This is a popular old saying in the Central Plains, which means that if doctors prescribe more than 13 kinds of Chinese medicines, they need to carefully examine their medical skills.

Nowadays, doctors often like to write big prescriptions, often thirty or forty kinds of drugs, some of which are really effective, and I don't know which ones are effective.

Why is it popular in the Central Plains? This should start with doctor Zhang Zhongjing.

Some scholars have done rough statistics. First, according to Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, there are 3~7 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines on average, and only one side has more than 10 kinds of medicines. Secondly, according to the statistics of the latest edition of Prescription Science, a planning textbook for colleges and universities of traditional Chinese medicine, most of the herbs in each prescription are 4-8 flavors, with less than 15 flavors, only 2 prescriptions with more than 20 flavors, and all of them are pills.

Ming doctors prescribe drugs with a clear aim, blindly add and subtract drugs and choose words carefully, just like brilliant poets.

2, general attitude, not very enthusiastic

Because there are many patients, what they learn is different from that of traditional doctors. After years of explanation with the patient, the patient still insisted on the original idea. Therefore, after Dr. Ming found it difficult to communicate, he just told the patient what the disease was and could be cured, without too much explanation.

Hospitals with dirty money often provide very warm and thoughtful services. The explanation of the disease is connected with the latest research results in Europe and America and the traditional secret recipe of traditional Chinese medicine. In a word, medicine can cure diseases, but the living can't count.

3. Compared with famous doctors, the title of Ming doctor is pitiful.

Most doctors in the Ming Dynasty have only one standard answer, so they have no time to do scientific research, write papers and take various exams.

Therefore, compared with various famous doctors with less professional titles and junior qualifications, it is dry to introduce resumes to people.

Of course, as the largest gathering place of medical resources, the public hospital system is bound to have doctors who can distinguish between doctors and doctors. They may have many titles, or even be honored as masters of traditional Chinese medicine, or not many titles, but they are very famous in the circle of famous old Chinese medicine practitioners selected in various categories in private.

What is a wise doctor who knows the difference between yin and yang and is proficient in medicine? It is often effective to pay one or two drugs, and the effect recorded in the medical record is high-spirited.

4. Ming medicine is not a combination of four diagnoses.

Dr. Ming sees a doctor

(1) Some people like to feel their pulse, so don't say a word, because talking too much will interfere with judgment.

(2) Some people like you to say a few words, and then simply ask you a few words, aiming at the core of the disease, cut the gordian knot.

(3) Some people have confirmed your illness just by looking at the color and smelling, while others just go through the formalities. (The first person who feels the pulse may also combine this method. )

(4) Ask about the medical history in detail. Many points that you don't usually pay attention to will be asked, and the key points may be hidden inside. Such doctors are called symptom doctors and the evidence they see is correct.

5. Few Tibetans.

Some doctors in the Ming dynasty may have secret recipes, most of which were handed down from family. There are not many prescriptions, but the efficacy is magical, which is difficult for younger generations to surpass and can only be kept secret.

Most of the prescriptions prescribed by Ming doctors are classic prescriptions in ancient books, and even the taste and dosage of the medicine have not been added or subtracted. Because in their view, the prescription is not important, what matters is the process of diagnosis and the judgment of which prescription to use. If such doctors open their own clinics, they will be different from regular doctors with higher consultation fees, or balance the low or even free consultation fees by taking medicine in their own pharmacies.

6. The treatment methods are simple and diverse

At present, various new methods such as electroacupuncture therapy, needle knife and catgut embedding are frequent, which are not simple and will not be repeated here.

What is simplicity? For example, in winter, there was a patient with abdominal distension for many days, and the Ming doctor directly said that he would eat white radish, even being stingy with a prescription, and sent him away. However, the white radish in winter is fierce, and the abdominal distension naturally disappears after ventilation. As the saying goes, October radish and October ginseng, winter radish and summer ginger, don't bother the doctor to prescribe.

Or simply say a Chinese patent medicine and let you buy it yourself, that is, you don't charge for medical treatment and don't sell medicine.

In fact, this article can also be called: medical ethics of Ming doctors.

The above six points are not all the characteristics of Ming doctors, but I have chosen the judgment method, hoping to help you find Ming doctors in the sea of medicine.