Idioms about Chinese medicine

Idioms about Chinese medicine

Not according to the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine, but according to the principle of matching the monarch and the minister. The monarch is the main medicine and the minister is the auxiliary medicine. If you don't obey the monarch and ministers, you will violate pharmacology and use drugs indiscriminately. Use the argot of poison.

Source: Outlaws of the Marsh11Back: "Jie Bao took out the medicine head that didn't follow the monarch and his subjects, opened his eyes and put it in a hip flask."

Dog skin plaster Chinese medicine uses dog skin plaster to relieve swelling and pain. Metaphor is deceiving.

Source: Liu Fu's Preface to Semi-agricultural Papers: "Go on, that's nonsense. It is better to sell dog skin plasters at the temple fair! "

Seven losses and eight gains refer to a woman's month. Now men's essence is suitable for filling. Traditional Chinese medicine describes the process of human growth and development. Women take seven as the discipline and men take eight as the discipline, so seven refers to women and eight refers to men.

Shengqiao Chinese medicine is another name for the four methods of looking, smelling, asking and cutting.

Source: Difficult classics, divine work: "Looking at knowledge is called' God', hearing knowledge is called' Holy', asking knowledge is called' Work', and feeling the pulse is called' Clever'."

Exogenous internal injuries ① Traditional Chinese medicine refers to exogenous pathogenic wind and internal stagnation. (2) metaphor internal and external frying forced.

Take a look, smell and ask about TCM terms. Look, refer to it; To smell is to listen quietly; Ask; Refers to asking about symptoms; Cut; Feel the pulse. Together, it is called four consultations.

Disease-free self-baking moxibustion: cauterization refers to the medical method of burning a certain part of the body with mugwort leaves in traditional Chinese medicine. Metaphor is asking for trouble or asking for trouble.

Source: "Zhuangzi Stolen Plant": "Liu Yue:' Is there no objection to the foot?' Confucius said:' Of course, it is autumn's so-called' self-baking is disease-free'. ”"

Fight poison with poison: cure. In Chinese medicine, it refers to the treatment of toxic drugs and other malignant diseases. Metaphor is to use the contradiction of bad things to oppose bad things, or to use the wicked to deal with the wicked.

Source: Ming Dow Zong Yi's "Dropping out of Farming" Volume 29: "The bone is full of rhinoceros, and the snake horn is also poisonous, but it can detoxify and cover it with poison to resist poison."