The story of silver carp and licorice

Recently, a patient sought medical treatment from me, and the disease is incurable. My teacher and I have never had a clinical experience, and there is no good prescription in general hospitals. Even a few books on ancient and modern Chinese medicine can't solve my confusion.

in the dead of night, it's time to study again. I picked up Changsha Xiaozhuoru's "Dunyuan Medical Case" and read it. Although the puzzle has not been solved, a strange case recorded in it is interesting, so I write a composition to share.

It is recorded in the book that there is a big family with a large population. In winter, a lot of silver carp are harvested in the dry pond, and the family cooks silver carp at noon. In the evening, the hostess began to feel uncomfortable with bloating and chest tightness, but she didn't care. Only to find that the hostess had died stiff the next day. After repeated tracing, the whole family found that besides fish soup and fish bones, there was also a licorice root four or five inches long. In-depth investigation, her daughter said that when the child was so noisy, she gave her a licorice root. The licorice in the pot was probably left by the child when cooking fish.

But the hostess's family didn't approve of it. One of the teenagers made a scene and said, "Licorice and silver carp are eaten together. I haven't heard that people will die since ancient times. Don't prevaricate with this. Otherwise, cook silver carp and licorice together, and I'll show you! "

After that, the family had to comply, and the teenager personally cooked licorice and silver carp, and finished the cooked silver carp. After eating the silver carp, he also laughed loudly at the onlookers for being timid and ignorant.

The next day, I found that the boy was stiff and dead.

As a result, the hostess's family left without a word.

It was recorded in the book that Zhang Xichun, a famous doctor in Yanshan at that time, saw it with his own eyes, so Zhang Xichun advocated that silver carp should avoid licorice.

Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch is sweet in taste and flat in nature. Heart, lung, spleen and stomach meridian. Traditional Chinese medicine is known as "the old man in the country" and "the second handsome man". Before the Jin Dynasty, our ancestors knew that licorice could "cure 72 kinds of milk stone poison and 1,2 kinds of plant poison". Sun Simiao, the king of medicine in the Tang Dynasty, once said, "Licorice can cure all kinds of poison, and medicine is like soup and snow. "

I think: everything has its advantages, but it also has its disadvantages." There is no magic medicine in the world "is the truth. After all, practice is the only criterion for testing truth.