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Volume One

On the Sublime Sincerity of the Eminent Doctor

LINE ONE

In Eastern Jin Dynasty, a distinguished health maintenance expert Zhang Zhan ever mentioned: “It would be a kind of odyssey to be proficient in the fundamental classics of traditional Chinese medicine for anyone who determine to master it.”

Since the same cause of disease may demonstrate different symptoms and similar symptoms do not always signify a common etiology. The body's internal organs could not be detected only by watching or listening. Whether the five viscera(heart, spleen, liver, lungs, and kidneys) and six hollow organs (gallbladder, stomach, large intestine, small intestine, bladder, and san jiao) suffer from plethora or anemia and whether the basic blood circulation under a good condition both need close scrutiny to the patients’ pulse.

The Cun, Guan, and Chi divisions of the Cunkou (the pulsation of the radial artery) may be floating or sunken, taut or tense; the circulation of Qi and blood through the acupoints may be upward or downward, shallow or deep; and the skin, muscle, and bones may be thick, or thin, strong or weak. Only experienced masters who are quite sensitive enough to catch every nuance can be qualified discussers to such a delicate and subtle theory.

It is a dangerous adventure if any unqualified doctors wrongly use their own superficial understandings to simplify the broad and profound theory!

LINE TWO

If asthenia syndrome is treated with nourishing therapy, asthenia syndrome with purging therapy, incontinence with drainage therapy, constipation with blockage therapy, cold syndrome with cold therapy, and heat syndrome with warm therapy, it would make the disease even worse and accomplish the very opposite outcomes. The quack tries to save the patients but the patients who are tested may confront a fatal risk.

Medical skill, as well as the divination skill both, are quite difficult to be good at. Without divine revelations and inspirations to talented few people, who can absorb this abstruse genuine knowledge easily and correctly?

Nowadays, there are some arrogant shallow trainees who have a tiny sip of medical knowledge and few years of clinical experience but wrongly claim that there are no diseases they could not treat. However, after three years’ battle with certain chronic diseases, they have to admit that there are no ready-made prescriptions to be always applicable and useful.

LINE THREE

So those who determine to devote themselves to a medical career must search out the origin of medicine theory extensively with a broad perspective and study diligently with a prudent attitude. Never believe in any second accounts or hearsay without tested. If they dare to boast that they have already mastered all the knowledge of medicine, they will fall into the wrong path definitely.

The DAYI (great doctors)treat patients, they must keep calm and concentrated upon their patients without any desire and avarice. They have a strong sympathy for the patients and sincerely hope to save the suffered from suffering.

If the patients come to ask for help, they would not treat them differently according to any discrimination, patients will be equally treated no matter they are rich or poor, old or young, beautiful or ugly, enemy or friends, Chinese or foreigners, and foolish or intelligent. Any patients would be loved as the close relatives of doctors.

LINE FOUR

During the treatment process, The DAYI (great doctors) should be courageous and wise, should not hesitate to move forward in order to avoid any medical risk for their own sake. Being doctors, they should regard patients’ suffering as their own and have deep sympathy for them all the time.

Confronted with dangerous infections, they should not pay too much attention to protect themselves but discharge their duty. No matter in the daytime or night and in winter or summer, and no matter when they are hungry or thirsty and tired or exhausted, they should work hard for the patient's heart and soul without any delay and contemplation for personal gain or loss.

Only by doing so can one become The genuine DAYI (a great doctor) with a good reputation. Otherwise, he may become a scourge in the view of patients.

From ancient times, celebrated doctors ever have to treat patients with certain animals alive. Although it is believed that animals are humble and human beings are noble. However, in terms of the love for life, human beings and animals are the same.

To kill one for saving another is regarded as a disaster even in the animal world, let alone human beings! To sacrifice certain animals in life to save human beings from dying actually deviates from the correct principles of saving a life.

LINE FIVE

To kill one for saving another is regarded as a disaster even in the animal world, let alone human beings! To sacrifice certain animals in life to save human beings from dying actually deviates from the correct principles of saving a life.

That is the reason that all prescriptions recorded in my book have excluded the use of live animals.

Some insects, like horsefly and leech which were dead before being sold on the market, can be bought and used in prescriptions. This is another matter. The only exception is the usage of egg which is in an undeveloped stage and can only be used under emergency as a last resort.

Those who do not use any animals in life are worthy of the name DAYI (great doctors).

Even I could not dare to claim to achieve such a high standard. Sometimes patients are suffering from scabies or dysentery with foul smell and unpleasant sight which looks disgusting. But for a doctor with deep sympathy toward their patients will ignore this completely and will not make any complaint at all. That is what I determine to do.

LINE SIX

The DAYI (A great doctor) should be calm in manner, peaceful in spirit, strict in self-regulation, solemn in appearance, magnanimous in the breadth of mind, and neither supercilious nor obsequious in manner.

when collecting pathological information and diagnosing disease, the doctor should pay great attention to distinguishing syndromes without any errors and deciding treatment with great accuracy.

It is true that a disease must be treated as immediately as possible. But any treatment should be conducted carefully and prudently.

However, in actual practice, the doctor has to keep calm in an emergency and takes all factors into consideration before making a diagnosis and performing the treatment. In dealing with the life of the patients, the doctor should not make a display of himself and seek a reputation for his own interest since this kind of fish for fame behavior is absolutely immoral.

When visiting the patient’s home of luxury decorations, the doctor should not be distracted by them and cast glances left and right. When the musical sound played around, he will not entertain and echoed; when delicious food is served, he will find it tasteless; and even when mellow wine is offered, he will decline and view it as nothing in the eye.

Because one person’s suffering will make the whole family feel sad, let alone the suffering of a patient last a long time. In this circumstance, if the doctor indulges himself in entertainment and fancies himself, he will be condemned and cursed by both human beings and the immortals. The great doctors with valuable medical virtues never behave like that since this is where medical ethics lie in.

LINE SEVEN

In addition, being The DAYI (a good doctor), one should never talk extravagantly, laugh uproariously, gossip at length, slander on other peers, show off oneself, dispraise colleagues but boast himself.

Once cured of a hard-to-cure patient, a doctor is easy feels proud of himself and tends to show their self-important arrogance and wrongly thought there is no counterpart in the world to be a rival. All these situations mentioned above are the most serious and misleading inclinations that doctors tend to develop if they do not have strict self-regulation.

The funder of Taoism, Lao-tzu ever pointed out: “If a person behaves good or bad in the world, he will be a reward or punished by the people around him. Even he enters the other world this retribution for sin will be command by a ghost according to his precious performance. Who can escape from the divine trial? ”

LINE EIGHT

Therefore doctors should never try to use their skills to make a profit for themselves, but always show great sympathy toward their patients. They will be subject to the last judgment and get the reward and being blessed according to their did.

Furthermore, doctors should never prescribe rich patients with precious drugs not easy to collect in order to show off their own unique talent. This behavior is against the principle of commitment to their duty and consideration for others.

I decided to devote myself to saving the lives of the people and put forward the above suggestions to remind myself and my peers. I make sure anyone who shares the same ideal of being a great doctor will show their respect to my reviews seriously without any ridicule.