Interpretation of traditional Chinese medicine characters

I have been engaged in the research of Chinese pharmacy since university, and the courses involved include 7 chemistry courses, 2 physics courses, 2 mathematics courses, and the basic subjects of Chinese pharmacy. Since then, I have never left the profession of "medicine". I remember that the most beautiful scenery on the university campus is the wisteria frame and the peony garden. The peony garden in winter is empty, and it feels bleak. Occasionally, a few birds flapped their wings in the soil nest, emitting a trace of life; Spring is different. The climate in the north is getting warmer and warmer, and tubers are recovering. After several months of dormancy, red buds emerge from the soil and new branches are spreading. For example, a beautiful woman gets married for the first time, and the color will bloom in less than a month. I wonder if there were any varieties such as "Xi Shi Fen", "Jin Yi", "Zhu Sha Judge" and "Zi Yu Chai"? I remember the teacher once pointed to the peony garden outside the window when talking about "peony" and said that after the autumn dew, the peony in the garden can be dug up from the whole stem, boiled in boiling water and dried. This is Paeonia lactiflora, a female friend, and all the female students present like it.

From research, production to sales promotion, there is no difference between good and bad, only whether it can really solve the patient's disease problem. In ancient times, medicine was an important guarantee of human origin, including plants, animals and minerals, which gradually developed into traditional Chinese medicine and alchemy, and played an important role in the 5,000-year history of civilization in China. In modern times, drugs were divided into natural drugs and chemical synthetic drugs. The progress of Chinese patent medicine was far behind that of Japan and South Korea, and the synthesis of chemical drugs in China was basically imitation. In modern times, the development of biomedicine has entered a fast-track development period, and the speed and cost of research and development have been greatly reduced. In recent years, the clinical research of targeted drugs and immune preparations has developed rapidly, which will lead the mainstream market of drugs in the next few decades.

Back to the explanation of the word "medicine", Mr. Liu Shahe's book "White Fish Interpreting Characters" made an in-depth analysis of the word "medicine". First of all, from the traditional Chinese characters of medical writing, most people think that the traditional Chinese characters of medicine are the traditional Chinese characters of music, which shows that music can cure heart disease. In order to prove that the ancients didn't intentionally create Chinese characters, from the Book of Songs, where the earliest Chinese characters appeared, to Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi and Pian Yu, it was found that the earliest Chinese characters did not appear in the form of herbs, nor were they the so-called drugs now.

The word "medicine" first appeared in The Book of Songs and Zheng Guofeng's Qin Feng Yi. The article is as follows:

Paeonia lactiflora, a herbaceous flower of Paeonia in Paeoniaceae. Native to China and northern Asia. It is listed as one of the six famous flowers in China. Paeonia lactiflora is called "Paeonia lactiflora" because of its charming flower shape and bright color. Paeonia lactiflora can be divided into many varieties, such as Paeonia lactiflora, Paeonia suffruticosa, Paeonia suffruticosa and so on. It has been cultivated in China for over 4900 years, and it is the earliest flower cultivated in China. Peony petals are obovate, and the disk is shallow cup-shaped. The traditional Chinese medicine made from its roots has the medicinal value of spasmolysis and pain relief. Ranked first among the hundred herbs, it is known as "Hua Xian", "Flower Phase" and "May Flower God". Because it has been the flower of love since ancient times, it is honored as the representative flower of Valentine's Day in China. In addition, peony is an important flower in A Dream of Red Mansions, and Shi Xiangyun and peony get drunk and sleep together is one of the most beautiful scenes in A Dream of Red Mansions.

In ancient times, the so-called Paeonia lactiflora was the most commonly used because of its efficacy in treating diseases, so it was called herbal medicine together with Paeonia lactiflora. Although it takes the meaning of medicine, it is also the abbreviation of peony. The poem "Zhou Yang Man Huai Zuo Du Ming" by Jiang Kui in the Southern Song Dynasty reads: "Read the red medicine by the bridge, and you will know who to live for every year". What kind of thinking can you arouse?