Omniscient and Almighty

   Chapter 196 Spirit Pivot

   "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is a classic of acupuncture."

   "Shen Nong's Materia Medica is the classic of medicine."

"Acupuncture is the main thing, medicine is the supplement. Medicine is three-part poison. So if it's not necessary, only use needles, not medicines. This is the general overview and basic principles of traditional Chinese medicine." Zhang Lao said lightly, "However, medicine can be learned. , and the needle cannot be learned."

   "So, since later generations, the internal classics have been useless, and most of the time the actual situation has been shelved."

"For thousands of years, even the famous doctors of the past dynasties, such as Zhang Zhongjing, Tao Hongjing, Sun Simiao and others, have been named after medicine. As for famous doctors, for the vast majority of medical practitioners, it is more that there is a way to learn medicine. Feasible, learning acupuncture is impossible.”

   "What about Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Li Shizhen?" Xu Guangling asked.

Strictly speaking, Xu Guangling actually knows about Li Shizhen and "Compendium of Materia Medica", and Bian Que is the small article mentioned by the old man when he first met Zhang Lao, "See Bian Que" Duke Huan of Cai".

   As for Hua Tuo, Xu Guangling knew that the name was entirely because of Cao Cao's relationship.

   Zhang Zhongjing and others mentioned by Zhang Lao just now, these names are not unfamiliar to Xu Guangling, but Xu Guangling is very unfamiliar with these people, I don't know what works and achievements they have, and even their ages are relatively vague.

   The three people he "knows" about, but Old Zhang didn't mention them at this time.

   "Bian Que, named after needles, and also decoctions."

   "Hua Tuo, because his works have not been circulated, it is difficult to make a practical evaluation of it. In the actual inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, this is only a symbolic symbol."

   Xu Guangling nodded.

   The so-called symbolic symbols can actually be regarded as non-existent. Folks may talk about this person because of Mafeisan and the world's first surgical operation, but for medical practitioners, this famous doctor does not have much practical significance.

"Li Shizhen, and the "Compendium of Materia Medica"," Zhang Lao pondered for a while before saying: "There is a contribution. This book, and the "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" I mentioned to you just now, are not one thing."

  Contribution is there?

   Xu Guangling was very surprised to hear Zhang Lao say this.

   This is...

But since Zhang Lao didn't go into details, Xu Guangling didn't ask any more questions. He would naturally know something about these things in the future. In fact, these had nothing to do with his medical studies. He asked Zhang Lao about what he had done before. What you said: "Teacher, you just said that medicine can be learned, but needles cannot?"

"Well." Zhang Lao nodded, "This is exactly what I'm going to tell you next. Medicine is visible but needles are invisible. Medicine can be passed on but needles cannot be passed on. Why can't needles be passed on? Just because it involves traditional Chinese medicine. The most fundamental and crucial thing.”

   "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is divided into two parts." Zhang Lao changed the topic and turned to this, "One is called "Su Wen", and the other is called "Lingshu"."

"Su Wen" is a general introduction, an introduction, or a preface, although it is relatively long. But the main body of this book is still the "Lingshu". Since the past dynasties, many medical experts, such as Zhang Zhongjing, are mostly right "Plain Questions" has been inherited, summarized and developed, and with the principles of plain questions combined with the use of medicines, it has become a generation of famous doctors."

   "And they don't inherit much about "Spiritual Pivot", or simply ignore it."

   "What's the reason?"

   "It's actually just a sentence."

   Having said this, Zhang Lao paused for a while, looked at Xu Guangling, and then said with such seriousness that he solemnly said, "Those who learn the Spirit Pivot must be masters."

   After saying this, Zhang Lao immediately asked: "Humble words, what is a 'hub'?"

  What is a pivot?

   hub.

   Center.

   The running water is not rotten, and the hinge of the house is not moth.

   This is what Xu Guangling thought of for the first time, and then the original meaning of the word became clear. The pivot is the rotating shaft on the old-fashioned door. And in general terms, it is an immobile part of a fluid, active system.

  The soldiers of the iron-battered camp and flowing water, this "pivot" is the "iron-battered camp".

  Xu Guangling reported all the trivial things he thought to Zhang Lao, and after nodding his head, the old man asked: "So, in my humble words, what is this 'pivot' in the human body?"

   Xu Guangling's expression froze.

  The soldiers in the iron camp and flowing water, he thought of this sentence again.

  The soldiers of flowing water, placed in the human body, obviously refer to the flowing qi and blood, the iron camp?

   is the body? is it bone? are blood vessels? Is it nerves?

   Or refers to the so-called meridians?

   The answer is self-evident. In traditional Chinese medicine, we don’t talk about bones, blood vessels, and nerves, but only meridians. This is something Xu Guangling, a complete layman, knows.

   This cannot be explained by the underdevelopment of ancient knowledge.

One of the most obvious examples is blood vessels, which is known to ordinary people, and there must have been injuries and bleeding events in ancient times, so the "blood vessels" will definitely be discovered, but for a long time, Chinese medicine does not talk about this thing. .

   It only talks about meridians.

   And amazingly, acupuncture doesn't hurt.

  Can you imagine, using a needle to pierce the human body, sometimes even deeply, it doesn't hurt at all!

   To put it a bit witty, this TM is unscientific!

   Well, science is easy to explain this phenomenon, but the question is, how did the ancients think of inserting needles into the body? How did you find those spots?

   "Teacher, did you mean 'meridians'?" Xu Guangling said.

In the past month or so before, Zhang Lao only told him some basic conditions of the human body and various pathological cases, but basically did not mention anything about traditional Chinese medicine, and Xu Guangling still had some basic understanding of acupuncture and moxibustion. Known it a long time ago.

   Of course, at that time he understood this partly out of no intention, partly out of curiosity, and in the end it was only a superficial understanding.

Zhang Lao nodded, "Since the appearance of glass, the discovery of magnification, the development of magnifying glasses and even microscopes, human's understanding of the world has advanced to more than one level. The entire modern biology can be said to be built on microscopes. on the basis of.”

"Blood vessels, capillaries, nerves, cells and even DNA are all invisible under the insight of a microscope. In this case, a very embarrassing thing happened, that is, the meridians mentioned in Chinese medicine. ."

   "Meridian, where is it?"

   "Since it is in the human body, and it is a place where a needle or even a sharp stone can penetrate, there is no reason why it cannot be detected by a microscope."

"So, 'searching for the meridians' is the first and fundamental topic of TCM research in the new era. Without progress on this topic, TCM will not be able to make progress. If this proposition cannot be verified, then TCM cannot be used in the modern medical system. stand in the middle.”

   "There is no doubt about the efficacy of Chinese medicine. Whether it is acupuncture or medicine."

   "The foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, the meridians, cannot be seen under the microscope, and there is no doubt about that."

   "There is a great contradiction between the two."

   "So, in view of this, the country once made the search for meridians one of the key research plans in the fifteen-year science and technology development plan."

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