Wan Mi Zhai s medical contributions, Wan Mi Zhai s academic thought of the four essentials of health

Lack of desire is the first to nourish the spleen and stomach.

Wan Mi Zhai puts low desire in the first place of health preservation, which shows its importance. Lack of desire is a pure heart and few desires, and one should not overindulge one's desires, whether it is food or sex. Wan Mi Zhai believes that too much sexual intercourse will damage a person's kidney qi and essence, which in turn will affect the normal operation of the internal organs, and finally become ill in the bone marrow.

The loss of kidney qi and insufficient menstruation are the main reasons for the frequent occurrence of **diseases, so the first condition of most **diseases** is abstinence, that is, lack of desire. The second is to subsidize the kidney qi essence, and then prescribe the right medicine. In terms of diet, Wan Mi Zhai advocates eating in moderation, even if you like to eat food, you can't be greedy.

Although whole grains are the foundation of raising people, eating too much will hurt people's stomach. Only by protecting the spleen and stomach can we ensure the normal absorption of nutrients and achieve the effect of health preservation. Only when the spleen and stomach are healthy can women replenish qi and blood and prevent diseases.

Caution is the second combination of work and rest.

It is often said that life lies in exercise, but too much exercise will cause a burden on the body, which will hurt the body. Wan Mi Zhai advocates that "long-term vision hurts blood, long-term lying hurts qi, long-term sitting hurts flesh, and long-standing hurts tendons, which is called the injury caused by five labors." At the same time, people should maintain a good mood, and it is not appropriate to be happy and sad.

Wan Mi Zhai believes: violent joy and sadness, violent anger hurts the liver, violent fear hurts the kidneys, too much sadness hurts the lungs, too much thinking hurts the spleen. Therefore, it should be combined with movement and static, suitable for work and rest, but it can achieve the effect of nourishing the heart and liver, and only by not overstraining and consuming people's energy can the purpose of health preservation be achieved.

The third and fourth o'clock of the law are healthy.

Since ancient times, China has had the habit of exercising and eating according to the 24 solar terms, which shows that health preservation also pays attention to the changes of the seasons. Wan Mi Zhai put forward the theory of "raising yang in spring and summer, and yin in autumn and winter", believing that wheat and mutton can be eaten in spring, beans and chicken can be eaten in summer, vegetarian food and dog meat can be eaten in autumn, and rice and pork can be eaten in winter. In addition, adapting to the weather of the four seasons and paying attention to cultivating one's own emotions is also a compulsory part of health preservation.

Wan Mi Zhai pointed out that in spring and summer, when all things grow, it is the time for yang energy to vent, and at this time, learning etiquette and music, chanting and singing can cultivate temperament. You can also learn some dances appropriately, dance can promote the growth of blood in the body, is one of the effective ways to nourish yang.

However, the fourth priority is in the middle.

But the disease is about maintaining the body and resisting diseases. Wan Mizhai believes that instead of taking medicine after getting sick**, it is better to take some medicine before getting sick to prevent diseases. Therefore, eating some medicinal food every day to get rid of diseases and improve physical fitness is also an important part of health preservation.

Wan Mi Zhai also proposed that people who are good at health preservation should know these five points: mainly take care of their own body, be sick in time, follow the doctor's instructions, pay attention to the timing and dosage of medicine, and should not believe in the superstition of witches and not believe in doctors.

Even from the perspective of modern Chinese medicine, it can be found that the health preservation theory of Wan Mi Zhai is fully in line with the essence of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, pay attention to the prevention and early stage of disease, pay attention to the timing and dosage of medication in the middle of illness, and pay attention to the appropriate amount to avoid damaging the essence. In addition, Wan Mi Zhai combines its health theory with ** very well, believing that women are already delicate, with more qi and less blood, and it is more taboo to take strong medicines, and it is advisable to maintain warmth.

His family doctor, grandfather Lan Window Gong, Xingpo, Yuzhang (now Nanchang, Jiangxi) people, famous for the township of juveniles, regret early death. Father's name basket, number Juxuan, inheritance of ancestral zhi is still a pediatric doctor, Chenghua sixty years (1480) because of the desert in Luotian, after marrying a wife and having children, then settled in Luotian, with its art in the world, famous far and near, known as Wan's pediatrics.

Wan Mizhai was originally a student, and after failing to do so, he decided to study medicine. Because his family has been "helping the world with medicine" for generations, medicine has a deep family history, coupled with his hard work and diligent summarization of clinical experience, so his medical attainments are very profound, especially good at cutting the pulse and looking at the color, and some difficult diseases can be clearly dialectical after he diagnoses them. In particular, he has in-depth research on pediatrics, **, and internal medicine miscellaneous diseases.

In pediatrics, he summarized three kinds of pediatric medicine on the basis of the thirteen prescriptions of the family tradition, and put forward the policy of not taking drugs indiscriminately and focusing on prevention, which is quite creative. In terms of **, he clarified the physiological and pathological characteristics of women, and pointed out the insights of cultivating qi and blood and regulating the spleen and stomach, which has a profound impact on the history of traditional Chinese medicine. The "Wanshi Niu Qingxin Pill" invented by him is still a good medicine for children with acute convulsions.

Wanquan cure, in addition to inheriting the family learning, but also based on the "inner" and "difficult", intensive study of the "Pulse Meridian" and "Materia Medica", betting Zhongjing, Hejian, Dongyuan, Danxi family theory, and through the internal, gynecology, pediatrics and health care, medical skills are refined, noisy in the Longqing Wanli years. The medical footprints are all over Luotian, Qishui, Yingshan, Macheng, Huanggang, as far as Wuchang, Yunyang and other places, and there are many living people. Everything is not only a superb medical skill, but also a very noble medical ethics.

He denounced quacks for misleading people, opposed witch doctors' confusion, and pursued the principles of "the old and the old, the young and the young", "treating the sons of men as their own sons", treating diseases without remembering old grudges, regardless of whether rich or poor, sympathetic to labor, giving doctors and giving medicines, and was deeply loved by the people.

The county, the government, the political envoys and even the governors, and the magistrates at all levels often invited him to treat diseases, and he was twice informed of the "Confucian doctor" plaque given by the county and the political envoys. In addition to his clinical evidence, he was diligent in writing, and most of the works that have been handed down today were completed in his later years. Although Wan Quan gave up practicing medicine in his early years, his admiration for Confucianism did not decrease slightly.

He opened a school many times, taught students and apprentices, and continued to grow old. He also wrote many works on Confucianism, claiming that "he has written a book on the history and history of the law, and has written about it from a hundred schools." It is a pity that none of his Confucian works have been transmitted.

Wan Quan's family history, very early on with theory and practice to study the classics of "Nei" and "Difficult", Boji said, has a profound Confucian foundation is an important condition for his medical achievements.

Wan Mi Zhai (1499-1582), the word matter, the name is complete. Born on the bank of the Great River in Luotian (now Hubei), he was a famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty and was rated as one of the 30 famous medical scientists in the Ming and Qing dynasties by the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is rigorous in his studies, noble in medical ethics, practicing medicine for 50 years, with pediatrics, **, pox diagnosis department enjoys a high reputation, in the theory and practice of health care is unique, known in Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangxi, famous Ming Longqing Wanli years, and was later named "medical saint" by the Kangxi Emperor.

The "Wanmizhai Medical Encyclopedia" has a high reference value for clinical medicine, and there are 10 kinds of subheadings such as "Wan's Pediatrics" and "** Play", with 108 volumes. His monograph "Four Essentials of Health Care" has unique insights on health care, disease prevention, eugenics, etc., and the health theory he put forward is not only hundreds of years earlier than the World Health Organization's health concept of "psychological balance, nutritional balance, appropriate exercise, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol", but also has a more comprehensive, more advanced and more scientific connotation, and is "the first person in Chinese health preservation".