Traditional Chinese medicine medicine cabinet, it is said that Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Three Kingdoms period, cured a carpenter. The name of the medicine, used to store commonly used Chinese herbal medicines. Because it is a box and a bucket, it is also called a hundred child cabinet or a medicine bucket. Traditional Chinese medicine is a cultural treasure of our country and has been protecting people’s health for thousands of years.
Qing Dynasty beech wood medicine cabinet
I have two beech wood medicine cabinets, which were made and shipped from China to Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty. More than 100 years have passed in a blink of an eye, and there is no defect in the inheritance. , it’s really not easy. The medicine cabinet is of tenon-and-mortise structure, without a single nail, and each medicine cabinet is divided into two sections, up and down, for easy handling. Under the principle of upper bucket, hands and edges, there are 15 drawers in the middle of each cabinet, and each drawer contains 12 medicine buckets, and 12 medicine names are engraved on the surface of each drawer. The classification of medicines is based on The properties of Chinese herbal medicines, such as raw kelp, gall, and Niubangzi, are grouped into one drawer, and there are a total of 360 commonly used Chinese herbal medicines in two cabinets.
Now that the century-old medicine cabinet has been moved into my house, it no longer contains Chinese herbal medicine. I cleared out hundreds of medicine buckets and customized a wall of pinewood lattices. Put the medicine buckets one by one, it is spectacular, and it can also store things. This is the new life of the old medicine bucket. I once wrote a poem “If you want to learn about hanging pots, but you can’t get it, the recipes are even recorded in Chuwulu. You know a little about the flavors of a hundred medicines, but how could a hundred medicines ever know me?”
The Fulfillment of the World
I remembered that I wanted to study Chinese medicine in the past, but then I chose liberal arts, so I didn’t go to Chinese medicine. Sometimes I think I didn’t inherit the medical skills of my great-grandfather, which is really regrettable. However, when I was in college, whenever I saw thread-bound Chinese medicine books or hand-copied medical records at cold stalls, I would buy them for collection. Sometimes when I hear some remedies, I will also record them. For example, there is a blind herb “Spined Ground Centipede” that also grows in Taiwan. When my friends are young, they decoct a single herb and cure the skin snake, so I write it down for reference. In the collection, there is a manuscript of “Reliable Prescriptions for the World” compiled by Wang Tan of Xiting, a man from Langfu, in the 21st year of Qianlong. The recipe is as vast as a vast ocean. Wu knows where he is going, and he must investigate its secrets. After hundreds of trials and hundreds of trials, he is the number one in the world. It should not be easy. In the past 30 years, tourists have traveled abroad. It is a treasure that can help people and things.” It is true that although the land is north and south, people also have deficiency, excess, cold and heat. Prescriptions are the accumulation of medical practitioners’ clinical experience for many years. come back to life.
Once an old woman had headaches day and night. Seeing another doctor can not be cured, but also the whole body pain. After the menstrual period, my great-grandfather Yu Ting Gongqi was diagnosed as “heart, liver, lung and kidney fire is too dry and hot”, and the headache stopped after taking 17 herbs such as Shi Cassia and Yuanshen. By his diagnosis and treatment, the old woman’s eyes will not cause pain and blindness. It can be seen that when the finger falls and the ruler is closed, it is necessary to accurately press the pulse to take the floating, sinking and slow astringency.
However, when a person gets sick, the six evils invade the human body, namely “wind, cold, summer heat, dampness, dryness, and fire”, and the seven emotions “joy, anger, thinking, worry, Sorrow, fear, and panic” disorder, which leads to the disorder of qi and blood in the viscera and causes diseases. Therefore, no matter whether it is food or medicine, the medicine can cure the disease, but it cannot cure the heart. Therefore, the emotional state of the person is the most likely to affect the health of the person. The daily exercise is even more important. The so-called activities are necessary to live. To move, to strike a balance between movement and stillness is the best policy.
Mr. Chen Lifu and his calligraphy< /span>
“Nurturing the body in motion, nourishing the mind in tranquility” is the secret of Mr. Chen Lifu’s longevity. At the same time, for more than 30 years, he wrote calligraphy every day to nourish his heart, so he lived a long life and lived to 103 years old. When my husband was 100 years old, I engraved a seal of “Lifu Yongshou” to congratulate him on his birthday. Unlike his usual habit of writing the contents of four books, he wrote the words “finely carved and lovely” as a gift to me, which moved me very much.
In addition, Mr. Lifu has spared no effort in promoting the research and preservation of traditional Chinese medicine throughout his life. Because of his longevity, there are many people looking for characters, so his calligraphy is ordered with different brush strokes and will be counted. Tens of millions of pen funds were all allocated to the “Lifu Medical Research Culture and Education Foundation”, and Chinese medicine in Taiwan was able to flourish.
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I once knew Mr. Ma Guangya, a Chinese doctor with excellent medical skills. He was from Xiangtan, Hunan. His father was a friend of Qi Baishi. The old man grinds ink and watches the old man paint and engrave. Later, he studied Chinese medicine from his grandfather Peng Wencai, and passed the Chinese medicine examination in 1947. After arriving in Taiwan, he hung the pot to save the world and kept himself clean. He is based in Shanghai Tongdetang Chinese Medicine in Taipei, and teaches at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences where Mr. Lifu is a director. Mr. Guangya is also good at poetry and calligraphy. He wrote a couplet for me when he was 86 years old, and I am grateful to this day. (Ye Guowei)