The hospital is a sacred place to "heal the wounded and rescue the dying". What was it called in ancient times?

Ancient Yiguang and its nickname, ancient people went to the doctor's house to see a doctor when they were sick. But this "doctor's home" is not specific and accurate. Specifically, it should be Yi Guang.

In ancient times, doctors often divided some halls and rooms at home into "medical light" for consultation and rest of seriously ill patients. Most of Yiguang is a drugstore selling drugs to diagnose diseases, and it is also a righteous light.

A pharmacy run by a reclusive doctor (an imperial doctor, a witch doctor, etc.) Suburbs, deep mountains and deep valleys are also considered as Yiguang (this kind of pharmacy is very common in novels, but most pharmacies in cities are pure pharmacies).

There is a folk legend that the filial piety queen of the Ming emperor Judy suffered from breast diseases, and many famous doctors failed to diagnose them. All these diseases were difficult to diagnose because she could not look straight. One day, a Taoist priest came and said that he could cure the queen's illness.

But the Taoist priest can only stand outside the door at a distance and can't enter the queen's room. The Taoist priest came up with a way to let people wrap a silk thread around the queen's wrist and judge the queen's pulse condition through this silk thread.

In order to verify the authenticity of Taoist medical skills, Judy secretly tied silk thread to the queen's Yuhuan and cat's feet. As a result, the Taoist priest saw through it, and the Taoist priest really cured the queen's illness. This legend not only shows that the Taoist priest's medical skills are quite brilliant, but also reflects the difficulties of ancient male doctors in treating aristocratic women.

Folk women are also imprisoned by feudal ethics, and sick women, especially those with gynecological diseases, are often ashamed to talk about or be vague. Some female patients would rather die than reveal their privacy. In Yuan Mingshan's A Good Woman, Ma Shi, a widow with a breast ulcer, finally died because she refused to be treated by a male doctor. Ma Shi said, "I would rather die than see this disease."

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People's Daily News Ancient doctors treated patients differently between men and women: the imperial doctor "took the pulse" for Cixi.