First, the kindness of doctors.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Wu Youke, a native of Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province, felt unprecedented depression in the face of his home with ten rooms and nine empty rooms.
If it weren't for this unprecedented plague, he might be walking in the street with his medicine box on his back at this time. Wanli was born in a peasant family for ten years. When I was an adult, I taught myself several medical books and became a quack to support my family, which was a disgraceful career at that time.
During the Little Ice Age at the end of Ming Dynasty, He, a humble little person, went to the forefront of the times.
The small glaciers in the late Ming Dynasty were the coldest period in human history, and the special climate made the natural disasters in the Ming Dynasty continue. Since Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, droughts have occurred successively in North China, Northwest China and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, followed by an overwhelming plague of locusts.
For a time, refugees were everywhere, and the plague caused by human and animal deaths quickly spread to other areas. By the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, Jiangnan had become a hell on earth.
"Fighting millet for thousands of dollars, people eat people and die." Faced with such a tragic situation, many doctors are helpless when rummaging through ancient books. They can only treat typhoid fever with a dead horse as a living horse doctor, and the result can be imagined.
Wu Youke, who is in the front line of the epidemic area, found through investigation that everything in front of him is obviously beyond the explanation of typhoid fever, and new methods must be adopted to eradicate it.
Therefore, he resolutely stood up and shouted: "Keeping the ancient law is not suitable for today's illness, so look up ancient books with today's illness." Call on colleagues not to look for answers in ancient books.
In order to obtain first-hand information, he made good protection to the epidemic area to ask about the epidemic situation and record it. Even in order to find out the source of the disease, Wu Youke stayed in cowshed, pigsty, chicken house and other places, just to find out the scientific answer.
Second, cure the epidemic.
After careful observation and clinical treatment, Wu found that the plague was caused by "hostility". This kind of "hostility" is different from wind, cold, heat and humidity. It is not an illusory substance, but spreads from the patient's mouth and nose, and then is introduced into other people through gas.
Whether suffocation can cause plague depends on the concentration of suffocation and human immunity; Different parts are attacked by different rage, leading to different diseases; Although both human plague and animal plague are caused by rage, the treatment methods are different due to different species.
This coincides with the theory of viral respiratory infectious diseases in modern medicine and is also a major breakthrough in the history of traditional Chinese medicine.
After finding out the pathogen, Wu Youke developed a prescription against the plague: Dayuanyin after many clinical trials.
Dayuanyin is made from seven Chinese herbal medicines: Areca catechu, Magnolia Officinalis, Amomum Tsaoko, Anemarrhena asphodeloides, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Scutellariae Radix and Glycyrrhizae Radix. Anemarrhena rhizome nourishes yin, Paeonia lactiflora nourishes blood, Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi clears heat and detoxifies, Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch tonifies deficiency, betel nut helps digestion, Magnolia officinalis promotes qi circulation, and Amomum tsao-ko tastes pungent, which together can play a good role in eliminating epidemic diseases.
The development of Dayuan drinks has finally curbed the plague that has been raging for more than a year. But since then, Wu Youke has not been recognized by future generations, and his prescription has been silent for more than 300 years until 2003.
In 2003, the SARS virus hit, and the medical community all over the world was at a loss. Professor Ren Jixue, a famous old Chinese medicine doctor, applied Wu Youke's theory of "the pathogen of toxic epidemic invading the membrane" to restore the prescription Dayuanyin, and achieved good results.
Third, medical ethics will last forever.
After the epidemic subsided, Wu Keke returned to his hometown and wrote a 45-page booklet to introduce his methods of controlling plague during this period. This is the world's immortal medical work "On Plague".
It's a pity that Wu Sheng is ill-timed. He lived in the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty, and the times did not provide him with stable research conditions.
It was not until a few decades later that westerners invented the microscope. After more than a hundred years of development in the medical field, it was discovered that Wu Youke's "hostility" theory was exactly the same as that of western medicine.
Plague is the first medical monograph on acute infectious diseases in China. In this book, Wu Youke divides the modes of plague transmission into nine categories, which is the famous dialectical theory of "exterior and interior" and is still benefiting mankind today.
Without the help of instruments and equipment, Wu Can came to the conclusion that he had been ahead of the West for more than 200 years.
The second year after the completion of the plague theory, the Qing army entered the customs, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself in Jingshan Park, thus ending the Ming Dynasty. Can cure the plague, but can't cure people's hearts. Wu, whose home country is broken and disheartened, can go back to his hometown to practice medicine. From then on, he didn't care about the world, but only sought to benefit the village.
There are no eggs under the nest. In order to consolidate the political power, the commander-in-chief of the Qing army, Dourgen, issued a cruel "haircut order" and implemented the policy of "leaving no hair, leaving no hair", which triggered fierce resistance in Jiangnan. Wu Youke, who was worried about the country and people, refused to shave and change clothes and was executed by the Qing court. At the age of 70, his wife and son also threw themselves into the river.
Wu Youke's Juexue was lost. However, his feelings for home and country and his achievements in the medical field are just like the line in Daming Robbery: "The dynasty rises and falls, and only the medical way lasts forever."