"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic is the Acupuncture Classic."
""Shen Nong's Materia Medica" is a medicinal classic."
"Acupuncture is the main part, and medicine is tonic. Medicine is three parts poison. So if it is not necessary, only use needles without medicine. This is the general summary and basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine." Mr. Zhang said calmly, "However, medicine can be learned.
, and needles cannot be learned.”
"So, since later generations, the Nei Jing has been in name only, and the actual situation most of the time is that it has been shelved."
"For thousands of years, even famous doctors in the past, such as Zhang Zhongjing, Tao Hongjing, Sun Simiao and others, have been famous for their medicines. As for famous doctors, for the vast majority of medical practitioners, they have a way to learn medicine.
It’s doable, but there’s no path to learning the needle.”
"Where are Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Li Shizhen?" Xu Guangling asked.
Strictly speaking, Xu Guangling actually knew Li Shizhen and "Compendium of Materia Medica" about ancient Chinese medicine, while Bian Que knew about the small article that the old man mentioned when he first met Mr. Zhang, "Bian Que Jian".
Duke Huan of Cai".
As for Hua Tuo, Xu Guangling knew that this name was entirely because of Cao Cao's relationship.
The names of Zhang Zhongjing and others that Mr. Zhang just mentioned are not unfamiliar to Xu Guangling, but Xu Guangling is very unfamiliar with these people. I don’t know what works and achievements they have had, and even their age is relatively vague.
However, Mr. Zhang did not mention the three people he "knew something about" at this time.
"Bian Que is named after its needles and also its decoction."
"Hua Tuo, because his works have not been circulated, it is difficult to make a practical evaluation of him. In the actual inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, this is just a symbolic symbol."
Xu Guangling nodded.
The so-called symbolic symbols can actually be regarded as non-existent. Folks may talk about this person because of Ma Fei San and the world's first surgical operation, but for medical practitioners, this person
Famous doctors don't have much practical significance.
"Li Shizhen and the "Compendium of Materia Medica"," Zhang Laolue pondered for a moment before saying: "There is a contribution. But this book, and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" I just mentioned to you, are not
Same thing."
Is there any contribution?
Hearing Mr. Zhang say this, Xu Guangling was very surprised.
These words...
But since Mr. Zhang didn’t elaborate and Xu Guangling didn’t ask any more questions, he would naturally learn more about these things in the future, and in fact, these had nothing to do with his study of medicine. He asked Mr. Zhang what he had said before.
What he said: "Teacher, you just said that medicine can be learned, but acupuncture cannot be learned?"
"Yes." Mr. Zhang nodded, "This is exactly what I want to tell you next. Medicines are tangible but needles are invisible. Medicines can be passed on but needles cannot. Why can't needles be passed on? Because it involves traditional Chinese medicine.
The most fundamental and crucial thing.”
"The Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic is divided into two parts." Zhang Lao changed the subject and turned to this topic, "One is called "Suwen" and the other is called "Lingshu".
""Suwen" is a general introduction, an introduction, or a preface, although it is relatively long. But the main body of the book is still "Lingshu". Over the past dynasties, many medical masters, such as Zhang Zhongjing, etc., have mostly written about
"Su Wen" was inherited, summarized and developed, and the principles of Su Wen were combined with the use of medicine to become a generation of famous doctors."
"As for "Lingshu", they didn't inherit much, or simply ignored it."
"What's the reason?"
"Actually, it's just a sentence."
Having said this, Mr. Zhang paused briefly, looked at Xu Guangling, and then said with great seriousness and solemnity: "Those who learn from Lingshu must be masters."
After saying this, Mr. Zhang immediately asked: "Idiot, what is a 'pivot'?"
What is a pivot?
hub.
center.
Running water does not rot, and door hinges do not suffer from beetles.
This is what Xu Guangling thought of at the first time, and then the original meaning of the word became clear. Pivot is the rotating shaft on the old-fashioned door. And if you talk about it in a nutshell, it is a flowing and active system.
The immovable part.
The camp is made of iron and the soldiers are flowing. This "hub" is the "camp of iron and steel".
Xu Guangling told Mr. Zhang all the trivial things he thought of, and after the old man nodded, he asked: "Then, I would like to ask, what is this 'pivot' in the human body?"
Xu Guangling looked stern.
He thought of this sentence again.
The flowing soldiers, placed in the human body, obviously refer to the flowing Qi and blood, and the iron camp?
Is it a limb? Is it a bone? Is it a blood vessel? Is it a nerve?
Or does it refer to the so-called meridians?
The answer is actually self-evident. Traditional Chinese medicine does not talk about bones, blood vessels, or nerves, but only meridians. This is something even a complete layman like Xu Guangling knows.
This cannot be explained by the underdeveloped understanding of ancient times.
One of the most obvious examples is blood vessels. This is something that ordinary people know, and there must have been injuries and bleeding in ancient times, so "blood vessels" will definitely be discovered, but it has not been mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine for a long time.
.
It only talks about meridians.
And the amazing thing is that acupuncture doesn't hurt.
Can you imagine that a needle is inserted into the human body, sometimes very deeply, and it doesn't hurt at all?
To put it in a somewhat playful way, this is unscientific!
Well, science can easily explain this phenomenon, but the question is, how did the ancients think of inserting needles into the body? How did they find those landing points?
"Teacher, are you talking about 'meridians'?" Xu Guangling said.
In the past month, Mr. Zhang only told him some basic conditions of the human body and various pathological cases, but basically nothing about traditional Chinese medicine. Xu Guangling still had some basic understanding of acupuncture.
I knew it a long time ago.
Of course, at that time, he understood this partly out of accident and partly out of curiosity, and in the end he only understood it superficially.
Mr. Zhang nodded, "Since the emergence of glass, the discovery of the phenomenon of magnification, and the development of magnifying glasses and even microscopes, humankind's understanding of the world has advanced to more than one level. The entire modern biology can be said to be based on microscopes.
on the basis of.”
"Blood vessels, capillaries, nerves, cells and even DNA are all invisible under the microscope. And in this case, a very embarrassing thing happened, that is, the meridians mentioned in traditional Chinese medicine
."
"Meridian, where is it?"
"Since it is in the human body and is a place where needles and even sharp stones can penetrate, there is no reason why it cannot be discovered by a microscope."
"So, 'searching for meridians' is the first and fundamental topic of Chinese medicine research in the new era. Without progress on this topic, Chinese medicine will not be able to make progress. If this proposition cannot be confirmed, then Chinese medicine will not be able to play an important role in the modern medical system.
Stand firm in neutrality.”
"There is no doubt about the efficacy of traditional Chinese medicine. Whether it is acupuncture or medicine."
"The foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, the meridians, cannot be seen under the microscope. There is also no doubt about this."
"There is a huge contradiction between the two."
"So, in view of this, the country has made the search for meridians one of the key research projects in its fifteen-year science and technology development plan."
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