Yuan mei after heatstroke

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        Night in the qing dynasty writer yuan mei "zhen", see one, documented how himself after heat treatment. Yuan mei, from a view of writers, poets, and pen to record the incident, the very real and vivid, interesting, also left a valuable historical materials to medicine.

        Qianlong 21 years (1759) in September, yuan mei has resigned, in jiangning (now nanjing) to acquire SuiShi waste garden, renamed "the garden", build room is settled for seven years, his poetry writing and daily travel. Maybe that was the year autumn in jiangning too hot, yuan mei unfortunately heatstroke. Family brought identified a doctor for him, after a diagnosis, the doctor wrote a prescription, pen lu instructions according to the medicine to drink. Morning drink lu the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, as a result, when the sun go down, yuan mei suddenly vomiting, dizzy. Yuan mei's mother held him let him sat on the bed, then he felt a flesh the involuntary, very afflictive, is never sure of. The family out in a rash, also do not have what way, don't watch him die? At this time, is also a coincidence, yuan mei, after having obtained the metropolitan examinations to join Zhao Licun visiting friends, family members had told him the condition of yuan mei. Some be Zhao Licun said: "I know, let me come and see." My family can't help but get Zhao Licun into the yuan mei's bedroom. Zhao Licun to yuan mei in the vein, observing the disease, smiled, said: "this is heatstroke, I has ever could." Zhao Licun wrote a prescription to speed to buy medicine, and buy some gypsum powder.

        Medicine soon cook good, plus some gypsum powder. A spoonful of down, yuan mei feel like stone of fateful, press down the intestines and stomach and upwelling of the flesh; but no longer. Half a bowl to drink, will have a deep sleep, not long out of the sweat on his forehead. Hazy, heard chanting in front of his mother: "is it ate elixir, how fast you worked." Later, yuan mei woke up and saw Zhao Licun also sits on his bed. Zhao Licun asked him: "don't want to eat watermelon? Yuan mei said: "you want to eat." Immediately and let the people go to buy watermelon. Zhao Licun said: "you tried to eat me first to go and have a rest." Yuan mei go, big big stuttering a watermelon, feeling like a sobering, no longer vertigo, eyes also not fuzzy, just want to have a meal in the evening.

        The next day, Zhao Licun again, talked about the disease: "you this is held by the disease, caused by heat stroke, and the doctor lu as the sun after the disease to treat, and with the cohosh, notopterygium two herbs of ascension, to make your blood upstream, only has ever white tiger decoction, or life dangerous."

        Zhao Licun turns out to be a famous doctor, according to the characters of traditional Chinese medicine dictionary: "Zhao Licun, clear acknowledgement, jiangxi nan fung, good heat syndrome." A few days later, Zhao Licun leave home, yuan mei wrote a poem for him: "I knew that he was old, live you turn away from the fear of disease is difficult to disappear." Zhao Licun "ha ha" laugh, also return the verse: "with tries mingguang man? It's a business head first." Yuan mei through poem deeply thank Zhao Licun for saving his life. (LiuYongJia of zaozhuang of shandong province)

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