How did Ximen Qing die?

In Water Margin, it is said that Jin Pingmei was killed by Song Wu. Specifically, that is to say, Ximen Qing died of illness. As far as we know, he ate something like "Mylabris" and died. What is "Mylabris"? You may not have seen it, but you must have heard of it. This is what Mr. Lu Xun wrote in "From a Hundred Herbs Garden to a Three Ponds Printing the Moon": "When you press its spine with your fingers, you will make a sound, and a smoke will come out from behind your nose." Although I am not negative about TCM, I am skeptical to some extent. Although Chinese medicine can cure some diseases, it has great limitations and cannot be superstitious. For many diseases, traditional Chinese medicine is difficult to be effective. There are few effective components in traditional Chinese medicine, and the ancients did not understand the pathogenesis of many diseases and the mechanism of drug interaction. Most of them only use the connection of phenomena, not the essential connection Therefore, it is considered that most Chinese medicines are ineffective. However, according to research, "Mylabris" is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine with remarkable curative effect. This "effect" is not necessarily the effect of treating diseases, but perhaps the effect of poisoning people. According to the Pharmacopoeia, this is a highly toxic substance, which contains highly toxic cantharidin. It is usually used to treat toxic sores. Must be handled internally. Processing refers to roasting, frying and calcining with fire, or removing toxins by boiling, soaking and steaming. Even after processing, the dosage should not exceed one gram. Ximen Qing runs a Chinese medicine shop. Of course he knows the curative effect of this medicine. It is said that after taking this medicine, it can stimulate the urethra through urination and induce the excitement of the male lower body, which can be used to treat sexual dysfunction. He also knows the toxicity of this stuff, so he can't eat more. But he was drunk and let Pan Jinlian feed him too much. He's dead, only 34 years old! In "Jin Ping Mei", it is written that Ximen Qing drowned like "knife ploughing", which is the function of eating this thing. Judging from Ximen Qing's red face, pain of renal cyst and dysuria, Ximen Qing should have died of acute renal failure. Fever, low back pain and anuria are all manifestations of acute renal failure. According to medical books, some people will be poisoned by centipedes, leading to acute renal failure. It can be inferred that other insect poisoning may also lead to acute renal failure. Let's talk about Li Pinger's death again. The book Jin Ping Mei is too long to finish the chapter where she died. I only know that when she died, she lost a lot of blood. According to a beautiful female teacher, Li Pinger died of "blood collapse". What disease is "bloody collapse"? This is a Chinese medical term, and the symptom is vaginal bleeding. Western medicine believes that this symptom is more common in functional uterine bleeding or cervical cancer. I think Li Pinger should have died of cervical cancer. From the perspective of modern medicine, cervical cancer is largely brought to women by men. The more sexual partners, the more promiscuous women are, and the greater the possibility of cervical cancer. Li Pinger meets this requirement. Think about how young people like Ximen Qing and Li Pinger died because of the underdevelopment of ancient medicine. With current medical conditions, they may have sex for decades. Let me start with Ximen Qing. First, sexual life is too much to suffer from neurasthenia and sexual dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction is still a very difficult disease today, but modern medicine still has methods to treat it. According to different reasons, there are dozens of methods, but none of them is perfect. Forget Viagra, it is only the most convenient treatment, and it is still ineffective for many such diseases. This situation in Ximen Qing can be treated with a medicine called Yohimbine, which is extracted from bark and can increase people's desire. In addition, there are eight holes in the sacrum of the human spine. A drug called strychnine extracted from Semen Strychni can be injected into the spine through these eight holes to stimulate the related nerves to restore their functions. This method may also cure his disease. There are many methods, so I won't list them one by one, but they are probably ineffective. A more effective method is to inject drugs directly into the lower body. If this doesn't work, there are other ways ... in short, there are many ways. Some of these methods use traditional Chinese medicine, but after extraction and chemical reaction, they are not traditional Chinese medicine in the strict sense. In terms of methods, some are western medicine and some are integrated with Chinese and western medicine, which is very different from ancient Chinese medicine. There is absolutely no need for Ximen Qing to take those traditional Chinese medicines with questionable curative effect and great toxicity today. It's pathetic to think about the ancients. Once you get this disease, you can't die, but you will lose happiness all your life. Especially the emperor, looking at seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six hospitals, can only drool. At that time, the pathogenesis of the disease was still unclear, and there was a lack of effective drugs and technical means. Curing it is absolutely rare. In addition, acute renal failure is mostly caused by eating toxic things and damaging the kidneys. This is a reversible renal damage, unlike chronic renal failure (uremia) which is irreversible. Of course, this is also a very dangerous disease and must be treated in time. Some treatments are similar to uremia and need dialysis. But after a series of treatments, he may die slowly. But this kind of emergency treatment must be western medicine. There was no western medicine in Ximen Qing, and it didn't help that his Chinese medicine shop relied on raspberries, Manglietia, paired crickets and so on. So Ximen Qing is doomed. The root cause of his death is not disease, but woman, so woman is a disaster. A lotus of Pan Jinlian, Zhang Dajia was unlucky in her stall, and Wu Dalang was unlucky in her stall. Ximen Qing thought he was a tough guy. Who knows that he will end up like a big family and Wu Dalang, either sick or dead! As for Li Pinger, today, the cause of cervical cancer has been basically understood. First of all, she can protect herself by some means, so that she won't get this dangerous disease. Then there are people who often pay attention to their health, even if they get the disease, they may find it earlier. If found early, a considerable number of patients survived through surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. It's just that the treatment is very painful and it will lose hair. I wonder if Ximen Qing will like a Li Pinger who has lost all his hair. By extension, many other diseases that could not be cured in ancient times are not a big problem today. For example, the tuberculosis of Huaxiaoshuan is treated with antibiotics. It is said that some cases can be cured with drugs of about 100 yuan, but the antibiotics should be taken for a full course of treatment, otherwise, if the bacteria are not completely killed, they will stop taking drugs and become resistant to tuberculosis. At this time, it will cost thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. If Hua Xiaoshuan is today, he can be cured without eating that terrible human blood steamed bread. Even if it can't be cured, it can basically guarantee that he will not die. The fragrance handed down from the nine generations of Huajia has been preserved. And the plague. There have been three great plagues in history, and tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people died each time. How terrible. It is said that numerous mass graves were used to bury the dead in London at that time, and finally a fire brought the terrible plague under control. Today, an ordinary small hospital can cure plague by using drugs such as sulfanilamide and streptomycin. It's just that the plague has not been discovered for many years. Once someone gets sick, doctors probably won't think it's a plague. It came quickly and probably passed on to many people without diagnosis, so it was still terrible. Of course, with today's protective measures and treatment methods, there will be no deaths in the whole city. To sum up, due to the development of medical technology today, many dangerous diseases in the past are not so terrible now. Children can be as romantic as Ximen Qing and Li Pinger without worrying about premature death. But there are incurable diseases at any stage of medical development, and there are still many diseases that medicine can't do. Maybe the diseases that look terrible today will be conquered like tuberculosis and plague in the future. Future generations may see their children sick just as they saw Ximen Qing and Li Pinger. However, when you are in love, you must cherish your body. People can be romantic, but you can't be too romantic. If you are too romantic, you will become like Ximen Qing and Li Pinger, and even the best medicine may not save you!