The story of Li Shizhen s Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen s arduous process of writing the

Since 1565, Li Shizhen has successively gone to Wudang Mountain, Lushan, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions, and worship fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, coachmen, pharmacists, snake catchers as teachers, reference to 925 kinds of books on medicine and other aspects of the past dynasties, archaeological evidence, exhaustive study of physics.

Recorded tens of millions of words of notes, clarified many difficult problems, after 27 cold and summer, three changes of its draft, in the eighteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1590) completed the 1.92 million words of the masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica", in addition to the pulse and the eight veins of the strange meridians also have research. He is the author of many books, such as "Examination of the Eight Veins of the Strange Classics" and "The Study of the Pulse of the Lake".

In 1982, its cemetery Li Shizhen Cemetery (Li Shizhen Tomb) was listed as the second batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units".

Li Shizhen's arduous process of writing the "Compendium of Materia Medica" includes:

He repeatedly proposed to the Tai Hospital to compile the construction of materia medica.

Discuss. However, not only was his suggestion not adopted, but it was ridiculed and slandered for no reason.

Go out of the house, go deep into the mountains and fields, compare on the spot, and identify the drugs. He sometimes did not go down for several days, ate dry food when he was hungry, and spent the night in the mountains when it was dark. He tasted many medicinal herbs with his own mouth and judged the medicinal properties and efficacy.

In this way, he went through a lot of hardships and accumulated a large amount of medical information.

Compendium of Materia Medica (1578 AD) Ming. Written by Li Shizhen.

Fifty-two volumes. The author spent nearly 30 years compiling 1,892 kinds of drugs, with more than 1,000 drug maps, explaining the sexual taste, indications, medication rules, origin, form, collection, processing, and prescription compatibility of drugs, and containing more than 10,000 prescriptions. The book is available in full or abridged translations in Korean, Japanese, English, French, German, and other languages.

It is the culmination of China's pharmaceutical achievements before the 16th century.

The book not only corrects some errors in materia medica in the past, but also synthesizes a large number of scientific data, proposes a more scientific method of drug classification, integrates advanced biological evolutionary ideas, and reflects rich clinical practice. This book is also a naturalist work with worldwide influence. It is praised as an encyclopedia of China by foreign scholars.

Li Shizhen, whose name is Dongbi and whose name is near the lake, was born in 1518 in Wattita, outside the east gate of Qizhou, Hubei Province (now Qizhou Town, Qichun County, Hubei Province). Before the Ming Dynasty, this place was the junction of Yuhu Lake and Lianshi Lake, and the people along the lake often suffered from the disasters of the lake. Since the Ming Dynasty, in order to block the water of the lake, a dam was built here, and later it was called the Watt Dam.

There is a perimeter near the Wattrate Dam.

Twenty or thirty miles of rain lake is one of the scenic spots in Qizhou. In the east, there are Daquan Mountain, Longpan Mountain, Pingding Mountain, in addition to flowers, trees, bamboo forests, there are also all kinds of wild medicinal materials growing in the mountains, it is a good place with abundant products.

Since 1565, Li Shizhen has successively gone to Wudang Mountain, Lushan, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions, and worship fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, coachmen, pharmacists, snake catchers as teachers, reference to 925 kinds of books on medicine and other aspects of the past dynasties, archaeological evidence, exhaustive study of physics.

Tens of millions of words of notes, clear out many difficult problems, after 27 years of cold and summer, round and trembling jujube three changes of its draft, in the eighteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1590) completed the 1.92 million words of the monumental work "Compendium of Materia Medica", in addition to the pulse science and the eight veins of the strange meridian also have research. He is the author of many books, such as "Examination of the Eight Veins of the Strange Classics" and "The Study of the Pulse of the Lake".

In 1982, its cemetery Li Shizhen Cemetery (Li Shizhen Tomb) was listed as the second batch of "National Key Cultural Relics Protection Units".

Li Shizhen has always been a name that we can often hear, he is the author of the Compendium of Materia Medica, and the Compendium of Materia Medica has a very great effect on people nowadaysAncient stories, how to tell the story of Li Shizhen at that time, let's take a look.

Legend has it that when Li Shizhen first started practicing medicine, he made a big mistake and almost killed someone.

One day, there was a patient with a high fever who did not sweat and had a severe headache, and asked Li Shizhen to diagnose it. Li Shizhen rushed to his house, did not drink tea or water, and sat on the edge of the patient's bed to cut his pulse to see a doctor. He diagnosed that the patient was suffering from a cold and that he should sweat first, so he told the patient to decoct some ginger water to drink before the medicine was caught, and then wrap the quilt tightly and sleep, sweating, and the disease would be alleviated.

Li Shizhen prescribed a prescription and was about to leave, when the patient asked him: "Can you eat fish for cold?" As soon as Li Shizhen looked up and saw a snakehead hanging in the patient's house, he smiled and said, "It's okay to cook the snakehead with ginger and eat it, as long as you sweat." ”

Li Shizhen said goodbye to the cold patient and went to another place to diagnose the patient, and when he returned home after a busy day, as soon as he sat on the bench, the patient's son gasped and rushed to say that after he ate the snakehead boiled with ginger, his eyes became bigger, his face turned white, his tongue was knotted, and his breath was uneven.

Li Shizhen was anxious when she heard this, and thought: It's not good, this is a major matter of human life! Fortunately, at this time, Li Shizhen's father, Li Yanwen, came back from digging medicine, and as soon as he heard about it, he grabbed a few herbs and rushed to the cold patient's house with Li Shizhen in a hurry.

Mr. Li is also an old Chinese medicine doctor, he asked the patient to decoction antidotal herbs, and when the condition improved, he decocted the herbs to cure the cold, and in only three days, the patient was able to get up and work. "What the hell is going on? Li Shizhen asked his father.

His father told him that boiled snakehead with ginger could poison people. This incident shook Li Shizhen a lot, he didn't sleep well for several nights, and the scene of cold and cold patient poisoning was always spinning in his mind. He secretly made up his mind that in order to cure diseases for the people of the world and understand the medicinal properties of all Chinese herbal medicines, he collected medicines and practiced medicine while begging for famous teachers everywhere.

The hard work paid off, and he finally became a "medical saint" and wrote the "Compendium of Materia Medica".