The story of Ye Tianshi, a famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty

Ye Tianshi, named Gui, nicknamed Xiangyan, and nicknamed Mr. Nanyang. He was born in about the fifth year of Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1666 AD) and died in the tenth year of Qianlong's reign (1745 AD). In his later years, he was also named Shanglu Old Man, a native of Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou City). A famous doctor in the Qing Dynasty, one of the four major febrile disease experts, as famous as Xue Xue and others.

Ye Tianshi is undoubtedly a well-known ancient doctor. But after all, Ye Tianshi is not as well-known as Hua Tuo and Bian Que. Let’s talk about Ye Tianshi’s story below.

Apprenticeship

In 1666 AD, Ye Tianshi was born in Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou). His great ancestor Ye Fengshan moved to Suzhou from Lantian Village, She County, Anhui Province. In ancient China, it was the most common workplace phenomenon for sons to inherit their father's business, especially in terms of craftsmanship, which was often passed down from son to son but not from daughter to daughter. He doesn't even have a son-in-law. Even if an outsider becomes a proud disciple, it is difficult to obtain all the true inheritance. Therefore, only by inheriting the father's legacy can the technology be prevented from being brought into the soil. Ye Tianshi's grandfather, Ye Zifan, was a famous doctor, a well-known filial son and a moral model; his father, Ye Yangsheng, was also a famous doctor and was said to like drinking, composing poems and collecting cultural relics. However, Ye Yangsheng died at the age of fifty, when Ye Tianshi was only fourteen years old. After Ye Yangsheng passed away, the Ye family quickly became poor and found it difficult to make a living.

Heaven will entrust this man with a great responsibility, which will surely strain his mind and body... In order to make a living, Ye Tianshi began to travel around the world and practice medicine after losing his father. He worshiped his father's disciple Zhu As a teacher, Ye Tianshi's level quickly surpassed that of Mr. Zhu due to the genetic inheritance of several generations of medical practitioners and his diligence and studiousness. By the age of eighteen, Ye Tianshi had studied with seventeen famous doctors, including Zhou Yangjun, Wang Zijie and other medical authorities at the time, thus earning him the reputation of "a profound and extensive discipleship".

"Disciples don't have to be inferior to their teachers, and teachers don't have to be better than their disciples. There is a priority in learning the Tao, and there are specialties in skills." I don't know if Ye Tianshi has read Han Yu's "The Master's Theory", but he did follow the rules of his apprenticeship. Do this. At that time, there was a famous doctor Liu in Shandong who was good at acupuncture. Ye Tianshi wanted to become his disciple, but he had no way. One day, a patient named Zhao came and turned out to be the nephew of Dr. Liu. He said that his uncle could not cure his disease, so he had to come to Ye Tianshi. Ye Tianshi looked at it and prescribed a few medicines, and it didn't take long for him to be cured. If it had been anyone else, I'm afraid he would have been complacent long ago. What kind of famous doctor? Not as good as me. But Ye Tianshi understood that there are specialties in medicine, and Liu Ming's inability to cure his nephew's disease did not mean that he was not good at medicine. Later, through Zhao's introduction, Ye Tianshi became a disciple of Dr. Liu under a pseudonym and became proficient in acupuncture.

The sea is open to all rivers, and the growth path of a famous doctor is often the process of constantly absorbing the strengths of others.

Fame

Like all Chinese medicine practitioners active among the people, Ye Tianshi is also a general practitioner. However, compared to the distant Bian Que and Hua Tuo, Ye Tianshi lived in the mid-to-late seventeenth century after all, and the categories of medicine had gradually been subdivided. Ye Tianshi was best at treating epidemics and acne, and was the first person to discover scarlet fever in China. He made the most outstanding achievements in the study of febrile diseases and was one of the founders of the study of febrile diseases.

A person's success is inseparable from "the right time, the right location, and the right people." Ye Tianshi was born in Suzhou. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the scale of cities in Jiangnan continued to expand and the population became more and more dense. What followed was the frequent occurrence of epidemic diseases... In terms of climate, the lakes, rivers and lakes in the south of the Yangtze River are located in a humid area, so there are many hot diseases. As a result, the Febrile Disease School gradually became the mainstream of the Wu School of Medicine. It reached its peak during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and for a long period of time, it took the leading position in the world. Ye Tianshi was born in Suzhou, which gave him the opportunity to choose a good development direction.

Throughout the history of China, famous doctors, in addition to possessing some sophisticated unique skills, all have the ability to treat epidemic diseases without exception. The epidemic spreads quickly and spreads widely. Finding a cure for the disease can save countless people. Not only is it a great kindness, but it is also very helpful in spreading your own reputation. There was once such a legend: Once, Ye Tianshi's mother was ill. He tried his best but could not cure it. He also invited many famous doctors and friends, but they did not work. Finally, the servant told him: There is a doctor Zhang in the back street, who often boasts that his medical skills are better than yours. But his clinic was deserted... With the idea of ??giving it a try, Ye Tianshi invited Dr. Zhang, who actually cured his mother. From then on, Ye Tianshi said to everyone he met: "Dr. Zhang's medical skills are better than mine. You can ask him to treat you."

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Jiangnan produces talented people and literati. Because of this, Ye Tianshi has many free propagandists. Some people say that Emperor Kangxi was grateful to Ye Tianshi for curing his back sore, and wrote a plaque with a royal pen saying "No. 1 in the world" There is also a legend that a certain immortal transformed into a mortal and came to see a doctor. After taking his pulse, Ye Tianshi wrote a few words on the medical record: "The six meridians are harmonious, which is either immortal or strange." "The gods were amazed...

The reputation of a famous doctor is inseparable from the famous doctor's own efforts and is also caused by the superposition of many external factors.

Recruiting disciples

Ye Tianshi had many masters and apprentices. The former was crucial to his becoming a famous doctor, and the latter allowed him to enjoy lasting glory after his death.

According to legend, Hua Tuo once had a book that he wanted to pass on to the jailer. The attempt failed and ended up being burned. In contrast, Ye Tianshi was much luckier. He did not write any medical masterpieces by himself, but he gradually wrote many works after his death. Among them, Gu Jingwen and Hua Xiuyun made the greatest contributions.

It is said that after Ye Tianshi's death, Gu Jingwen compiled and polished the medical opinions dictated by his teacher Ye Tianshi while boating on Dongting Lake, and compiled it into "Lunhe Lun" in the name of his teacher. It was made into a book and circulated throughout the world. Hua Xiuyun processed and organized the medical records of the teacher during his lifetime, divided them into categories, analyzed the principles of prescriptions, and wrote notes one by one to form the book "Clinical Guidelines for Medical Records", which later became a classic of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to famous works, there are also many works such as "The True Medical Records of Ye Tianshi" and "The Unprinted Medical Records of Ye", which were compiled by Ye Tianshi's apprentices and descendants.

As the saying goes. : "Famous teachers give birth to great disciples", and it is generally the reputation of a great disciple who comes from a famous teacher, and Ye Tianshi obviously had a group of good disciples. If it were not for so many books being handed down, Ye Tianshi might just be a legendary doctor. For more than two hundred years, it not only did not gradually disappear, but also continued to keep pace with the times, eventually forming an important medical school in the history of traditional Chinese medicine - the "Ye School", which still occupies an important position in the history of medicine until modern times.

It is this kind of mind that allows Ye Tianshi’s medical achievements to shine brightly and benefit many generations.

, how far can he go? Ye Tianshi's thoughts made him achieve his achievements. He realized the miracle of "a person is dead and he is still alive", and his life has been immortalized because of the inheritance of thoughts!

Humanistic Qualities

Doctors do not hold official positions and do not have official prestige. It is supposed to be approachable. However, there is often a sense of distance between modern doctors and patients, not to mention whether they can give patients a smiling face and a written medical record. Most people can't understand it. In contrast, famous doctors in ancient times attached great importance to "down-to-earthness". They had good humanistic accomplishments, which allowed their medical skills to be put into better use.

About Ye Tianshi. There are many stories about medical treatment. It is said that a poor man went to Ye Tianshi to see a doctor. He said that he was in good health and was just poor. If there was any way to cure the poor man, he would either scold this "scoundrel" or punish him. However, Ye Tianshi gave him a few olives and told him to go home and plant them so that he would be poor next year. . Unexpectedly, soon there was an endless stream of people coming to buy olive leaves. It turned out that Ye Tianshi knew that there was a seasonal disease and the medicine required olive leaves as an ingredient, so he asked the poor man to plant trees.

Doctors not only cure diseases, but also cure poverty. This sounds too exaggerated. However, this reflects a mentality that the public hopes that doctors will have a parent-like heart. If you have the heart of a parent, you will naturally work equally well and your medical skills will improve.

In modern times, with the improvement of national quality, traditional Chinese medicine has been increasingly questioned and even criticized. For example, Mr. Lu Xun wrote about his father's medical experience in "Father's Illness": the first famous medicine prescription included "sugar cane that has been frosted for three years"; the second famous medicine prescription was even more peculiar, "a pair of crickets", next to The small print "want the original wife"... As a result, Lu Xun's father was put to death, and his whole family was impoverished.

If a doctor is not good at medical skills and is seeking fame, he can easily become a killer. In this regard, Ye Tianshi once said his last words to his descendants: "You can do medicine but you can't do it. You must be talented and quick, read thousands of books, and then you can use your skills to help the world. Otherwise, there are few people who do not kill people. They use medicine and bait as the blade. I After death, children and grandchildren should be careful not to speak lightly of medical treatment.

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For a good doctor, down-to-earth attitude, parental heart, and sense of responsibility are even more important than medical skills.