Original text and translation of preface to Treatise on Febrile Diseases in ancient medical literature

The preface of China's ancient medical treatise on febrile diseases and its translation solutions are as follows:

Treatise on Febrile Diseases-Zhang Zhongjing

Original text:

As the saying goes: Looking at Yue's diagnosis and Qi Hou's complexion, we can't help sighing for his talent and talent. Strangely, people living in the world today do not pay attention to medicine and study recipes carefully. They used to treat the diseases of their loved ones and save the poor and humble people in order to protect their health and support their lives. However, in order to compete for glory and power, it is necessary to admire fame and gain profits, suddenly abandon one's external and tighten one's internal.

If the skin does not exist, how can the hair be attached? But when he died, affected by the evil wind, the baby was very ill and suffered a disaster, Zhen Fang chestnut; Let go of ambition and bow to festivals, admire witches and make wishes, tell the poor to die and give in to failure. A hundred years of life, with the most expensive heavy equipment, entrusted to all doctors, do whatever you want.

Du-hoo-hoo! The body has been killed, the god has been destroyed, turned into a foreign body, and sneaked into the spring just to cry. Hurt my husband! The world is in a coma, you can't wake up, do whatever it takes. If you are a suicide, how can you be a glorious cloud? However, if you enter, you can't love others, and if you leave, you can't love your confidant. If you encounter a disaster, you will be in trouble, living in the land of Eritrea, ignorant and wandering. Sad! People who follow the crowd are flashy, unstable, forgetful and selfish, and dangerous as an ice valley. As for it! ?

I have many people, and I want more than 200. Since Jian 'an years, it has not yet reached ten feet, and two of the three people have died, and typhoid fever ranks seventh. It is impossible to feel the loss of the past and recover the damage. That is, assiduously seeking the ancient method, learning from many schools of thought, compiling Su Wen, Nine Volumes, Eighty-one Difficult, Yin Yang Da's Theory and The Record of Pregnant Doctors, and differentiating the pulse conditions, so it is sixteen volumes of Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Although not all the diseases have been cured, it is ok. ?

There are five elements in the husband's heaven, which make all kinds of people transport and learn the five elements, and make the five internal organs, meridians, Shu, Yin and communication subtle and subtle, which is extremely difficult to change and impossible to explore. In ancient times, there were Shennong, Huangdi, Zeebe, Gaobo, Leigong, Yu Shao, Shao Shi and Wen Zhong. In the Middle Ages, there were Changsang and Bian Que; In the Han Dynasty, public officials took Yang Qing and Cang Gong; Since then, they have never heard of it again. Look at today's doctors, they don't think about the purpose of seeking scriptures, so as to perform what they know and inherit their skills, and eventually they will be smooth sailing.

In order to save trouble, when asking questions, you should give them with your mouth. When we are opposite to each other, we should drink soup and take medicine. The foot is not pressed enough, and the hand is not held enough. The people welcomed Fuyang (4), and the Third Department did not participate, with fewer than 50 people. We have a short-term unknown diagnosis, and there is no so-called waiting for nine days. The hall is closed and we can't see it. This is just a peeping tube. It's really hard for my husband to watch his life! Kong Ziyun: On those who are born knowing. Learning is learning. The more you learn, the more you know. I am a master of magic. Please speak English. ?

Translation:

Every time I read the records in Historical Records about going to the State of Guo to treat the prince of the State of Guo, and look at the color of the State of Qi, I never fail to admire his outstanding talent with excitement.

It is strange that those scholars who live in today's society do not attach importance to medicine and seriously study the medical skills of doctors, in order to treat the diseases of monarchs and parents, save the diseases and sufferings of the poor, maintain their health for a long time and maintain their lives; Just trying to pursue wealth, stand on tiptoe and look up at powerful giants, eager to pursue fame and fortune; Pay attention to those things outside the body and despise the root of abandoning the way of keeping in good health.

Make your appearance luxurious and your body gaunt. If the skin is gone, where will the hair stick? Suddenly attacked by exogenous pathogenic factors and entangled by unusual diseases, the patient was in shock and trembling when the disaster came, so he lowered his status and humbly hoped that the witch's male desire could pray to God, and the witch's desire was exhausted, so he had to return to his fate and wait helplessly for death.

Give the most precious body that can live for a long time to the mediocre and incompetent doctor for his disposal. Alas! Their bodies have died, their spirits have disappeared, they have become ghosts, and they are deeply buried under the grave. Others wept in vain for his death. It hurts! Scholars all over the world are in a coma, and no one can understand clearly and not cherish their own lives.

How can they talk about wealth if they despise life so much? Moreover, even officials cannot care about others and take care of their own sufferings; If you are not an official, you can't take care of yourself, take care of your hidden dangers, encounter disasters, encounter disasters, and be in danger. You are as silly as a brainless waste.

Sad! Those scholars who run around the society, chasing for superficial glory, do not cherish their bodies, forget that their bodies are dying for power and fame, and are treading on thin ice, which has reached this point.

My kindred population is already large, and there used to be more than 200 people. Less than ten years have passed since the first year of Jian 'an, among which three-thirds of two dead died of typhoid fever and seven-tenths died of typhoid fever.

I feel sorry for the decline of clans and the loss of population in the past, and I feel sorry for those who died prematurely and in vain. Therefore, I diligently studied the heritage of my predecessors, collected a large number of medical prescriptions, and selected books such as Su Wen, Jiu Quan, Eighty-one Difficulties of Yin and Yang, and Records of Pregnant Doctors, and wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases based on my own experience in distinguishing pulse conditions and syndromes.

Even if we can't cure all kinds of diseases, we may know the root of the disease by seeing the symptoms and signs according to the principles in the book. If I can use the relevant contents of this book, most of the problems of typhoid fever can be solved. The five elements of qi are distributed in nature, and everything is transformed through operation.

The human body inherits the normal qi of the five elements, so it has the physiological functions of the five internal organs. Meridian, collateral, mansion, depression and yin and yang meet and run through each other, which is mysterious, obscure, profound and mysterious, and its changes are really inexhaustible. If you are not a talented and knowledgeable person, how can you explore truth and interest?

In ancient times, there were Shennong, Huangdi, Qi Baishi, Gaobo, Leigong, Yu Shao, Shao Shi and Wen Zhong. There were Chang Sangjun and Qin Yueren in the Middle Ages, and Gongcheng Yang Qing and Cang Gong in the Han Dynasty. Look at the doctors now. They are unwilling to expand and deepen their medical knowledge for the purpose of learning medical classics.

It's just that they inherited the medical skills handed down from the family and always followed the old law; Looking at the disease and asking about it, I always devote myself to rhetoric, just to cope with the patient; After seeing the patient for a while, he prescribed medicine; When cutting the pulse, only press the inch pulse, not the ruler pulse, only the hand pulse, not the foot pulse;

The pulse conditions of Ren Ying, Fuyang and Cunkou do not refer to each other; According to his own breathing, the patient's pulse beats less than 50 times; The pulse time is too short to determine the pulse condition, and I have no vague impression of the pulse condition at nine pulse positions. The nose, between the eyebrows and the forehead, need not be examined at all. This is really not as comprehensive as people say "looking at the sky with a pipe". It is really difficult to determine whether an incurable disease is a treatable disease!

Confucius said: those who are born to be governors are first-class, those who learn to be governors are second-class, those who listen to advice from many sides are second-class. I have always had a soft spot for medical skills. Please allow me to follow the words "study" and "learn more"!