Introduction: Li Shizhen (1518-1593), whose courtesy name was Dongbi. In his later years, he called himself a native of Binghushan. He was a native of Wachiba (today's Doctor Street), Dongchang Street, Qizhou Town, Qichun County, Hubei Province. He was a famous poet in the Ming Dynasty. Medical scientist. Later, he served as the chief minister of the Chu Palace and the Royal Imperial Hospital. After his death, the Ming court granted him the title of "Mr. Wen Lin".
Famous Quotes:
1. In a person's body, if the heart is moved by greed, fluid will be born; if the heart is moved by sadness, tears will be born; if the heart of soul is moved, sweat will be born; if the heart is moved by desire, sperm will be born. ——Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica"
2. All diseases must be treated first at their roots and then at their symptoms. ——Li Shizhen
3. Treat the root cause if it is slow, and treat the symptoms if it is urgent. ——Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica"
4. The human body is not limited to the exterior and interior, and the qi and blood are not limited to deficiency and excess. ——Li Shizhen, "Compendium of Materia Medica"
Extended information:
Li Shizhen respects Zhang Yuanzhen when treating syndromes, pays attention to disease and syndrome differentiation, strict legislation, and appropriate medication. During treatment, either ancient prescriptions are adapted, new prescriptions are made, or folk prescriptions are used, most of which are effective.
Li Shizhen’s academic thoughts and research methods are very distinctive. Under new historical conditions, based on his own practical experience, he improved ancient scientific methods and accumulated new experience in scientific research. Li Shizhen successfully used the methods of observation and experiment, comparison and classification, analysis and synthesis, critical inheritance and historical research.
Li Shizhen broke the three-grade classification system of upper, middle and lower grades that had been followed for more than a thousand years since the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", and divided medicines into water, fire, earth, gold and stone, grass, grain, There are 16 categories including raisins, fruits, trees, utensils and clothing, insects, scales, media, birds, beasts and humans, including 60 categories. Each medicine label is renamed as "gang", and the items are listed under the "gang". The outline is clear.
The book also systematically describes the knowledge of various drugs. It includes corrections, explanations of names, interpretations, corrections, corrections, smells, indications, inventions, appendices, appendices, etc., from the history, form, function, prescriptions, etc. of the medicine, the description is very detailed, enriching the knowledge of herbal medicine.
Compendium of Materia Medica not only made a significant contribution to the development of Chinese pharmacology, but also had a profound impact on the development of medicine, botany, zoology, mineralogy, and chemistry in the world. It has been translated into more than ten languages ??including Japanese, French, German, English, Latin, Russian and Korean and published abroad.
The book is the first to create a syllabus system that classifies drugs step by step according to their natural properties. This classification method is one of the important methods of modern biological taxonomy. "A century and a half earlier, it is known as the "Masterpiece of Oriental Medicine".
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