Li Shizhen is a famous medical expert in ancient China. His " Compendium of Materia Medica " has also become a precious book of Chinese medicine.
There have been many records and legends about Li Shizhen in history, and everyone is familiar with them. Today we are going to talk about the philosophy that occupies the most important position in Li Shizhen's medical system.
This is the idea of " Zhouyi ". It can be said that the idea of is almost everywhere in Li Shizhen's works. He is an expert who highly combines easy learning with medicine.
Today we will talk about the relationship between Li Shizhen and Zhouyi.
At that time, the combination of the six lines and eight trigrams and Chinese medicine, the core part of the Book of Changes, had not yet been completed. The five elements of Yin and Yang connected Yi and medicine.
With the development of the times, in the Tang and Song dynasties, the "Book of Changes" and Chinese medicine began to be highly integrated.In his works, the thought of Yi learning is very strong.
The complete integration of "Zhouyi" with traditional Chinese medicine is still a batch of , the representative of Sun Yuespan, and the representative of the Ming Dynasty span 3 Zhang_span. At home, he combined the Eight Diagrams and Lines of Zhouyi with Chinese Medicine, and proposed "I don't know the Yi but not the great doctor."
From then on, "Zhouyi" and traditional Chinese medicine are closely related, and they are almost indistinguishable from each other.
Li Shizhen really inherited this idea.
Li Shizhen was born in a medical family, and his father was a court doctor. In the early years, Li Shizhen planned to take the imperial examination career, but it didn't go well, so she turned to study medicine.
He became famous for seeing the prince’s doctor, and was later recommended to enter the Taiyuan Hospital. After several years in Taiyuan Hospital, Li Shizhen was able to read the books and collected a large amount of Chinese Medicine data.
Relying on his talents, Li Shizhen resigned and went back to the hometown to visit the hometown, set up medical prescriptions for his own medicine, and traveled through the four prescriptions for the hospital.
After years of hard work, "Compendium of Materia Medica" is finally completed.
In this emperor masterpiece,Li Shizhen gave full play to the thoughts of "The Book of Changes". He used the five acts of gold, wood, water, fire and earth to classify a wide range of Chinese medicines. Based on the yin and yang belonging to the Eight Diagrams, different parts of the human body, different attributes of medicinal materials, and even the attributes of everything are divided.
At the same time, he used the idea of yin and yang conversion and mutual opposition to explain the violent and soft nature of Chinese medicine.
His research on pulse diagnosis is also explained in the Book of Changes. For example, he said, “Floating pulses in the sky have a light and clear upward image. The hexagram is dry, the time is winter, and the man is the kidney.”
is also a qigong master himself. In his works, he also has profound explanations on the "circumvention of the week" Qi Channel Meridian. For example, he said: "The pulse of Rendu... Kanshui is the home of fire and intercourse", etc. Wait.
Li Shizhen’s medicinal theory is actually an embodiment of the ancient Chinese philosophy of "span3span".
In ancient China, Zhouyi not only guided medicine, it also guided politics, military affairs, literature, art, martial arts, and even all things in life.
Li Shizhen is great because of medicine, and his greatness proves the greatness of Zhouyi.
