What are the more famous works of the Eastern Jin Dynasty physician Ge Hong?

In the book written by Ge Hong, it is recorded that orpiment and realgar will become crystallized after heating and sublimation. In addition, Ge Hong's alchemy has also made many simple medicines and prescriptions for ** diseases, some of which have been proven to be special drugs today. For example, turpentine can be used for arthritis, copper carbonate can be used for arthritis, realgar and mugwort leaves can be disinfected, Tantra (lead oxide) can be embalmed and so on.

Because copper blue can always grow and multiply bacteria, it can be **** disease. The arsenic in realgar has a strong bactericidal effect, so it can be used for disinfection. Tantra has the effect of sterilization and can be used as an antiseptic.

As an alchemist, Ge Hong made great contributions to China's medicine by discovering the effects of these drugs.

When Ge Hong was curing his illness, he advocated the use of simple and easy-to-reach prescriptions, and opposed the use of expensive and rare medicines. Therefore, he collected a wide range of herbs and prescriptions from the people, personally proofread and tested the prescriptions, and then compiled them into a book called "Yuhan Fang". Later, he had excerpts that could be used for emergency medical treatment, and practical and effective prescriptions and simple moxibustion methods were compiled into "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription".

"Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" is a work of ancient Chinese medicine prescriptions in China, and is the first clinical emergency manual in China. This book was supplemented by Tao Hongjing with one hundred and one poems, and was renamed "One Hundred and One Hundred Sides After Supplementing the Elbow". After that, Yang Yongdao of the Jin Dynasty extracted the unilateral side of the "Evidence Class Materia Medica" as the appendage of "Behind the Elbow", which was called "Attached to the Rear of the Elbow".

This is the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" that remains now.

Ge Hong left a lot of works in his life, including "Hug Puzi", "Jin Kui Prescription", "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" and "Xiliang Miscellaneous Notes".

Ge Hong's Hug Puzi is an extremely important work in the history of Chinese alchemy. It records in detail a variety of alchemy classics and methods, and records the most kinds of chemical reactions, many of which can be called the world's first, and is a very great contribution to the history of chemistry in China. The advent of "Hug Puzi" had a profound impact on the development of Taoism.

In addition, there are 100 volumes of "Ode to Stele Poems", 30 volumes of "Military Books", 10 volumes of "Legend of Immortals", and 10 volumes of "Yinyi Biography"; He also copied the Five Classics, Seven History, and the words of a hundred schools, and the military skills were short and miscellaneous, and there were 310 volumes. In addition, there are 100 volumes of "Jinkui Prescription" and 4 volumes of "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription". However, many of them have died, and "Orthodox Daozang" and "Wanli Continuation Daozang" have collected a total of thirteen kinds of his works.

Ge Hongqi people

Ge Hong (283 343 A.D.), known as Zhichuan, self-named Baopuzi, was a native of Jurong, Danyang County (now Jurong County, Jiangsu), and a scientist of the Jin Dynasty in China.

Ge Hong was born into a declining bureaucratic family, and his father died when he was 13 years old. Since then, his family's situation has deteriorated, but he is diligent and studious, and he tries his best to read and learn knowledge. During the day, he chopped wood and sold it in the market for money to study, and often studied late into the night at night, which was very hard.

At the age of 16, he began to read the Confucian "Book of Filial Piety" and "Analects", and worked hard to read the Five Classics. Later, he became a learned scientist.

In his youth, Ge Hong participated in the suppression of peasant uprisings. Later, in order to learn more knowledge, he went to Luoyang, but he couldn't do it, so he went around Henan and Hubei. At the age of 24, he went to Guangzhou.

Later, he married the daughter of Nanmo Youhai Taishou, and followed to learn the "fairy magic". After returning to his hometown, he devoted himself to cultivation and writing for more than ten years.

Ge Hong has written many books, mainly including "Hug Puzi", "Jinkui Prescription", "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" and "Xijing Miscellaneous Notes". Among them, "Xijing Miscellaneous Records" is a collection of ancient historical notes written by Liu Xin in the Han Dynasty and copied by Ge Hong of the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

While Ge Hong was keen on alchemy, he diligently studied medical skills, which can be said to be the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

During this period, he made the greatest contribution to the medicine of our country.

His achievements in medicine are manifold. He is the author of a hundred-volume "Jade Letter Fang", although this mu raid book was later lost, but from his preface it can be seen that this book is his "Zhou Huaxia Kyushu."

Among them, clean up the strange, pick up the leftovers, and select them. So that the types are different, slow and urgent, easy to simplify, all for a hundred volumes, the name is called the jade letter". Another of his medical works is "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription".

Later generations have made some arrangements, which are still circulated today, and from this work we can see the great contributions made by Ge Hong in medicine. "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" is also known as "Elbow Behind the Rescue Pawn", which was supplemented by Tao Hongjing of the Liang Dynasty and renamed "One Hundred Parties Behind the Elbow"; Later, it was revised and sorted out by Yang Yongdao in the Jin Dynasty again, and was renamed "Wide Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription", and the version that is now circulating is updated by Yang Yongdao.

Ge Hong cultivated and practiced alchemy and wrote in Luofu Mountain (on the shore of the Dongjiang River in present-day Boluo County, Guangdong Province), and left many works in his lifetime, including "Hug Puzi", "Jinkui Prescription", "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" and "Xiliang Miscellaneous Records".

Ge Hong converted to Taoism and was a devout Taoist who was obsessed with refining elixir and pursuing immortality. In this process, in order to collect information extensively, and also to find an ideal place for alchemy, he once "traveled around Kyushu". In his extensive and in-depth contact with the people, he deeply felt the occurrence and contagion of folk diseases, and often had to sit back and wait for death because of the lack of doctors and the lack of simple self-treatment methods.

He felt the need to compile a simple emergency prescription. In the preface to "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription", he said with deep emotion: In view of the ancient scriptures such as Zhongjing Yuanhua, Liu Dai's secret yao, Jin Kui green rank, and Huang Su, most of them are huge, and some of them are as large as a thousand volumes, which are very mixed and cumbersome, and it is difficult to find a huge work of this kind; In addition, the many precious medicines used in these writings are beyond the reach of ordinary poor patients.

Therefore, on the basis of his existing 100 volumes of "Jade Letters", he collected all kinds of simple and easy-to-use medical techniques and single-test prescriptions, and when he had to use drugs as a last resort, he also chose some drugs that were inexpensive and effective, and were easy to obtain in remote mountain villages.

Under the guidance of the above ideas, he compiled the "Elbow Reserve Emergency Prescription" in 3 volumes (later compiled into 8 volumes). The title of the book "behind the elbow" refers to the fact that it can be carried around the back of the elbow, and "preparedness" is mostly used for first-aid diseases, which has the same meaning as the modern "first aid manual".