"Orange well almond shaped" allusions in TCM

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Apricot, has close relationship with "d". In the ancient book "cure a wood" is refers to the medical profession, people often "almond shaped" as "cure a wood". On the patient to give thanks to the doctor and plaques, often visible to "almond shaped spring warm", "famous almond shaped" kind of virgin pages. This association, apricot and medicine from the medical history in our country a famous allusions.

In the chin dynasty about 1700 years ago in The Three Kingdoms period, the famous doctor Dong Feng, lushan mountain in seclusion. He and hua tuo, zhang zhongjing together, is called "take a (eastern han dynasty emperor offered: 1) three imperial doctor". According to historical records, there is a patient who has "death" to three days, to "the dead" Dong Feng mouth into a pill, to fill in some boiled water, and gently shake its head, the pill slowly into the "dead" in the belly. After a meal, "the dead" open your eyes, hand, foot and start activities; After half a day, can sit up; Four days later, speak; A few more days, was completely restored to health. This "the dead", of course, the original is not true "death", just may be a profound shock, but can see Dong Feng medical skill.

By later generations for 美谈, is Dong Feng to see people don't accept money, only for very sick people after recovery of 5 strains of almond, light disease recovered after 1 strains almond. After many years, was planted more than 100000 strains of almond trees lush almond shaped. Apricot mature, crabapple, covered with branches. He built a cottage industry of apricot between almond shaped, someone to buy him apricot, he don't accept money, and let people use the millet to change. He spent with apricot for millet full relief for the poor, relief of more than 20000 people a year. This is the origin of "almond shaped" allusions.

Dong Feng deeds, to our country has enormous influence on the later generations of medical, they take some apricots for their name, take some apricots for the title of his book, even the name of medical groups, medical journals often use "apricot" word, such as "almond shaped medicine club", the almond shaped, medicine and so on. Preference for the apricot, and almond shaped and esteem, reflects the medical scientist in our country has always been despising to medical benefit, advocating "aid poor sickness" heart and soul "almond shaped spirit".

In addition to "almond shaped" and "well" tangerine allusions, also known in medical history.

According to legend, when Chinese emperor (about 2 century BC), in this bin is the district of hunan, there is a man called Sue tarry, childhood dead father, and mother lived in the suburbs, lived alone. Sue spend very filial piety to mother, neighborhood receive the praise. When he is going to die, in the mind still remember old mother, and said to her: "the next pandemic, the world will be popular. My family courtyard has a well, next to a citrus tree. As long as well a liter, orange leaves, decoct soup YinFu, disease will heal." In the second year, really like Sue long said, there had been a terrible plague. Sue mother not only with the method of the son accuse, make oneself survive die of the plague, and give disease patients, the well water and orange Ye Guang saved thousands of lives.

According to medical history scholars research, Sue was a real man, his former residence in the original could (and later was transformed into "orange well view"; Orange now well sites, also in the well's mouth, round, about 0.5 meters in diameter, and water in the well, but the well orange trees has disappeared, only a tree can be seen grapefruit tree. "Well" tangerine allusion, is out of such a legend story, and the resulting idioms such as "sweet" orange well flow. Du fu in the song gave a poem to his state of the relatives, has two sentences is "his state is quite cold, cold, orange is sorrow", is to use the allusions.

The two medical allusions, Lin was named "orange well almond shaped," and, in the air to add a lot of mythology. Legend says Sue long, Dong Feng became immortal, also said that the tiger god for Dong Feng almond shaped, thus has the notion of "tiger almond shaped". Sue's death is not the general's death, but said to return to the "fairy", and called Sue long "Su Xian male". In the classical literary classics "liao zhai zhi yi" wrote a story about "Su Xian"; Now his state and Su Xianling, fantastic Su Xian view, sendai, etc. Immortal like that of course is not credible; But in people's minds, almond shaped with tiger come to the solemn, orange well, of course, also cannot abandon, dragon, tiger is relative, therefore, took the watch orange well to the task of a dragon. Almond shaped "as a result, from the" orange well, they might become "dragon PAM orange Wells, almond shaped" tiger that two other relative idioms, some even write it further a couplet: "wang almond shaped with tiger, Sue home dragon PAM on the orange well."