How did Ximen Qing die?

The Water Margin says that Jin Ping Mei was killed by Wu Song, and the Jin Ping Mei says that it died of illness. The more detailed information is: As far as we know, Ximen Qing died from eating something like "cantharidin". What is "cantharidin"? You may have never seen it, but you must have heard of it. It is written in Lu Xun's "From Baicao Garden to Sanwei Bookstore" that "Press its backbone with your fingers, and it will make a snapping sound, and a burst of smoke will be emitted from the rear orifices." thing. Although I don’t hold a negative attitude towards the motherland’s medicine, I am skeptical to a certain extent. Although traditional Chinese medicine can cure some diseases, it has great limitations and cannot be superstitious. It is difficult for traditional Chinese medicine to be effective for many diseases. The active ingredients in traditional Chinese medicine are very small, and the ancients did not understand the mechanism of many diseases and the mechanism of drug interaction. Most of them are just connections between phenomena, not essential connections. Therefore, most Chinese medicines are considered to be ineffective. However, according to research, "cantharidin" is a traditional Chinese medicine with very significant effects. This "effect" is not necessarily the effect of curing diseases, but may be the effect of poisoning people. According to the Pharmacopoeia, this is a very toxic substance, containing highly toxic cantharidin. It is generally used to treat sores and must be prepared for oral administration. Processing involves roasting, frying, forging, or boiling, soaking, steaming, etc. To remove toxins, even after processing, the dosage should not exceed one gram. Ximen Qing runs a Chinese medicine shop, so he certainly knows the efficacy of this medicine. It is said that after eating this medicine, it stimulates the urethra through urination, inducing excitement in the lower body of men, and can be used to treat sexual dysfunction. He also knew how toxic this food was and couldn't eat too much. He had no choice but to get drunk and let Pan Jinlian overfeed him in a daze. He died at the age of thirty-four! It is written in "Jin Ping Mei" that Ximen Qing's urine is "like a knife plowing", which is the effect of eating this thing. According to the symptoms written below about Ximen Qing’s red complexion, painful kidney cysts, and difficulty in urinating, it is inferred that Ximen Qing probably died of acute renal failure. Fever, low back pain, and anuria are all symptoms of acute renal failure. Medical books say that poisoning by some people after eating centipedes can lead to acute renal failure. It can be speculated that poisoning by eating other insects may also lead to acute renal failure. Let’s talk about Li Ping’er’s death. The book “Jin Ping Mei” is too long. I didn’t have the patience to read the chapter where she died. I only know that she bled a lot when she died. I heard a very beautiful female teacher tell me that Li Ping’er died. Ping'er died of "blood collapse". What is the disease of "hemorrhagic collapse"? This is a term from traditional Chinese medicine. The symptom is heavy vaginal bleeding. Western medicine believes that this symptom is more common in functional uterine bleeding or cervical cancer. I think Li Ping'er died of cervical cancer. From a modern medical point of view, cervical cancer is largely caused by men. Women with more sexual partners and more promiscuous sexual relationships are less likely to develop cervical cancer. Bigger, Li Ping'er just meets this condition. Think about it, due to the underdeveloped medicine in ancient times, people like Ximen Qing and Li Ping'er died very young. With today's medical conditions, it is entirely possible that they could have been popular for decades more. Let’s talk about Ximen Qing first. He first suffered from neurasthenia due to excessive indulgence and suffered from sexual dysfunction. Sexual dysfunction is still a difficult disease to treat today, but modern medicine still has methods for it. There are dozens of methods based on different reasons, but none of them are perfect. Not to mention the drug Viagra, it is only the most convenient treatment method and is still ineffective for many such diseases. Ximen Qing's situation can be treated with a drug called "yohimbine", which is extracted from the bark of a tree and can increase people's desire. In addition, there are eight holes in the sacral part of the human spine. A drug called "strychnine" extracted from the traditional Chinese medicine Nux vomica and injected into the spine through these eight holes can stimulate the relevant nerves to restore function. This method There is also the possibility of curing his disease. There are many ways, so I won’t list them one by one, but these methods are likely to be ineffective. A more effective way is to inject the medicine directly into the lower body. If this doesn’t work, there are other ways... In short, there are ways. Some of these methods use traditional Chinese medicine, but those that have undergone extraction and chemical reactions are not traditional Chinese medicine in the strict sense. In terms of methods, some are Western medicine and some are a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, which are quite different from ancient Chinese medicine. Today, Ximen Qing has no need to take those traditional Chinese medicines whose efficacy is questionable and very toxic. It's really pitiful to think about the ancients. Once you get this disease, you won't die, but your life's happiness will be gone. Especially the emperor, seeing the seventy-two concubines in the three palaces and six courtyards, could only drool. At that time, the pathogenesis of the disease was not clear, and there was a lack of effective drugs and technical means. It was definitely rare to be able to cure it.

Besides, acute renal failure is mostly caused by eating something poisonous that damages the kidneys. It is a reversible kidney damage, unlike chronic renal failure (uremia), which is irreversible. Of course, this is also a very dangerous disease, which must be treated in time. Some of the treatment methods are similar to those of uremia, requiring dialysis. But through a series of treatments, it is possible to recover and survive. However, the treatment for such an urgent disease must be Western medicine. In the era where Ximen Qing lived, there was no Western medicine at all. He had to rely on the raspberries, magnolias, paired crickets and other medicines in his traditional Chinese medicine shop. To no avail. So Ximen Qing is doomed. The root cause of his death was not the disease, but the woman, so women are a disaster. A Pan Jinlian, she was unlucky when Zhang Dahu was in trouble, and she was unlucky when Wu Dalang was in trouble. Ximen Qing thought he was lucky, but who knew he would end up like Zhang Dahu and Wu Dalang, either sick or dead! As for Li Ping'er, today, the cause of cervical cancer has been basically understood. She can first protect herself through some means to prevent herself from contracting this dangerous disease. Furthermore, people who often pay attention to their bodies may detect this disease earlier even if they get it. If detected early, a considerable number of patients survive through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiotherapy. It’s just that the treatment is quite painful and it can cause hair loss. I wonder if Ximen Qing will like Li Ping'er who has lost all his hair. By extension, many other diseases that were incurable in ancient times are not a big problem today, such as Hua Xiao Shuan's tuberculosis. With antibiotics, it is said that some cases only cost about 100 yuan for medicine. It can be cured, but antibiotics must be taken for a sufficient course, otherwise if the bacteria are not completely killed and the antibiotics are stopped, drug resistance will develop and it will become refractory tuberculosis. At this time, it will cost thousands or even tens of thousands of yuan. If Hua Xiaoshuan were alive today, he would be cured without eating those terrible human blood steamed buns. Even if he couldn't be cured, it would basically guarantee that he would not die. The incense that has been passed down for nine generations of the Hua family has been preserved. There has been plague. There have been three major plagues in history, and tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people died each time. How terrible it was. It is said that London had to use countless mass graves to bury the dead. In the end, it took a fire to control the terrible plague. Today, an ordinary small hospital can cure plague as long as drugs such as sulfa and streptomycin are used. It's just that plague is a disease that hasn't been discovered for many years. Once someone gets sick, doctors probably won't think of it as plague. It comes on very quickly and is likely to spread to many people without being diagnosed, so it is still scary. Of course, with today's protective measures and treatment methods, there will never be a situation where an entire city dies. To sum up, due to the development of today's medical technology, many diseases that were very dangerous in the past are now not so scary. We can be as romantic as Ximen Qing and Li Ping'er without worrying about dying young like them. However, there are incurable diseases at any stage of the development of medicine. For many diseases today, medicine is still powerless. Perhaps diseases that seem terrible today will be conquered in the future like tuberculosis and plague. Future generations may see their illness as they see Ximen Qing and Li Ping'er. However, you must take care of your body while being romantic. People can be romantic, but they cannot be romantic too much. If they are too romantic, they will become like Ximen Qing and Li Ping'er, and then no matter how good medicine is, they may not be able to save you!