On the day when Li Shizhen was born, his father Li Yanwen was fishing in Yuhu. Usually, he is lucky, but this time, he got nothing from several nets, and Li Yanwen was very depressed. The last net felt heavy when pulled up, and my heart exulted. I thought it was a big fish, but it turned out to be a big stone
Li Yanwen sighed: Stone, stone, I have nothing against you. Why did you play tricks on me today? This makes me more worried. Stone suddenly spoke: stone, stone, don't worry if you come to congratulate. My husband and wife are about to fall into the moon. What do you want? So this stone is the Rain Lake God. Li Yanwen arrived home just in time for Li Shizhen to give birth, so she named him Shizhen. That night, Li Yanwen had another dream that Tie Guai Li, a fairy, came to congratulate him and said, "When you are precious, you can diagnose all diseases. Be my apprentice and spread my reputation. "
Second, use mother-in-law to treat diseases.
Li Shizhen visited all the way, treated the villagers well, and was deeply respected and relied on by people. There is an old lady who has been habitually constipated for 30 years. Although she was treated in many ways, it didn't work. Li Shizhen used folk prescription and proper amount of morning glory as medicine, and soon cured her disease. There is also a woman with a nosebleed, which can't stop all day long. No matter how to treat it, it doesn't work. Li Shizhen put garlic slices on the patient's feet, and soon the bleeding stopped. He also collected this recipe from the people.
Third, the medicinal properties of drum flower
Li Shizhen not only read a lot of medical books, but also extensively referred to hundreds of classics, local chronicles and unofficial history. At the same time, we carefully observed the precious medicinal materials imported from abroad and at home, and recorded their morphology, characteristics and origin one by one.
After a year or so, in order to revise this cursive script, I resigned under an excuse. On my way home, I stopped at a post office, where I met some taxi drivers who drove for the government. They gathered around a small pot and cooked weeds with roots and leaves. Li Shizhen came forward to ask, and the coachman told Li Shizhen that it was common for their coachman to travel all the year round. If this herb is boiled and drunk, it will relax muscles and promote blood circulation.
This kind of herbaceous grassland is called "drum flower" or "spinning flower". Li Shizhen recorded the experience introduced by the groom: spinning flowers has the function of "invigorating qi and strengthening tendons".
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After studying at the age of six, Li Shizhen showed his intelligence.1Li Shizhen, who just turned 532 14, won a scholar, which brought great expectations to his father Li Yanwen. However, in the society at that time, it was so difficult to get a high-ranking candidate. Li Shizhen took the imperial examination three times in a row. The second time, due to overwork, I got bone steaming disease, and my high fever persisted, and I almost lost my life.
After failing twice, Li Shizhen still trudged on the imperial examination road, concentrating all his energy on successfully passing the imperial examination. In the 19th year of Jiajing (AD 1540), 23-year-old Li Shizhen failed the list for the third time, and Li Shizhen's dream of being a juren and Li's dream of being a juren were completely shattered. After three failed imperial examinations, Li Shizhen and his son were disheartened by the imperial examination system, and Li Shizhen had no choice but to leave the eight-part essay to study medicine.
In less than four years, Li Shizhen has become a doctor with independent medical ability, and his reputation is getting bigger and bigger, and he has become a famous doctor whose reputation has spread all over the country. 1556, the Prince of Chu, Hubei Province, suddenly became frightened, commonly known as frightened wind. Many doctors failed to cure him. The king of Chu was in a hurry and invited him to see Li Shizhen. Unexpectedly, he miraculously recovered after paying for the medicine. In order to repay Li Shizhen, the King of Chu appointed Li Shizhen to be in charge of ancestor worship in Wang Fu, and his official residence was Qipin. Three years later, the emperor suddenly recruited famous doctors from all over the world, and the King of Chu responded by recommending Li Shizhen to a hospital.
In A.D. 1552, Li Shizhen resolutely decided not to concentrate on practicing medicine, but to complete the great ideal of reconstructing materia medica. Li Shizhen spent 65,438+08 years on field investigation, and 65,438+00 years on three drafts, and finally fulfilled his wish of editing Materia Medica.
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