Zhang Zhongjing is known as the Sage of Medicine because he was the first to put forward the idea of dialectical treatment, as well as the creation of the six-meridian dialectical method, these contributions are unprecedented, and this has nothing to do with his life expectancy.

We can not confuse the concept of medicine is to solve the human health, he is not to solve the human life expectancy, every person will have the old, sick and dying, and doctors are no exception, and some doctors are not good health, this is because in the face of disease everyone is equal, in order to live a healthier life, in addition to the medical skills, but also should usually be strengthened to maintain the cultivation of the body and temperament, Zhang Zhongjing, although the medical skills of the high and mighty, but in the era of famine, plague epidemic era, people's diet and food are problems, in that time, people can survive is already very easy. Zhang Zhongjing, although his medical skills were brilliant, but in the era of famine and plague, there were problems with people's diet and sustenance, and at that time, it was not easy for people to survive, and he was already considered to be a long-lived man at the age of 50 or 60 years old at that time.

Now, there are a lot of doctors are not long life, which is not only with the life diet, but also with the nature of the work day and night labor related, there are a lot of doctors, although the medical skills, but there is not much time to focus on health. So there are good medical skills can only maximize the solution to the problem of disease, in order to live a long life, but also must be to the emperor's internal scripture inside that, from the diet, life, work and rest in all aspects of the start to regulate.

I am a Chinese medicine practitioner, I have a personal experience, if which period of time in order to take the exam, to review, but also to work, see patients body fatigue, plus usually lack of exercise, I feel the body is somewhat overwhelmed, and so on my exam season, usually off work, in addition to the book, has been insisting on exercise, feel the energy is slowly recovered.

Sixty-five, definitely considered a high life expectancy at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Why, according to scholarly research: the average life expectancy of adult men during the two Han periods was only 30 years.

There are several factors that account for the short lives of the ancients.

First, there were frequent wars, especially at the end of the Han Dynasty, when Zhongjing lived, and during the Three Kingdoms period, wars were commonplace.

Secondly, due to the limited sanitary conditions, the plague was rampant. According to Zhang Zhongjing's own description, only in the twenty-second year of Jian'an, the hostility was prevalent, resulting in "the pain of zombies in every house, and the sorrow of sobbing in every room." Originally, the Zhang family, which was a big family in Neiyang County, Nanyang County, Henan Province, because of this natural disaster, the Zhang family, which had more than 200 people, passed away more than 100 people. For this reason, healing the sick and saving lives became Zhang Ji's lifelong pursuit.

Third, the Han Dynasty agriculture, low food production, fat fields can have "mu harvest three dendrobium", even if the high yield. So it can be guessed that the ordinary people, not poisoned to death by germs, that is, for years and years of living in the days of starvation. In this way, not pull down the disease is strange.

Fourth, as a famous doctor, Zhang Zhongjing in addition to the daily treatment of patients, the night also have to write books, often stay up all night.

Combining these points, the Medical Saint actually really tried his best, and he also wanted to write a few more books to impart more clinical experience.

Zhang Zhongjing's contribution to Chinese medicine should be unprecedented.

According to the evidence: born in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, he lived to 69 years old; in terms of the present conditions, Zhang Zhongjing as a medical saint, quite a study of traditional Chinese medicine, why did not, as discussed in the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine", become a "degree of a hundred years of age without decline" of the supreme man and a real person?

The main cause is the result of accumulated work:

First, he is the governor of Changsha, in its position and to seek its own politics, which is its main business, can not be neglected.

Secondly, he has to devote a lot of his spare time to see the doctor, which consumes his essence and overdraws his body in the long run.

Third, he diagnosis and treatment and work, but also to write books, such as "typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases" and other books, from his pen.

Think about it. How can he take protection from the plague that he often sees and inevitably gets sick? How can he take a leisure vacation when his labor is so intense?

Besides, Zhang Zhongjing was called the saint of medicine, that is, the category of saints, and real people, compared to the people, the way of health or a gap, but the gap, belonging to the historical conditions and the environment caused by why Shanghai and Hong Kong nowadays centenarians are common, or the overall health conditions, social and medical care is high, and so on.

It is also important to note that the length of a person's lifespan is also inextricably linked to genetic factors, which account for 25% of its impact.

Look again, there are still many old Chinese doctors among centenarians today, such as Deng Tietao, a famous old Chinese doctor in Guangdong, who lived to be 104 years old, see Deng Tietao's photo.

By extension, Zhang Zhongjing's medical skills and training, living in today's Changsha, Hunan Province, a life expectancy of more than a hundred years is also entirely possible.

Zhang Zhongjing (c. 150-154 AD - c. 215-219 AD), known as Ji (名機), with the character Zhongjing (仲景), was a native of Nanyang Nieyang County in the Eastern Han Dynasty (present-day Zhangzhai Village, Rangdong Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province). He was a famous medical practitioner at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was honored as the Sage of Medicine by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing collected a wide range of medical prescriptions and wrote the legendary masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever". It established the principle of diagnosis and treatment, which is the basic clinical principle of Chinese medicine and the soul of Chinese medicine.

In the area of prescription science, the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases also made great contributions, creating many dosage forms and recording a large number of effective prescriptions. The therapeutic principles of the six meridians established in the Treatise have been highly respected by medical practitioners throughout the ages. This is the first medical monograph in China that establishes the rules of diagnosis and treatment from theory to practice, and it is one of the most influential works in the history of Chinese medicine. It is an essential classic for later scholars to study Chinese medicine, and has been widely emphasized by medical students and clinical doctors.

Death of Zhang Zhongjing

Zhang Zhongjing had high medical ethics and compassion for the people, and spent his days in the private sector to save the lives of the people.

After a long period of physical and mental fatigue, the accumulated labor became a disease, more than 60 years old Zhang Zhongjing's on the world.

Therefore, Zhang Zhongjing also responded to the exclamation that "the healer cannot heal himself".

Zhang Zhongjing grew up with a passion for medicine, and when he was young, he studied medicine with Zhang Bozu of the same county, and after years of hard study and clinical practice, his medical reputation was greatly enhanced, and he became an outstanding medical doctor in the history of Chinese medicine.

Zhang Zhongjing lived at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, an extremely turbulent time in Chinese history, characterized by frequent wars, epidemics, and displacement of people.

Zhang Zhongjing's family was a big family, with a population of more than 200 people. Since the early years of Jian'an, in less than ten years, two thirds of the people died of epidemics, of which those who died of typhoid fever accounted for seven-tenths of the total. In the face of the plague, Zhang Zhongjing was very angry, in Changsha during the governor, he in the management of political affairs, but also in the lobby of the hall, practicing medicine, for the people to give medical diagnosis, save many people's lives.

In order to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing, people later referred to the doctors who sat in pharmacies or stores to treat people as "sitting doctors". Later, Zhang Zhongjing resigned from his post as the governor of Changsha and devoted himself to studying the diagnosis and treatment of typhoid fever, seriously summarizing the medical theories and experiences of his predecessors, and collecting a wide range of folk remedies, so as to write the monumental medical masterpiece "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases".

The Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever is the earliest clinical diagnosis and treatment book in China, which systematically analyzes the causes, symptoms, stages of development and treatment of typhoid fever, creatively establishes the principle of dialectical treatment of typhoid fever, and lays down the theoretical foundation of reasoning, methodology, formulae, and medicines. The book also contains more than 300 selected prescriptions, which are more concise in drug formulation, clear in main diagnosis, and have been proven to have high efficacy after thousands of years of clinical practice, and provide the basis for the development of Chinese medicine prescription science. Many prescriptions are developed from it. It can be said that this medical book melts the rationale, method, prescription and medicine in one furnace, opening the dialectical treatment of the precedent, forming a unique system of Chinese medical thought, for the promotion of the development of later generations of medicine has played a huge role.

After reading these books, Hua Tuo, a famous doctor, said with admiration, "This is really a book for living people", and Yu Jiayan highly praised Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Typhoid Fever, saying, "It is the ancestor of all the prescriptions."

Throughout the ages, there have been many works on the exegesis and explication of this book, and its influence has gone far beyond national boundaries, and it has had a great impact on Asian countries such as Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.

Zhang Zhongjing's life is very rich in medical writings, but unfortunately most of them have been lost, leaving only the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and "The Essentials of the Golden Poverty", which, together with the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" and the "Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica" are known as "the four classics of traditional Chinese medicine", and Zhang Zhongjing accounted for two of them, which occupies a special position among the most influential writings in the history of China's medical development. It occupies a special position among the most influential works in the history of China's medical development.

Zhang Zhongjing was honored as the "Sage of Healing" by later generations for his outstanding contributions to medicine, and his tomb and memorial site is therefore called the "Sage of Healing Shrine". The Medical Sage Shrine is located in the eastern suburb of Nanyang City on the banks of Wenliang River, and has been expanded through the generations to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and has taken shape, and the existing building is a Qing Dynasty building.

Medical Shrine in front of the towering imitation of the Han Zimu Que, Han Que on the Vermilion Bird face south and stand, spreading their wings ready to fly. The gate on the forehead of Guo Moruo inscription of the "Shrine of the Medical Sage" glittering. Crossing the gate, a three-meter-square stone screen and stand, the front is engraved with "Zhang Zhongjing biography", the back is engraved with Zhang Zhongjing's "Preface to the Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases".

As for Zhang Zhongjing's life age, the college textbook "History of Chinese Medicine" records "about 150~219", and the online information is "about 150~154 AD~about 215~219 AD", so it can be seen that there is no accurate record, and he lived about 69 years according to the "History of Chinese Medicine". According to the "History of Chinese Medicine", he lived to be about 69 years old.

Zhang Zhongjing was born at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, frequent wars, epidemics, the people to avoid the war and fled one after another, displaced no less than millions, the first year of Emperor Xian's Chuping (190), Dong Zhuo hostage the Emperor Xian and Luoyang area of the millions of residents of the west to move to Chang'an, Luoyang, all the palaces, houses were burned down, within a radius of two hundred miles of all scorched earth, the people died on the way of the displacement of uncountable people, "white bones exposed in the wild, thousands of miles without the cock's song" (Cao Cao "Artemisia"). The people died in their displacement, and "white bones were exposed in the wild, and no chickens crowed for thousands of miles" (Cao Cao's "Artemisia Row").

There were three epidemics during the reign of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty, five epidemics during the reign of Emperor Ling, and even more during the reign of Emperor Xian's Jian'an. Thousands of people were consumed by the disease. Thousands of people were devoured by the disease, resulting in the unprecedented calamity of nine empty rooms. In particular, the disease epidemics of 171, 173, 179, 182 and 185 AD during the reign of Emperor Lingdi of the Eastern Han Dynasty (168-188 AD) were the largest in scale. The Nanyang area also suffered from a succession of plague epidemics, which killed many people.

Zhang zhongjing "typhoid miscellaneous diseases - preface" cloud: "Yu clan so much, to the remaining two hundred, Jianan chronicle since, but not ten ripe, its deaths of two out of three, typhoid ten in its seven". Therefore, whether it is 65 years old or 69 years old, at that time has been a high life expectancy.

At the same time, Zhang Zhongjing was first of all a politician, who had been the governor of Changsha, because he hated the official corruption, "feeling the decline of the past, hurt prematurely and horizontally can not be rescued" ("Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases - Preface"), was to give up his official duties from the medical, furious study of medicine, and wrote an epoch-making medical tome, which is the historical turning point from the surgical operation to the non-destructive diagnostic and treatment. Its great contribution is immeasurable, and it is impossible for him to specialize in health care.

Especially for those who really understand health care, the highest state of health care is not to talk about health care, spiritual life is always higher than material life, a moment is eternity, for those who have made great contributions to the country and the people, the life span is even shorter than the most long-lived people, Zhang Zhongjing is with the Chinese culture, with the world of medicine, and with the heaven and the earth, the sun and the moon.

In Zhang Zhongjing's time, that is, more than 1,000 years ago, an ordinary citizen (Zhang Zhongjing became famous after his death) can live to 65 years old is already quite a high life expectancy, think about it, that is, how many years can an emperor live? Be satisfied.

Although Zhang Zhongjing was honored by later generations as a medical saint, he did not seem to be a doctor, in fact, neither the history nor the legend has not recorded the story of his healing patients, he was famous because a big name doctor called Sun Simiao in the discovery of Zhang Zhongjing's "Typhoid Fever Treatise" greatly appreciated and therefore modified his medical writings before the famous.

Don't confuse medical saints with their longevity, do the so-called, diabetes specialists, cardio-vascular specialists, etc. now live long lives? .......

That's a fun question!Do doctors always live longer? Medicine can play a role in the matter of life and death, but it is not decisive!

As the saying goes, "a doctor can't heal himself," and doctors are not a panacea, let alone a guarantee of longevity!

A famous doctor like Zhang Zhongjing, who was hanging his pot to help the world, spent his whole life running around, treating the sick and saving the people is something that takes energy, and it is inevitable that he would get sick from the strain.

The reason why Zhang Zhongjing is known as the "Sage of Healing" is not only because of his excellent medical skills. In terms of medical skills alone, Hua Tuo is not far behind, after all, he is the one who dared to open Cao Cao's head.

Zhang Zhongjing is better known for his medical ethics!

Living in a chaotic world like the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhongjing had seen too many corpses strewn everywhere after the plague ravaged the country, and too many poor people dying because of untreated diseases. With a heart to save the world, he was not afraid of hard work, writing prescriptions and grabbing medicines to help the dead and the injured.

When he was an official, due to the rule that officials could not enter people's houses at will, he moved his place of consultation to the lobby of the Yamen, and every first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, he would offer free medical treatment to the people. This is the origin of "sitting doctor".

Then later, he resented the darkness of the officialdom and resigned to return to his hometown to concentrate on medical treatment.

In addition, Zhang Zhongjing was also a master of medical science, and his Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases is a heirloom masterpiece, a sacred text of Chinese medicine. It was compiled and summarized by him through years of clinical experience and collecting medical prescriptions from all over the world. This was a huge amount of work!

With so many accomplishments, all of which required time and energy to accomplish, Zhang Zhongjing inevitably became ill from his accumulated labor.

Even in those days when pharmacology was not very sophisticated, it was very likely that as a healer, you would try the medicine on your body, which could lead to physical damage.

And 65 is old enough. You think it's now? At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty nearly 2,000 years ago, when plague was rampant, famine ravaged the country, and nine out of ten people died, this definitely qualifies as a high life expectancy.

So the question of "only living 65 years" is completely unnecessary.

The length of a person's life cannot be determined by whether or not they are healthy, or how old they are, or whether or not they know how to practice medicine. Western medicine doesn't see everyone living a long life either! Let me tell you an example. Years ago, there was a woman in her forties or fifties in my hometown who appeared to be healthy and had no illnesses. Yesterday, she went out to the street to buy something, but the next morning her family found that she had passed away, so what do you say? There is also an old man in his seventies or eighties who still went out on the street that day and died in the middle of the night the next day. There are people who have been sick in their beds for several years and have not died, and there are people who are fine and suddenly die.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, now not into the small diseases are terminal, and the frequency of plague than now (see my previous answers, not to repeat), Chinese medicine treatment of plague, the effective rate is still a mystery, in this premise, Zhang Zhongjing lived 65 years is already a high life expectancy.