What is the reason that since ancient times, most of the masters of Chinese medicine have been self-taught?
What is the reason that since ancient times, most of the masters of Chinese medicine have been self-taught?
The old saying goes: quacks are seven out of ten. Because Chinese medicine is profound and vast. Without enlightenment, perseverance and determination to help the world, it is impossible to achieve medical excellence.
Several of Zhu Danxi's family members died at the hands of quacks, and when he was 40 years old, his wife was also killed by a quack. At that time, Zhu Danxi's teacher was paralyzed and said that Zhu Danxi had a high level of enlightenment and was suitable for studying medicine. He said, "My disease can only be cured for me when you come back from your study.
Zhu Danxi then made up his mind to learn medicine, and he started with the Huangdi Neijing and the theory of typhoid fever, marking the places he didn't understand. A year or so later, Zhu Danxi went to Hangzhou to study under a master. That famous doctor was named Luo Zhi Ti (c. 1243-1327), a famous medical doctor in the late Song and early Yuan dynasties.
At this time Luo Zhi Ti has been paralyzed in bed, unable to give medical treatment. He relied on his disciples to tell him his condition after seeing and hearing him, and he gave him prescriptions.
Zhu Danxi wanted to be his teacher, but Luo Zhi Ti refused to accept him. Zhu Danxi stood in front of Luo Zhiti's door every day, even on snowy days. He stood there for more than three months. When Luo Zhi Ti saw that Zhu Danxi was sincere in his quest for learning, he agreed to take him as his disciple. Luo Zhi Ti taught Zhu Danxi everything he had learned in his life. A year later, Luo Zhi Ti passed away. Zhu Danxi and his brothers and sisters buried his teacher and returned to his hometown of Yiwu, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province. He stewed a pot of beef medicinal food for the teacher to eat, and the paralyzed teacher vomited a pot of phlegm and then could walk.
Zhu Danxi later started a sect and became the head of the Yin-raising sect.
Yue Meizhong, a famous modern doctor who was deeply favored by Premier Zhou, was also self-taught.
Yue Meizhong was born in 1905 and was 20 years old in 1925 when he was an elementary school teacher, at which time he got tuberculosis and vomited blood. In 1925, there was no western medicine, such as rifampicin, to treat tuberculosis, which was an incurable disease. At that time, all the famous doctors said that they could not cure it and told him to go home and wait for death. Yue Meizhong did not want to die! He bought Zhang Xichun's medical books, with one of the prescription, I guess it should be that tonic tube tonic soup, cured tuberculosis. From then on, he fell in love with Chinese medicine, and when he was no longer an instructor, he devoted himself to the study of Chinese medical texts every day. Later became a famous Chinese medicine practitioner, won the favor of Premier Zhou, as Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and other central leaders of the health care doctor, but also by Premier Zhou sent abroad several times to foreign presidents to treat the disease, for the country to win the glory.
Why are all famous doctors self-taught? It is because they all studied Chinese medicine on their own in order to cure the sick and live. Either they wanted to save themselves, or they wanted to save others, or they aspired to help the world and the living, so they studied intensely and tirelessly all their lives.
Aspirations should be set high, and those who wish for greatness achieve greatness.
Unlike people nowadays, who take a medical school entrance examination to support their families, their aspirations are too small, and those with small aspirations achieve little. How many Chinese medicine practitioners who have graduated from Chinese medicine colleges are master Chinese medicine practitioners?

Many Chinese medicine practitioners are sick themselves or their family members, and Western medicine did not work, and then they began to seek treatment, and gradually embarked on the path of self-study. So there will be insights into the use of medicine in one way or another. I am so, although since childhood to learn medical knowledge, but has always been in order to make a living choose to work outside, their own and their families have small illnesses and pains on the use of traditional Chinese medicine to solve the problem, I remember that in 1988, my eldest son was more than a year old, long-term diarrhea, what to eat what to eat, near a few doctors say it is gastroenteritis can be to take medication and injections do not see the effect of the anti-inflammatory drugs to digestive water based on the son, looked at the wasting, I decided to use their own way. I decided to use my own way, first of all, listen to the old man said with guava leaves forging ash boiled water, and then look at Chinese medicine books on children's diarrhea class formula, found that the Lizhong Tang should be symptomatic, but also know that there is Lizhong Pills this medicine, the last visit to the doctor I asked the doctor with a hard head, the child is not such a fire in the stomach to the end of the grain does not melt? The doctor said that Chinese medicine is so, I asked again, Li Zhong Wan is not to support the stomach fire, he said yes, in fact, I just want to confirm through the doctor's confidence in themselves. Recognized, I quietly to another pharmacy to buy three Rizhong Pills, each soaked in boiling water in three instillation, a day down to see the child pulled sparse, mental appetite are good, and see the stool formed, continue to eat the rest of the end, two or three days after all the symptoms have disappeared, but also with the village children play happily. From then on, I really believe in the magical effects of Chinese medicine, three wax pills than a few nearby Western doctors are useful, not that they can not, because their learning is the Western medicine theory that set, from then on I became a Chinese medicine powder, three children's childhood and growing up in the stage did not have to be hospitalized, but also rarely use Western medicine, in contrast to the children, a little cold and flu hospitalized in the suspension of saline, a cold is pneumonia and bronchitis, this is the Excessive treatment, and now even cold and fever are blood tests, really fucking bullshit! Has the doctor considered the damage to the child's body?
If you are not a good physiognomist, you are a good doctor. There are very few TCM doctors in public hospitals who know pulse diagnosis, they are academics. There are still a lot of Chinese medicine practitioners who know pulse diagnosis in the private sector, and they are hidden dragons and crouching tigers with a strong vitality! They are the soil and roots of Chinese medicine. Pulse diagnosis must be gifted, they are the teachers of Chinese medicine doctors. The "cut" must be gifted, the back of the hand is upturned, like a curved moon, in order to have a sense of touch, otherwise you can't have a sense of touch even if you have studied for 100 years, and you can never be a famous master of Chinese medicine! Age: 45-50 years old (with rich knowledge and experience). You also need to have talent (upturned back of the hand), first motivation (want to save your loved ones), clinical guidance from a teacher of TCM, financial basis to secure a family life, and enough time. Otherwise it is difficult to succeed.
There used to be a saying (a long illness makes a doctor), I think it is very reasonable, I have experience and experience, now the general problems can be solved simply by themselves, (there is nothing difficult in the world is afraid of the person who has a heart), (there is nothing difficult in the world is afraid of the person who has a heart).
This is a particularly important topic. Many people think that the only way to become successful is to go to a prestigious school.

- Psychologically speaking, the reason why people are able to become successful:
- The first is to be able to discover yourself, to explore yourself in terms of your own potential before you can truly become successful.
- Secondly, true talent requires a sense of enlightenment, an open mind and the ability to constantly innovate.
Throughout history and reality, masters in whatever industry are actually so self-taught and innovative.

Let us take Li Shizhen as an example. He was a famous medicine man in the Ming Dynasty. In his early years, he had taken the imperial examination three times without success. Faced with the failure of the imperial examination, Li Shizhen finally gave up the examination and resolved to practise medicine and take a path that suited him and could benefit the people.
There is even a saying in history that he "studied for ten years without leaving home". The content of his reading covered all sages, history, scriptures, biographies, sound, rhyme, agriculture, medicine, divination, astrology, physiognomy and music.
Li Shizhen from Jiajing 44 years (1565), has to Wudang Mountain, Mount Lu, Mount Mao, Niu Shou Mountain and Lake Canton, South Zhili, Henan, North Zhili and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions, and worship fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, car drivers, medicine workers, snake catchers as teachers, just reference to the medical and other aspects of the books of the past generations there are 925 kinds of books, "archaeological evidence of the present, and the exhaustive study of physics "He recorded tens of millions of words of notes and clarified many difficult questions. After 27 summers and three drafts, the first draft of "Compendium of Materia Medica" was completed in the 18th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1578).
He was 61 years old that year. It was then revised three times over a period of 10 years, totaling nearly 40 years. It was only in the third year after his death (1593 A.D.) that the 1.92 million-word Compendium of Materia Medica was officially published in Nanjing.

Chinese medicine is the motherland's medical treasure trove, there are thousands of years of inheritance are years of experience in smelting. Most of them come from the folk. I can not smelt because of some of the old chronic diseases, only to find some self-governing methods of exploration, very effective and do not spend money on their own feel very gratified, so long into a eunuch doctor. I know that Chinese medicine can not only cure diseases, but also health care and longevity.
It is true that there are masters of Chinese medicine who are self-taught, both ancient and modern. Ancient sages established in nature's universal laws of understanding, the unity of man and nature. It is the ancient working people and the disease struggle summed up the experience of the sages through the practice of verification, modification written into books, repeated guidance practice to date. Sage masters of Chinese medicine, generally have a high cultural background, Xiu Cai above the cultural level to the following Hanlin scholar, some of them are still official born medical practitioners. If you do not become a good minister, you will become a good doctor. With the belief of helping the world's people, saving the world's confidence and determination to specialize in medicine, occupying the love of medicine's talent and enlightenment, and tenacity and perseverance, reasoning, understanding, to specialize in the achievements of the medical profession. Without the confidence to help the world, it is impossible for a doctor to achieve superb medical technology.
To learn Chinese medicine, one must be interested, and more importantly, one must be enlightened. If a Chinese medicine practitioner trained in a school has only book knowledge and does not digest and summarize it, it is difficult for him to become a famous doctor. Most famous doctors come from the private sector, most of them were interested in Chinese medicine when they were young, and very talented, familiar with the medical books, most of them can take their own medicine, their own cure, like Shennong tasted all kinds of herbs, and accumulated practical experience, to become a party of medical experts.
I just go up to the mountains to collect medicine, cure myself, but also for others to cure, and gradually summed up the experience, Chinese herbal medicine is indeed not some people think "useless", because do not know people, it is the roots of the grass, the roots of the tree. For example, the treatment of reflux esophagitis, some herbs can cure the "root", perhaps most people do not believe, but I did cure many people, including my wife, very good. Unfortunately, these herbs grow too slowly and are deep in the mountains, so every time I dig it's hard and I can't dig much.
The master leads the way, the practice is up to the individual. Masters can not be self-taught, but he must have a leader to become a success. Each of us is the same, in the success of the time to know how to be grateful, because in the success of the road, are not lonely, there are teachers and friends in the company, not their own birth is a genius.
Learning Chinese medicine first learn the basic theory, do study while comprehending the internal letter, and then enter the clinical with the learned theory to guide practice, through decades of clinical experience summarized a set of proven treatment methods, in the treatment of each disease at the same time, I have to have a strong "wu", the "wu" word, is on behalf of the medical practitioner to the disease of the identification of treatment methods, rational formulation of reasoning, method, formula, medicine, and the analysis of the transformation of the disease and the ability to correctly judge. The word "enlightenment" stands for the doctor's ability to identify and treat the disease, the rational formulation of reasoning, method, formula and medicine, and the ability to analyze and correctly judge the transformation of the disease.
Masters of Chinese medicine to become a self-taught, in fact, a body from the doctor, is in the treatment of work, can master the return of the disease, and constantly explore and summarize a set of effective treatment methods, comfortable with the analysis and judgment of the disease, the flexible use of medicines and prescriptions, which can not be separated from the "enlightenment", "enlightenment", is the disease, reason, method, prescription, medicine understanding ability also! The ability to understand the disease, the rationale, the method, the prescription, and the medicine!
The doctor, the master of the Division, the opposite of its "killing" meaning, a master of the road to success, no better than the "Great Medical Sincerity' also!
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