How was the epidemic situation controlled in ancient times? Disappeared by yourself?

Historically, any country and any dynasty will be attacked by plague. Forget about foreign countries. Let's just say that as early as 3,000 years ago, there was a record of plague in Oracle Bone Inscriptions during the Shang Dynasty. Malaria? A sick year? Words such as ""have been recorded in the activities of sacrifice and divination. According to Deng Tuo's "The History of Rescuing the Famine in China", it is described in detail in the ancient history of China? Pandemic? ***260. Among them: Zhou Dynasty 1 time, Qin Dynasty 13 times, Wei and Jin Dynasties 17 times, Sui and Tang Dynasties 17 times, Song Dynasty 74 times, Ming Dynasty 64 times and Qing Dynasty 74 times. ?

Then how did they heal or disappear?

From ancient times to the present, the spread of plague is nothing more than three elements, namely, the source of infection, the route of transmission and the susceptible population. Therefore, there are three main ways for the ancients to control each outbreak.

First, cut off the source of infection.

Second, establish an epidemic isolation zone. According to the Book of Changes? Go in and out without illness, don't blame your friends? It means warning people that patients with diseases should not communicate with others to avoid mutual infection.

Third, take effective treatment and prevention and control measures. The invasion of the epidemic was sudden. In ancient times, Chao Huang also sent special court officials to carry out the policy of comforting the people in the disaster areas, and sent senior doctors to actively rescue the victims from the quagmire. They actively responded and treated patients with Chinese medicine in China, and took effective prevention and control measures, which achieved good results and finally made the epidemic disappear!

take for example

For example, under the Li Jia system of ancient villages, if there is an epidemic in the local area, the township head should be responsible for the epidemic, isolate the sick patients and report the suspected cases to the higher level government. The government will send special doctors to treat patients in this area.

Because the epidemic spread too fast, especially in densely populated cities, in order to prevent the epidemic from spreading on a large scale, the government will also set up special areas as isolation places, such as the Song Dynasty? Angie Fang? , the Qing dynasty? Foster families? Wait, these places are places where patients are centrally placed and treated. Even doctors or patients with whom patients come into contact should be observed in isolation for a period of time, which is somewhat similar to today's epidemic prevention measures.