Nowadays life is no longer as simple as before, or just pursuing food and clothing. It is normal to drink and eat and eat, especially at night, I go for midnight snacks from time to time. I eat too much fat, sweet and greasy food, and I lack exercise in daily life, gaining weight has become the norm. In modern times, it is the three highs. In the past, this type of person was called a rich person.
There is another saying in traditional Chinese medicine that fat people have more phlegm. If the phlegm stays in the body for a long time, it can be a pathological product, and it will become a cause and cause other diseases.
Each typical disease has its corresponding prescription for treatment. " Medical Prescriptions Jijie " records: "Two Chens are used to treat phlegm." It means that all diseases caused by phlegm can be treated with Erchen Decoction. The famous doctor Sheng Wenji once treated such a disease.
According to the "Famous Doctor Case", a Wudi coach suddenly felt a headache and had symptoms of fever and chills. At first, he treated it as an exogenous disease. Later, a doctor treated this disease as a treatment for wind evil. When there was fever, he reduced the fever. When the patient felt headache, he relieved the pain, but the symptoms were not mild and worsened. Later, he changed his doctor and treated this disease as Qi deficiency . The condition became worse and worse, and finally reached the point where he was unconscious and had no improvement in diet. Later, Sheng Wenji was found by someone's introduction.
Sheng Wenji took a look after the diagnosis and treatment since he got sick and said to his family: "The patient almost lost his life due to mistreatment several times. His disease was originally caused by 'phlegm-wrapped food'. The doctors before did not pursue the cause of the disease. They all experienced heat and relieve fever, and relieve pain, which almost caused a big mistake. They should get rid of the stagnation first."
So he prescribed Erchen Decoction and added a stinky rhubarb . He asked the patient's family to hurry up and get the medicine and decoct the medicine, and asked someone to feed him the medicine until the evening. At night, the patient's left eye moved slightly, which means that the patient's stagnant liver qi was slightly evacuated, and as long as the patient was severely discharged, there was a possibility of survival.
In the middle of the night, a sound of intestinal rumbling suddenly appeared in the patient's abdomen, and his left eye was indeed opened. Later, the patient leaked a lot of filth, some of which were like eggs. When he cut the eggs with a bamboo knife, he could see that the things inside were pasta wrapped in phlegm.
It can be seen that all the symptoms of the patient are caused by phlegm and food. If you do not carefully investigate the cause, you will not know the real cause of the patient. After the discharge, the patient felt relaxed all over, felt that the stagnant energy in his body had evaporated, and the body fluids in his body were also circulated. I just wanted to eat soon.
This case was circulated among many doctors at that time. Whenever he met Sheng Wenji, he would ask him how he learned that the disease was caused by "phlegm and food".
Sheng Wenji always explains it tirelessly: "The teacher is a northerner who lives in Wu for a long time. Northerners like to drink and eat pasta. The humid climate of Wu and long-term drinking can help dampness. The dampness can damage the spleen. The spleen is the foundation of acquired nature. Once the spleen and earth are deficient, all diseases will be intertwined. If such diseases are needed, such medicine is needed. What else is there to question?" The person who asked him always appreciates Sheng Wenji.
