"Medical practitioners should practice! People who practice medicine must have rich experience in treating illnesses and saving lives. Yamachō is using the Tang Empire's joint medical center to complement the medical school's teaching. Wonderful! Wonderful! "
Dr. Wang clapped and sighed.
"Actually, in addition to Prescriptions of a Thousand Gold, I think Priest Sun and the two of you can consider compiling a medical reference book on the medicinal properties of herbs for students to refer to in the future!"
After handing the Prescriptions of a Thousand Gold to Sun Simiao, Li Zexuan suddenly had another idea in his mind. He looked at Sun Simiao and the others and said.
"Medicinal properties of herbs?"
Sun Simiao frowned and said, "Xiaoxuan, most of the medicinal properties of herbs are recorded in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica. Why do you have to go the extra mile and write another book?"
Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, also known as Materia Medica or Materia Medica, was one of the four classics of Chinese medicine. It was the earliest Chinese medicine book in China. It originated from Shennong and was passed down orally from generation to generation. It was compiled and compiled into a book during the Eastern Han Dynasty. The book was not written in a short period of time, and the author was not a single person.
Li Zexuan shook his head. Of course, he knew about the existence of Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica, but he didn't mean to write another book. He wanted to write a medical book similar to Compendium of Materia Medica. He pondered for a moment and said,
"Priest Sun, Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica does record the medicinal properties of a large number of herbs, but the classification method is a little rough. Moreover, many of the records have been lost for a long time, so it's inevitable that there will be some mistakes! For people who practice medicine, a small mistake is likely to cost the patient's life!
Therefore, I hope the three of you can spare some time in the future. On one hand, you can revise and correct the mistakes in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica. On the other hand, you can divide the herbs recorded in Shennong's Classic of Materia Medica into categories according to the compendium and form a complete and detailed herbal reference book!
Just like the Tang Dynasty Dictionary to scholars, the herbal reference book that the three of you will revise in the future will be the Tang Dynasty's herbal reference book. Doctors can quickly find out the medicinal properties and effects of certain herbs through this book!
For example, the three of you can divide the medicine into different parts according to its properties, and each part can be further divided into several categories … "
Li Zexuan had not read the Compendium of Materia Medica in his previous life, so naturally, he did not have a complete memory of it. However, even if he had read it in its entirety, he would not copy the Compendium of Materia Medica for Sun Simiao and the rest!
In Li Zexuan's previous life, the Compendium of Materia Medica had a very high status. Not only was there a corresponding text in elementary school textbooks, but it was also called the Encyclopedia of Ancient China by Darwin. However, the Compendium of Materia Medica's contribution to TCM was very low, and it was far from being praised by elementary school textbooks and Darwin.
At that time, the historical background was that Sun Simiao's Prescriptions of a Thousand Gold had a large amount of Taoist Yin and Yang concepts, while Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica was more inclined towards botany. Darwin definitely did not understand the Taoist Yin and Yang theory, but he felt that some of the points in the Compendium of Materia Medica could support his own theory of evolution. Therefore, he wantonly promoted and praised it in the West!
In the "My Dynasty" era, the general trend was that foreign monks were good at chanting scriptures, and if foreigners said that it was good, then it was naturally excellent. Therefore, the status of the Compendium of Materia Medica was infinitely raised!
It could be said that the fame of the Compendium of Materia Medica was the result of a deliberate hype by foreigners to support its academic theory. At that time, the textbook was edited to cater to this hype, and carried out another false packaging, packaging Li Shizhen as a great TCM scholar!
But in reality, Li Shizhen's contribution in the field of Materia Medica was far less than his contribution in the field of Pulse Diagnosis. When he first became famous, he relied on the two medical books, "Lake-Side Pulse Technique" and "Examination of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians", and not the Compendium of Materia Medica!
In his previous life, Li Zexuan had a Master's Degree friend from the Capital University's Medical Department who said that in the Chinese Medicine Encyclopedia, only three herbs were recorded in the Compendium of Materia Medica. The rest were mostly recorded in the "Shennong's Materia Medica" and the "Materia Medica Collection Annotations" (written by Tao Hongjing of the Southern Liang Dynasty). In other words, when it came to the commonly used Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine was basically based on the Shennong's Materia Medica and Tao Hongjing's Materia Medica!
Moreover, although the Compendium of Materia Medica recorded as many as 1892 types of medicine, Li Shizhen was just a poor doctor in the countryside who did not even have a published book. Naturally, he did not have the financial resources and ability to verify each and every one of these 1892 types of medicine. This led to many of the medical records being untrue. In the end, in the Compendium of Materia Medica, there were such absurd prescriptions as "Foot Binding Cloth to Treat Typhoid and Fever" and "Hanging Rope to Treat Insanity".
However, this did not mean that the Compendium of Materia Medica had no merit. Its greatest contribution was that it opened the way for the classification of medicinal herbs. It used a man-made classification method. Compared to the rubbish and primitive classification methods in the previous medical books, the Compendium of Materia Medica's man-made classification method was many times more advanced and scientific.
In the Compendium of Materia Medica, Li Shizhen divided all the medicinal herbs into 16 divisions: Water, Fire, Earth, Metal, Stone, Grass, Valley, Vegetable, Fruit, Wood, Clothing, Insect, Scale, Mesa, Bird, Beast, and Human. Each division was further divided into several categories, with a total of 62 categories. Among them, there were 1195 types of plants, 340 types of animals, and 357 types of ores.
With such a classification, if a doctor wanted to find out the medicinal properties of a certain medicinal herb, it was simply too convenient. It was as convenient as looking up rare words in the Tang Dynasty Dictionary! Therefore, what Li Zexuan wanted to do was to recommend the excellent classification method of medicinal herbs in the Compendium of Materia Medica to Sun Simiao and the others. He wanted them to use this classification method to organize some of the previous medical books and form a medical reference book similar to the Compendium of Materia Medica!
He believed that with the ability of these three people, the quality of the medical book organized by them would definitely not be lower than Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica!
"Yamachō! If we use this classification method to organize the previously recorded medicinal herbs into a book, then when the students learn about medicine, it will undoubtedly be more convenient and faster! "
After listening to Li Zexuan's detailed explanation, Professor Qin and Professor Wang looked at each other and praised.
"En! Xiao Xuan, your method of classifying medicinal herbs is indeed superior. It can be understood at a glance! I will find some time in the future to organize such a medical book for the medical school ~! "
Sun Simiao also nodded and praised. Then, he changed the topic and said with a smile, "But if I remember correctly, Xiao Xuan, you promised to make a tool for me to see small things last year! But it has been almost a year, Xiao Xuan, have you forgotten about this matter? "
"Ah ~?"
Li Zexuan was stunned. He didn't expect Old Sun to ask him to repay his debt. Cough, cough!
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