are apricot leaf adenophora and Platycodon grandiflorum. The former is commonly known as old hen's chicken, and the latter is commonly known as bachelor's head. The rhizomes are thick and edible, and there is nothing to eat. Odor.
In addition, he can also fish and catch shrimps. He has a stone fire break on his body and half a bag of salt. His livelihood is no problem. However, he rarely lights a fire because he is worried that the smoke will reveal his whereabouts. He only occasionally makes fire at noon. When building a bonfire, use only dry firewood to reduce smoke as much as possible.
For others, he would inevitably miss home after being away from home for a long time, but he has always been alone, with only Lao Huang as his companion. After Lao Huang died, he no longer had any worries, and he did not feel lonely living alone in the mountains. He only occasionally waited for Batulu. People are worried and don’t know where they are or what their situation is.
Make sure to remember the first volume completely, and Changsheng will burn it. If these things are seen by others, his identity will be exposed and bring disaster to him.
Changsheng read the next volume very slowly. In the first volume, he had the mentality of promoting research and learning, but in the second volume, he regarded it as a verification and test. He cut off a piece of wood to cover the page, only looking at the symptoms on the right side and not looking at it. For the prescription on the left, I prepared the prescription in my mind based on the symptoms. After careful consideration, I moved the wood pieces, then looked at Sun Zhenren’s prescription, and then compared the two.
The prescription he came up with in the first few pages was very different from Sun Zhenren's prescription. Sun Zhenren was a miracle doctor, so there would definitely be no problem with the prescription he prescribed. The difference was naturally because the prescription he prescribed was flawed. With this mentality, he considered it After deliberation, looking for differences, no matter how much time and brainpower it takes, we have to figure out why Sun Zhenren drugged him like this.
This method is the most labor-intensive method, and it is also the method that makes the fastest progress. The improvement of Qihuang's technique can be said to be rapid.
Changsheng was overjoyed and also felt that there were two reasons for his rapid progress. One was his intelligence and hard work, and the other was the silent support from the Medicine King Sun Zhenren. Sun Zhenren was the real master of Qihuang. Only with such a gentleman could he make progress. Brilliant speed.
In the second case on the five pages, the prescription prescribed by Chang Sheng was roughly the same as the prescription in the book, except that a few of the auxiliary medicines were slightly different. This made him ecstatic. This successful prescription was not just a disease. A correct prescription means that he can accurately select a dozen soldiers among thousands of soldiers who can go out of the city to face the enemy.
From then on, each page of Changsheng was able to match several prescriptions in more than a dozen cases. The correct number of times became more and more, and the dosage of the medicine became more and more precise. From the initial difference of a few dollars, to the last one, it was even the same.
By the time he was halfway through the next volume, Chang Sheng could already hit nine out of ten shots. Even one shot that was not very accurate was no big problem. It was just that the auxiliary medicines he used were different. He used three-coin licorice, while Sun Zhenren used Two coins of skullcap.
Scutellaria baicalensis and licorice both clear away heat and detoxify, and have similar effects. There is little difference in which one is used as the main medicine and auxiliary medicine.
If it were anyone else, he would definitely skip it and not delve into it further, but Changsheng refused. At this time, he already knew a lot about the art of Qihuang. The deeper he understood it, the more he was in awe. Using medicine is like poisoning. There was no room for carelessness, he had to figure out why Sun Zhenren used skullcap instead of licorice.
After deliberation for a long time, I still can't figure out the difference between the two. Scutellaria baicalensis and licorice can both nourish the spleen and qi, clear away heat and detoxify, and their medicinal effects are very similar.
Thinking and deliberating is the most tiring thing. Thinking of the final immortality may even make him feel dizzy and chest tight. Even so, he has not given up. Life is not a trivial matter, and he must strive for excellence.
After thinking hard for a long time, I finally realized that the meridians belong to each other. Scutellaria baicalensis is responsible for the lung meridian, while licorice is responsible for the heart meridian. Scutellaria baicalensis has one more effect than licorice. It can stop bleeding. The lungs will inevitably be damaged when coughing for a long time. It is very effective to clear away heat and detoxify while supplementing hemostasis. necessary.
After understanding the reason, Changsheng admired Sun Zhenren deeply. A master is a master. If you don't accept it, you can pick it up at your fingertips. It covers everything and is impeccable.
By the time there were three pages left in the next volume, Changsheng had been able to hit ten out of ten shots, and the dosage of the medicine was accurate.
He couldn't remember exactly how long he had been in the mountains. He had already finished eating the fire, he had also eaten all the fish and shrimp in the pool, and the originally bare branches had already grown green leaves.
At this time, Changsheng knew that it was time for him to leave. If he didn't leave, thorns would grow in the mountains, the rain would become more frequent, and there would be more snakes and insects.
There was only one problem with one of the formulas on the last three pages, which was a very small difference. He continued to review it as usual, but his mentality was different. After being unable to review it for a long time, he even suspected that Sun Zhenren had made a clerical error while writing.
But in the end he found out that something was wrong with him. The reason why Sun Zhenren used White Poria instead of Poria was because this prescription was only suitable for women, and White Poria not only calmed the mind and calmed the mind, but also whitened the skin.
After thinking about the reason, Chang Sheng raised his hands and clapped his head. All those who have made extraordinary achievements in some aspects must have something special about them. These people must be respected.
After formulating prescriptions for the remaining illnesses, Chang Sheng also burned the second volume of Qian Jin Yi Fang. In fact, the illnesses and prescriptions recorded in Qian Jin Yi Fang did not cover all illnesses and difficult and complicated diseases, but for those that were not recorded in the book, He will not be helpless when it comes to symptoms, because the technique of differentiating yellows is analogous, and it is nothing more than identifying the symptoms and treating them according to the appropriate proportion.
Changsheng was ready to leave, but he still had some things to do before leaving. Naturally, the soldier's clothes could no longer be worn and had to be burned.
The wooden box containing the Golden Pill of Return to Heaven cannot be carried with him. He had seen the pills in the wooden box before. There were nine pills wrapped in wax seals, and the bottom row contained three antidote pills. , are all green, but the colors are different in shades. There are words on the partitions of the wooden box. The light green one is called Jiedu Dan, the green one is called Jiedu Spiritual Pill, and the dark green one is called Jiedu Golden Pill.
The second row is the healing elixir, all of which are red. The light red one is called the healing elixir, the red one is called the healing silver elixir, and the red one is the healing golden elixir.
The top row is three pills for returning to heaven and renewing life. The light yellow one is the pill for returning to heaven, the white one is for returning to heaven silver pill, and the golden one is the pill for returning to heaven that he must send to Ge Zao Mountain. Golden elixir.
After pondering, Changsheng took out four pills from the wooden box, namely the Detoxification Pill, the Healing Pill, the Heaven-Returning Pill, and the Heaven-Returning Golden Pill. The first three were prepared by him for himself. It was a long way to Gezao Mountain. To avoid encountering various accidents, even if he is well versed in the art of Qihuang, he will not have time to prepare the medicine to save himself after being in danger. These three pills are all patent medicines and must be carried with him in case of emergency.
He couldn't bring the Hanyue sword with him either. He didn't know martial arts and hiding his whereabouts was the best way to protect himself. Carrying the sword with him would do more harm than good.
He had a habit of hiding things that were not needed for the time being. He was unwilling to bury the long knife in the soil, so he found a dead tree nearby and hid the long knife in the trunk.
But after hiding it, he changed his mind. He couldn't hide it in a dead tree. If it was chopped down by a villager, wouldn't the long knife be lost? It had to be hidden in a living tree. Hanyue's long knife was extremely sharp and could easily cut through the tree trunk. .
In addition to the long sword wooden box, he also had a flute on him, which was given to him by Takeda Mayumi. He couldn't take it with him at the moment, so he hid it in the tree with the long sword wooden box.
After hiding his things, Changsheng slept in the cave for the last night. At dawn, he set out on the road...
