The MengXi writing "in the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine

The 2016-09-19 16:09:35

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

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The northern song dynasty written by scientists and politicians shen kua MengXi talk ", is a related to the ancient Chinese science, technology and social and historical phenomenon of comprehensive notes body works. An important role in the cultural history in the world. Shen kua his life ambition of scientific research, has deep attainments in many disciplines and remarkable achievements, old age in zhenjiang MengXi wrote the MengXi talk ", saw and heard includes life and opinions. Book contents involved in astronomy, geology, physics, chemistry, biology, water conservancy, architecture, medicine, history, literature, and many other fields.

Shen kua in MengXi stature "shows on a prominent scientific achievements in the field of medicine, expounds the Chinese herbal medicine must also condition. Shen kua think "comfort gathering herbs multi-purpose in February and August, this extremely not when". Although he thinks the CaiYaoRen facilitate identification of herbal medicine, but not the best time of herbalism. He put forward his own opinions, medicinal part for the root of plant, if there is old root, must be picked when no stem leaf, this essence is concentrated in the root, "to test, but taking reed Fu, radix rehmanniae, without seedlings, is solid and heavy; have a seedling, the empty and floating" (reed Fu radish). No root of old drugs, will have to wait until the plants grow up but not yet picked when flowering, so the roots grow enough, not aging, "now of radix arnebiae seu lithospermi, not flower, root fresh color jersey; flowers and mining, the root color dark evil, that its effect is also". With flowers bloom in picking the drugs, drugs with fruit harvest in fruit grow, can use fixed time limit, because to enrage sooner or later, timing change.

To illustrate herbs should be timely collection, the author examines the plant growth rule, topography, air temperature, soil, and artificial management and so on various factors, he from bai juyi YouDaLin temple did: "world April wheatgrass, beginning yamadera peach blossom in full bloom" verify plant growth rule related to terrain height; And from different areas of rice plants, the same beds where the differences between the demonstrated also herbalism, can be regarded as plant physiological ecology and herbs on the outline.

Pharmaceutical botany, shen kua also identify the chicken tongue clove, can cure tone, corrected the adopted chicken tongue at that time from the absurdity of frankincense. He also made a analysis of rhizoma gastrodiae and red arrows, confirm the red arrow is the rhizoma gastrodiae.

Shen kua rigor, good at thinking, he thinks the child stop gold trader's heritage, take its warm and dry. Also the gold trader of its red when mature, juice boil cream used, big mistake. Also red, taste gansu, boil cream are all broken astringency, all of nature. Today when take half yellow, dry, pounding at the end of the use of ". Fructus rosae laevigatae son gold trader that traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), shen kua thinks it can treat spermatorrhea, diarrhea due to temperature, the medicinal properties of acerbity. If it is red when mature fruit juice such as boil cream, is very wrong. Because red ripe fruits taste sweet, boil cream is no astringency, lost the potency. So shen kua think Cherokee rose should be picked when half yellow, dry pounded into taking at the end of it there is a reason.

Shen kua in pharmacy soup, powder, pill is expounded their appropriate usage, also is consistent with the theory of modern pharmacy. Lin Yirong (fujian)