Cancer is the name of the West, in ancient China, what did Chinese medicine call it?

For different diseases, ancient Chinese medicine practitioners had different names for cancer. During the Song Dynasty, in the "General Records of Shengji" compiled by the Tai Hospital, malignant tumors in the human abdomen were called"Symptomatic scabies"。During the Ming Dynasty, Chen Shigong, a famous Chinese medicine scientist, called "lip cancer" "cocoon lips".

During the Qing Dynasty, people called the malignant tumors of the human body "lost camp" or "lost glory", symbolizing that people with cancer slowly lost their glory. In Chinese medicine, there is no universal name for "cancer", but there are different descriptions according to different diseases.

In the "General Record of Shengji" compiled by Shitai Hospital in the Song Dynasty, the malignant tumor in the human abdomen was called"Symptomatic scabies"。During the Ming Dynasty, the famous Chinese medicine scientist Chen Shigong called "lip cancer" "cocoon lips". In the Qing Dynasty, the malignant tumors of the human body were called "loss of camp" or "loss of glory".

In the "Yellow Emperor's Neijing", there is a record of cancer in the modern sense: "The Yellow Emperor said: The beginning of accumulation is the beginning, until it has been completed, what can I do?" "Accumulation" refers to the stubborn disease formed by long-term accumulation for various reasons. And "cancer" was recorded in the famous doctor Yang Shiying of the Song Dynasty in "Renzhai Zhizhi Fang": "Cancer patients are high and deep, and the shape of caves is like a cave, and they are tired and ......."The poisonous roots are hidden deeply, and the perforations are perforated".

Rock is the same as cancer, which is actually what we now call "tumor".

Traditional Chinese medicine practitioners call cancer a loss of honor, which means that after having cancer, it will wither like a plant or tree.

There have been cancer patients in our country for a long time. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, the ancients did not understand the name of tumors, so they called them "swollen", and Zhou Litianguan Youyun "ulcer medicine specializes in treating swollen ulcers, ulcers, gold wounds, fractures and other diseases". The so-called "ulcer doctor" in it is today's surgeon, and "ulcer" refers to cancer.

Cancer was called a terminal disease in ancient times, because cancer is an incurable disease, and basically everyone who gets cancer will die.

No cancer was found in ancient China, but if there was cancer at that time, it must have been said to be incurable.

Not to mention ancient times, in China in 1970 (when I was only a few years old), the name for esophageal cancer was "esophageal disease". At that time, I was still very naïve and didn't understand, and I understood that it was "stone knife disease" (people in my hometown call kitchen knives called stone knives), and I thought it was a very common disease. However, from the words of the elders, I felt that "stone knife disease is not an ordinary disease", but a very serious disease.

Later, I saw that an elderly person in the neighborhood was suffering from esophageal cancer and could not eat and starved to death, so I realized the horror and cruelty of this disease.

Of course, at that time, the number of people suffering from cancer did not seem to be as high as it is now.

In 1970, tuberculosis and lung cancer were collectively referred to as "tuberculosis" or "tuberculosis". At that time, there was more tuberculosis and less lung cancer. My childhood impression was that the number of people in my neighborhood who died of "stone knife disease" and "liver disease" seemed to be higher than that of tuberculosis.

Around 1970, I don't know if it was because of the small population or other reasons, very few people died in the neighborhood around my hometown. Now, for some reason, it is said that the average life expectancy is improving, but the number of accidental deaths and deaths due to illness is really quite a lot, there are car accidents, there are people who die from work-related accidents, and there are not a few people who die of sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, "There are almost no such deaths around 1970", and there are not a few cases of death from various cancers. There are many classmates and neighbors of the same age as me in my hometown, some of whom are better than me in terms of work status and living conditions, some in their thirties and forties and in their fifties, and the flower of life has withered prematurely, which is a pity!

There are no young and old people on Huangquan Road, and everyone wants to live to be 100 years old, but the life expectancy is really not as good as they want. Live in the moment and enjoy today. Tomorrow's event, luck or accident, which comes first? It's really bad**!

Of course, it is an indisputable fact that the level of medical care is improving day by day. Even so, there are not a few celebrities with hundreds of millions of family fortunes who have died young. Don't they look down on the sick?!

It's useless, rich people pile up a mountain of banknotes, and they can't exchange it for one more day of longevity.

Life and death have fate, wealth is in the sky, the same is true in ancient and modern times.

It is called tuberculosis, and in ancient times, the cancer that people usually got was lung cancer. Because they all eat something greasy.

That is blockage, which is a manifestation of poor body access, and you need to clean up the blockage of the body.

Therefore, in ancient China, cancer was also called "rock" but "inflammation", and it was easy to confuse the two, so in the Song Dynasty, in order to distinguish the two expressions, the word "cancer" had already appeared at that time.

The general name is incurable, and there is no unified name, because in ancient times, medical technology was relatively backward, and cancer was incurable.

Because of the strength of ancient medicine in China, only visible tumors can be seen, and ancient people would call tumors "rocks", such as breast cancer.

In ancient times, it was called palpitations, so I think the charm of medicine is great.

In ancient times, it was called palpitations, and then it was called completely different for different conditions, and high blood pressure was called head wind in ancient times.

In ancient times, it was commonly referred to as palpitations or head wind. Different conditions are called differently.

Hua Tuo of the Eastern Han Dynasty pioneered the operation under anesthesia ** "accumulation" in the body (including tumor diseases), and pointed out in the "Zhongzang Sutra: On Carbuncle Sores and Swelling": "The carbuncle sores and swelling of the husband are also made by the five internal organs and six internal organs to store poison and not flow, and it is not only due to the congestion of Rongwei." It is believed that the onset of tumors is not only caused by the blockage of the qi of the camp and health, but more importantly, it is caused by the "accumulation of toxin" in the viscera.

At that time, they were all called tuberculosis, and they thought that all diseases were due to lung problems, which is why you will find that so many people have died because of tuberculosis in history.