Sun Simiao, a famous medical scientist in the Tang Dynasty, was born in a poor peasant family in 541. He was very smart but weak since he was a child, so he became interested in traditional Chinese medicine. Sun Simiao attached great importance to folk medical experience, and recorded it in time during his visits and accumulation. Sun Simiao once saved two lives with a needle.
It is said that he met a funeral procession during a trip. After the procession left, a few drops of blood on the ground caught his attention. Finally, he learned that the coffin was a woman who died in childbirth. Sun Simiao smelled the blood and identified this person. There was still hope. Finally, he found the right acupuncture point and injected it. The woman's whole body twitched, she slowly woke up, and successfully gave birth to a baby boy. Later, Sun Simiao compiled his experience and prescriptions into "Qian Jin Yao Prescription".
Not only has his own experience, Sun Simiao will also study the prescriptions of famous doctors such as Bian Que, Zhang Zhongjing, and Hua Tuo. He has conducted detailed and in-depth research to improve his professional knowledge. When leaving the prescription, Sun Simiao discovered that one medicine was harmful, and it was "Wu Shi Powder". "Wu Shi San" can treat typhoid fever. Its raw materials include stalactite, sulfur stone, white stone yellow, amethyst quartz, red stone resin, etc., hence its name. It was first used to treat typhoid fever or eczema.
However, due to its hot and hot medicinal properties, it can invigorate people and even cause hallucinations after taking it. Therefore, "Wu Shi San" was very popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Under the vigorous promotion of He Yan, a celebrity in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, It gradually became a "trendy product" of the upper class and became a symbol of status and spiritual food for celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. "Five Stone Powder" was found in the tomb of Wang Bin, a wealthy family of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, unearthed in modern times. Wang Bin was a wealthy family in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Zuopushe, who once served as an official in the imperial court, Wang Bin not only took it himself, but also received it under his influence. Daughter Wang Danhu was infertile due to taking Wushi Powder. From the Wei and Jin Dynasties to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, many people died from taking Wushi Powder.
After carefully studying the destructive power of Wu Shi Powder, Sun Simiao wrote an imperial edict to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty explaining the dangers of misuse of Wu Shi Powder, and hoped to ask the emperor to order the destruction of Wu Shi Powder. With his efforts, Later, the habit of taking Wushisan was gradually corrected. Although Sun Simiao recorded this traditional Chinese medicine prescription in "Emergency Qian Jin Yi Prescription", before his death, he specifically asked his apprentice to destroy the prescription of Wushi Powder.