Why is Zhang Zhongjing called a "medical sage"? How superb is his medical skill?

Zhang Zhongjing was born in Nanyang in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases based on many years of medical experience and the prescriptions of previous medical books, which is also a classic for future generations to learn medicine. Zhang Zhongjing was honored as a "medical sage" by later generations.

On the first and fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Zhang Zhongjing, as an important official of the court, will treat guests in the lobby. You should go to the drugstore to see a doctor, but how can you be in the government office? It turns out that Zhang Zhongjing was born in a big family. He likes reading books since he was a child. He doesn't like his career, but he admires doctors. He was amazed when he saw that the doctor could adjust the sick bedridden people to be full of vitality. He usually concentrates on reading medical books. His family saw this situation and sent him to Yiguang as an apprentice.

Zhang Zhongjing, 10 years old, followed Master to collect and dry medicinal materials. Every patient that Master saw, Zhang Zhongjing recorded in detail the patient's condition and the condition after taking the medicine. If he heard of a strange prescription, he also asked and took notes. Not only did he learn from the teacher, but he also read many previous medical books, and soon his medical skills became famous in the local area.

In ancient times, there was a recommendation system called Ju Xiaolian. Zhang Zhongjing, who likes to be a doctor, is recommended as a satrap. In ancient times, officials could not go to ordinary people's homes casually, but many patients could not afford a doctor. Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing set a precedent, and he can consult for free on the fifteenth day of the first grade. Until now, people go to see Chinese medicine and say that Dr. XXX is in clinic today.

The last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty were extremely turbulent, and various battles made the people miserable, and the fugitives were displaced. This further aggravated the epidemic, and many people fell ill and died while fleeing. Even Zhang Zhongjing's own big family, ten years have passed, and there are only 70 people left from the original 200. Zhang Zhongjing carefully investigated the causes of death of these people and found that most of them died of typhoid fever.

He couldn't control the war, but he secretly made up his mind about the epidemic plague. He must devote himself to the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever and ensure that more people can avoid death. In order to find more ways, he traveled around. Once, he heard that there was a doctor hundreds of miles away who had a good cure for back pain, so he ran to learn from the doctor. People didn't want to tell anyone at first, but after hearing Zhang Zhongjing's name and admiration, they taught him.

Another time, a well-known doctor, who has treated people all his life, rarely made mistakes. His medical skills are well-known, but the old doctor is childless and refuses to accept disciples. Zhang Zhongjing went to do the ideological work of this old doctor and persuaded that saving people with the secret recipe of our ancestors is a virtue and good deed, and it cannot be lost because there is no inheritor in his generation.

He said to the old doctor, "You and I are both doctors, doctors and parents. Many people died of illness, and I wanted more people to be treated, so I wrote a prescription to benefit more people. I hope that you will also pass on your good medical skills to the younger generation. " With his efforts, the old doctor not only taught him lifelong medicine, but also took several apprentices.

In this way, Zhang Zhongjing combined his predecessors' medical books with his own practice and various remedies and prescriptions, and it took more than ten years to write the medical masterpiece Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which is another medical masterpiece after Huangdi Neijing, and also established Zhang Zhongjing's position as a "medical sage". In addition to Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Zhang Zhongjing also wrote Prescriptions for Evaluating Diseases, Prescriptions for Treating Women and Remarks. Until today, Treatise on Febrile Diseases is still an important medical book that Chinese medicine must read, and it has been translated into various languages in the world by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing is also a respected medical expert in the world.

Doctors are kind-hearted, which is a sense of mission and responsibility. This spirit can improve people's sense of self-worth and promote people to be positive. Just like Zhang Zhongjing, in the troubled times at that time, being an official may not save the people from fire and water, but practicing medicine can. So he treats people in the lobby, which is the sense of mission.