Chapter 4386 4388 [The Art of Immortality]

Cui Wenzi lived in the villa in Zhongnan Mountain for half a year, mainly to exchange medical experience with Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan then learned that Cui Wenzi was actually the descendant of Qin He. Qin He was a famous doctor in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was once as famous as Bian Que and Yi Huan.

Qin He once treated the Jin Hou who was obsessed with beauty, but after diagnosis and treatment, he found that it was useless. Jin Hou asked him the reason, and he said, "Lust causes six diseases, and excessive lust will cause disasters. Yin lust causes cold diseases, Yang lust causes hot diseases, wind lust causes no diseases, rain lust causes abdominal diseases, dark lust causes confusion diseases, and bright lust causes heart diseases." Sure enough, Jin Hou died soon.

Yi Huan also treated Jin Jinggong, but he was also unable to cure it. Jin Jinggong asked the reason, and he said, "The disease is above the vertebra and below the fat. It cannot be attacked, it cannot be reached, and the medicine cannot reach it, so it cannot be done."

That's why there is the idiom " terminally ill", which describes a person's condition to the point where it cannot be cured, or the deterioration of things has reached an irreversible point.

Cui Wenzi studied under Qin He and learned good medical skills from him. From then on, he traveled around the world, curing diseases and saving lives, and helping the poor. His biggest dream was to make an elixir of immortality.

Because in ancient times, witches and doctors were inseparable, and in the Qin and Han dynasties, witches and doctors were still mixed.

For example, the "Shennong Bencao Jing" written in the Eastern Han Dynasty also recorded a large number of absurd sentences, such as "health preservation", "longevity", "light body", and "immortality".

Therefore, Cui Wenzi is not only a divine doctor, but also a wizard, or a "alchemist". His dream is to refine an elixir of immortality so that there will be no more illness and pain in the world from now on.

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Xiang Nan exchanged medical experience with Cui Wenzi and learned from Cui Wenzi how to refine an elixir of immortality.

Alchemists believe that all things in the world have spirituality, and humans are also the spirits of all things, but they are rolling in the mundane world and are infected by vulgarity, so they slowly lose their spirituality. Just like an oil lamp, it will go out as long as the oil is exhausted.

So they collect spiritual treasures, such as bezoar, dog treasure, night pearl, blood of spiritual beasts, etc., extract the spirituality from them, take the essence and remove the dross.

After people take it, they can naturally prolong their life. Just like adding oil to an oil lamp, as long as more oil is added than burned, people can naturally live forever.

This is just the theory, but he has tried it many times and it has no effect. At most, it can make people healthier and live longer, but they still cannot avoid death.

After hearing about his "adding oil" theory, Xiang Nan admired his wonderful ideas.

To be honest, it is not surprising that he thinks so.

Because European wizards also think so, and they have indeed used people to refine the magic stone that can prolong life.

And modern medical research has also shown that in order to maintain good health, people do need to absorb sugar, fat, protein, vitamins, amino acids and trace elements from the outside world.

Balanced nutrition can indeed help people prolong their lives. Moreover, a bad living environment does reduce a person's lifespan. For example, sewage, exhaust gas, haze, etc.

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And Cui Wenzi learned even more from Xiang Nan.

Xiang Nan is well-versed in both ancient and modern times, and is proficient in Chinese medicine, Western medicine, witch doctors, internal medicine, surgery, poisons... all of which are proficient and knowledgeable.

His research on pathology alone far exceeds Cui Wenzi's knowledge.

For example, although Cui Wenzi knew that typhoid plague was transmitted through human excrement, he did not know the principle. With the help of Xiang Nan, he saw those extremely tiny typhoid bacilli, and then suddenly realized it.

"So that's it, these are the so-called 'external evil'." After seeing those germs with the help of a microscope, Cui Wenzi couldn't help but exclaimed, "The ancients really didn't deceive me."

Chinese medicine believes that people's illnesses are divided into two factors: "internal evil" and "external evil".

Internal evil refers to a person's own problems, such as anger hurts the liver, joy hurts the heart, worry hurts the lungs, fear hurts the kidneys, eating too much fat and greasy food can easily produce phlegm and dampness; eating too much or too little can easily hurt the spleen and stomach; looking for a long time hurts the blood, lying for a long time hurts the qi, sitting for a long time hurts the flesh, standing for a long time hurts the bones, and walking for a long time hurts the tendons...

External evil refers to adverse factors from the outside world, such as wind, cold, heat, dampness, dryness, fire, and epidemic qi.

For example, if you stay in a damp and cold environment for a long time, you are prone to rheumatism; if you stay in a cold environment for a long time, you are prone to colds; if you are often in a dry and hot environment, you will have dry mouth and dry eyes; if you are in an epidemic environment, you are also easily infected...

When internal and external evils combine, people will get sick, so Chinese medicine emphasizes "strengthening the foundation and nourishing the essence" and "supporting the body and eliminating evils". It is believed that if the body is full of vitality and positive energy, it can overcome internal and external evils, maintain good health, and achieve longevity.

Cui Wenzi believes in these theories, but has never seen them with his own eyes.

Now that he saw these germs, he realized that there are indeed "external evils" in the world. These external evils invade people's bodies and cause people to suffer from plague.

And these external evils are everywhere, in water, soil, food, and even in the air. People live in this dirty and evil world, no wonder their lifespans are so short.

"Daoyou, your medical skills are really amazing." Cui Wenzi admired him very much, "I have learned so much from you, I think I can save more people."

He learned a lot of medical skills from Xiang Nan that he had never known before, which really benefited him a lot, but he had to choose to leave the Zhongnan Mountain Villa.

"Daoyou, isn't it a happy thing for you and me to exchange medical skills on the mountain?" Seeing this, Xiang Nan asked puzzledly, "Why do we have to rush down the mountain?"

He still has a lot of medical knowledge to exchange with Cui Wenzi.

"My life is limited, but my knowledge is limitless. If I follow the limitless with the limited, I will be in danger." Cui Wenzi waved his hand and smiled, "The way of medical skills is endless. It is not easy to learn it all.

Let alone learning for a lifetime, I am afraid that I can't learn it all in ten lifetimes. But the people in the world can't wait for me for ten lifetimes, so I have to go. Knowledge should be learned, but the most important thing is to be able to apply what you have learned and integrate knowledge and practice."

"I see." Xiang Nan nodded and smiled, "Okay, in this case, I won't keep you."

As Cui Wenzi said, the way of medical skills is indeed endless. Internal medicine, surgery, traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, witch doctor, poison doctor... Each of them is all-encompassing and not easy to learn. It may not be possible to learn them all in a lifetime.

The doctor Xue, the enemy of the king of hell in "The Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils", has high medical skills, but compared with his master Su Xinghe, he has only learned a little bit of the fur.

Compared with Wuyazi, Su Xinghe has only learned a little bit of the fur. Wuyazi's medical books were also far behind those stored in Lingjiu Palace.

Xiang Nan's knowledge had far surpassed that of the founder of Xiaoyao Sect, so Cui Wenzi might not be able to learn all the medical skills from him even if he studied with him for his whole life.

He also realized this, so he stopped studying and decided to go down the mountain to apply what he had learned. After all, no matter how high the medical skills were, it would be useless to the people living down the mountain if they just studied in the mountains.

Xiang Nan understood his mentality, so he did not try to keep him. Fortunately, he had already learned Cui Wenzi's method of refining the elixir of immortality, which was also the most valuable knowledge.