External feelings and internal injuries, seven emotions and six lewdness, different people, one certificate and one side, what is the main way of Chinese medicine treatment? Let’s talk about the allusions with you and taste them together.
Hua Tuo was a famous doctor in the Eastern Han Dynasty. One day, officials Ni Xun and Li Yan both had a headache and fever, so they went to ask Hua Tuo for treatment.
Hua Tuo made two different prescriptions after careful observation and inquiry, and gave them the medicine to take home for decoction.
Ni Xun and Li Yan looked at the prescription and found that what they had prescribed for Ni Xun was cathartic, and what they had prescribed for Li Yan was an antidote. They thought: We all have headaches and fever. Why are the prescriptions different? Is Hua Tuo wrong? So they asked Hua Tuo for advice.
Hua Tuo explained that Ni Xun’s disease was due to his excessive diet. If his food was accumulated inside, he should purge his bowels and remove the internal heat; Li Yan’s illness was caused by the evil wind cold. He should clear away the wind and relieve the symptoms. The evil wind cold goes with the sweat, and his headache will be cured.
Ni Xun and Li Yan were very convinced, so they went home to make medicine and drink it. As expected, they were cured soon.
an antidote against the disease
TCM emphasizes “syndrome differentiation and treatment”, which means that although the symptoms are the same, the causes of the disease are different, so the treatment methods are also different. We should not deal with them just because of appearances, but explore the causes.
Later, people often use the metaphor of “suit the remedy to the case” to describe how to deal with problems in different ways according to different situations.
