Sun Simiao's childhood ambition.
Sun Simiao (about 58 1-682) was born in Jingzhao Huayuan (now Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province). He was weak and sick since childhood, and the money for seeing a doctor was almost spent. This made him deeply feel the harm of disease to people and germinated his desire to become a doctor. He is gifted and intelligent. At the age of seven, he could recite thousands of words every day. At the age of 20, he was familiar with the theory of a hundred schools of thought contending. The imperial examination prevailed in the Tang Dynasty, and the children of aristocratic gentry and Confucian scholars who were born in poverty valued the fame of the imperial examination, not for medicine. Sun Simiao, on the other hand, loves medicine and doesn't regard it as a cheap profession. In addition, Job is a prolific scholar. He studied hard and practiced hard. Since he was a teenager, he was determined to devote his life to the medical cause, and he was determined to fight for relieving people's suffering from diseases. In order to devote himself to medical career, he refused the position of doctor Guo Zi given to him by Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, he declined the title conferred on him by Emperor Taizong, and Tang Gaozong worshipped him as a remonstrator, but he did not accept it. He doesn't care about personal fame and fortune, but only cares about people's sufferings. He collects drugs for medical practice and travels around the world. He treated people, and the people trained him to be an outstanding pharmacologist with unparalleled medical knowledge. He was very dissatisfied with the fashion that Confucian scholars only aspired to become famous in the imperial examination at that time, and despised practicing medicine to save people. He believes that "as a scholar in the ruling and opposition parties, in the name of insulting medical skills, he teaches children to recite short essays and make small strategies for career advancement." Strange to say, the healing technology is lacking. "From the perspective of the national economy and people's livelihood, he criticized the ethos of attaching importance to imperial examinations and neglecting medical skills at that time, indicating that he regarded medicine as a major event related to the national economy and people's livelihood. His vision was far higher than that of ordinary people at that time. He didn't go with the flow, but carried on according to his own ideal, thus achieving his career.
Amazing medical ethics
As a doctor, Sun Simiao carried forward the fine tradition of ancient doctors in China, paying special attention to medical ethics. He believes that a good doctor must concentrate on treating diseases and not act rashly; We should have sympathy and care for patients and take saving lives as our responsibility; Treat patients equally, regardless of rank, wealth, age, beauty, ugliness, closeness, nationality and intelligence, and treat them equally as if they were their own relatives. When dealing with people, you can't be swayed by considerations of gain and loss. Instead, we should devote ourselves to patients, preferring to climb mountains by ourselves, hungry and tired, and also treat patients waiting for medical treatment. A doctor should not avoid cold and heat day and night, not afraid of difficulties and obstacles, and devote himself wholeheartedly to the patient, while the individual has "nothing to ask for." This is a good doctor. In particular, he despises doctors who benefit from patients, and despises shallow doctors who are proud of their achievements and think they are "talking about China's westward journey". He believes that doctors should be impartial and modest. This noble medical ethics, Sun Simiao is a lifelong example, devoting himself to practice.
Popularize medical knowledge
Sun Simiao's medical skill is brilliant because he is good at learning from the experience of his predecessors. He studied the ancient medical books Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, from which he learned a wealth of medical knowledge. He pays attention to learning from the people and learning in practice. His footprints are printed on many famous mountains, and his figure often appears among the people. He learned a lot of medical knowledge and experience from the people. He knows that if he wants to be a famous doctor, he must study hard. From his personal experience, he realized that people who think medicine is simple and easy to learn are shallow people. They will never really master medicine, and they can only mislead others. Sun Simiao studied tirelessly all his life and found that others had good medical prescriptions, so he traveled thousands of miles for advice. This diligent and open-minded attitude greatly improved his medical knowledge.
Sun Simiao is not only good at digging and absorbing medical knowledge from the masses, but also attaches importance to popularizing basic medical knowledge to the masses. He advocates that everyone should master certain medical knowledge. In order to popularize this work, he thinks that a simple and practical medical book should be written. At that time, medical books were often numerous and hard to find, and it was difficult for ordinary people to buy them, which was not conducive to prescribing for illness. So he rummaged through the medical books of past dynasties, combined with his clinical experience and referred to folk prescriptions, and wrote a prescription for 1,000 yuan. In the third year of Yonghui (A.D. 652), he was nearly 70 years old, and the compilation of Emergency was successful. This is a medical and health book including the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and medical knowledge of diagnosis, treatment, acupuncture, dietotherapy, prevention, health care and so on. There are 30 volumes in the book, 232 volumes, and 5300 volumes in * * *.
Contribution to the invention of gunpowder
Sun Simiao is not only an accomplished physician, but also an alchemist. The formula of gunpowder is recorded in the "single crystal internal sulfur method". Gunpowder is an important contribution made by ancient alchemists in China to mankind, and it is one of the four great inventions in China. The gunpowder formula recorded in Sun Simiao's Single Crystal Internal Sulfur Law is the earliest existing gunpowder formula record. This shows that Sun Simiao also contributed to the invention of gunpowder.
Sun Simiao, with his noble medical ethics, penetrating medical opinions and immortal medical works, set a brilliant example for later generations of physicians. His great achievements in benefiting the people have won the heartfelt thanks of the broad masses of the people. After Sun Simiao's death, people in his hometown of Sunjiayuan, Yaoxian County, Shaanxi Province built an ancestral temple for him and a "Wang Yao Temple" in Wutai Mountain (later renamed Wang Yaoshan) where he once lived in seclusion. In the Song Dynasty, Yao Bei, a treasure with money, was engraved with some prescriptions in Qian Jinfang. His life and achievements are also engraved on stone tablets. And his book "A Thousand Daughters' Prescriptions" has also had a far-reaching impact, and some Japanese and Korean medical scientists have also been influenced by Sun Simiao. Sun Simiao was an outstanding representative of China medical scientists in Tang Dynasty and a master of medical achievements before Tang Dynasty. His brilliant achievements have won honor for the Chinese nation in the history of world medical development.