Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture in Classical Literature

Xin Qiji in the Southern Song Dynasty was a great unconstrained poet and patriot in our country's history. His existing more than 600 poems are about politics, philosophy, feelings of friends and lovers, rural scenery, folk customs, daily life, reading experience, and the scope of subject matter, almost reaching the point where no matter, no intention, no words are allowed. Among them, the most interesting one is Man Tingfang, a poem written by him under the name of medicine. Meditation at night ",written to his long-lost wife, expresses his feelings of lovesickness:" The mica screen opens, the pearl curtain closes, and the wind blows away the agarwood. Leave the feeling depressed, the golden coat weaves the sulfur, the cypress shadows and the cassia twigs cross each other, calmly rise, and make a mercury pond. Even glancing over Pinellia ternata, it's cool through mint petticoats. A Uncaria last month, on an ordinary mountain night, dreamed of staying in the battlefield. She's already in pink, and she lives alone. If you want to continue to break the string, Aconitum white is the most Sophora flavescens merchant. Angelica, cornus ripe, old chrysanthemum yellow. " Twenty-five Chinese medicines, such as mica, pearl, radix Saposhnikoviae, aloes, radix curcumae, sulfur, cortex phellodendri, cassia twig, cistanche, mercury, forsythia suspensa, Pinellia ternata, mint, Uncaria, Changshan, Amomum villosum, Calomelas, Radix Angelicae Pubescentis, Radix Dipsaci, Aconitum, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, cornus, Radix Rehmanniae Preparata and Flos Chrysanthemi, are used skillfully.

Wu Cheng'en, the author of The Journey to the West, is also good at traditional Chinese medicine. There are many stories of treating diseases with traditional Chinese medicine in The Journey to the West, which are well written in accordance with medical principles. He wrote the medicine term "Xijiang Moon" with traditional Chinese medicine, describing the hunters who invaded Huaguoshan in the Monkey King War, and the scene of fierce fighting is vividly on the paper: "Aconitum was crushed by stone, and seahorses in Sha Fei were all injured. Ginseng is busy in front of Guilin, and the cinnabar is stained with blood. Aconitum carmichaeli can't return home, but how can betel nut return home? The bones lie on the mountain field, and the red lady looks forward to it at home. " Describe the scene of the fight vividly. In the words, the names of Aconitum, Hippocampus, Ginseng, Cinnamomum cassia, Cinnabaris, Aconitum carmichaeli, Areca catechu, Calomelas, Red Maiden and so on are used.

A Dream of Red Mansions is an encyclopedia of Chinese traditional culture, which contains a large number of descriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, involving all aspects of traditional Chinese medicine, and profoundly embodies the "I am in you and you are in me" of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional culture. The book is named after Chinese medicine, and there are eleven chapters, such as "Dr. Zhang Tai discusses the source of illness and poverty", "Picking up a unicorn and serving a child to discuss yin and yang" and "Hu Yong doctor misuses tiger and wolf medicine", which shows that Chinese medicine is in Cao Cao. From the perspective of disease classification, there are common and frequently-occurring diseases in internal medicine: Jia Yucun's and others' cold, granny Liu's diarrhea, Daiyu's heatstroke, and intractable diseases. Lin Daiyu's cough every year from the vernal equinox to the autumnal equinox is a bit like the popular "time medicine" nowadays. There is also gynecology: the amenorrhea that killed Qin Keqing's life, and Wang Xifeng was ashamed to say the leakage of menstruation and redness; There is also pediatrics: Baochai's fetal fever, Qiao Jie's acne and convulsion, which was only cured by taking "Lengxiang Pill"; There are even some strange diseases involving "Zhuyouke" and guiding Qigong, such as: the evil diseases of Feng Jie and Baoyu calculated by magic, and Miaoyu's obsession when she was meditating. From the perspective of prescription medication: there are 16 kinds of drugs such as ginseng in Qin Keqing's prescription in the eleventh time, and some tiger and wolf drugs such as ephedra and immature bitter orange used by Hu Yong doctor in the fifty-first time; There are more than 20 prescriptions scattered throughout the book, such as Ginseng Yangrong Pill, Dushen Decoction, Bazhen Yimu Pill, Zuogui and Yougui. The variety of diseases, meticulous division of disciplines, and numerous prescriptions can't be done by those who are not proficient in medicine, which shows Cao Shi's profound cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine.

Feng Menglong, a writer of the Ming Dynasty, once wrote a love letter of Guizhi Er under the name of medicine: "You said that I had a bad heart, and there was no proof of it. I'm so excited that I'm willing to make an oath to Wellington. Asarum slave thought, Magnolia officinalis you know, don't treat my love letter as a broken paper. Thinking of ginseng is the most hateful thing to leave, just because licorice is sweet. Until now, Coptis chinensis is worried about Iraq, and Angelica dahurica can't write all the parting thoughts, telling a gentleman not to be a negative benefactor. If you are Pinellia ternata and Angelica sinensis, I would like to wait all night in front of the southern star. " This love letter uses the names of Fructus Aurantii Immaturus, Cortex Lycii, Radix Clematidis, Herba Asari, Cortex Magnoliae Officinalis, Fructus Psoraleae, Ginseng, Glycyrrhrizae Radix, Rhizoma Coptidis, Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Fructus quisqualis, Rhizoma Pinelliae, Radix Angelicae Sinensis and Rhizoma Arisaematis.

There is another folklore. Cao Cao heard that Hua Tuo was famous, so he tried to test his skill. He casually said a four-character poem: "Lotus in the chest, Qiuying in the West Lake." The sky is clear and the night is bright, and you are new to it. Immortality, eternal health. I'm profitable and wary of my family. Divide by fifty or thirty, and the false term will expire. It's hard to mix a strategist with a broad mind. Bonesetter, honest and loyal. Lack of skills, the pharmacy is closed. " Hua Tuo wrote the names of sixteen kinds of Chinese herbal medicines, including Andrographis paniculata, Chrysanthemum morifolium, Gypsophila paniculata, Radix Rehmanniae, Evergreen, Millennium Health, Herba Leonuri, Radix Stephaniae Tetrandrae, Phytolacca acinosa, Radix Angelicae Sinensis, Radix Polygalae, Radix Sophorae Flavescentis, Radix Dipsaci, Cortex Magnolia Officinalis, Atractylodes Macrocephala, Myrrha. Cao Cao couldn't help being impressed.