Wednesday, 21 November 2007

The Chinese Physician Deities (Series 3) – Sun Si Miao (醫神系列之孫思邈)





Sun Si Miao (孫思邈) aka Tai Bai Chu Shi (太白處士), born in Sui Dynasty (生于隋朝), Emperor Wen Di Period (AD581 隋文帝年間), hometown at Shan Xi Province, Yao Area (家鄉於陝西省耀縣).

Due to having a weak physical health, Sun Si Miao had been doing self study on medication since young age. After growing up, with well-versed of medication knowledge, Sun Si Miao made vows to cure people who suffered from all sorts of illnesses and sicknesses, from then, he started his physician task.

During Tang Dynasty (唐朝年間), Tang Emperor (唐皇) invited Sun Si Miao to be an Officer in the Imperial Court to serve the Nation, but due to his passion in saving the sufferings, Sun Si Miao rejected the offer.

After rejecting the offer, Sun Si Miao started his traveling around in China, visiting different Mountains to observe and study on natural herbs and plants, from there, he got a lot of new knowledge and this led him to start writing book on medication & herbs.

During the visiting, he also got a piece of secret & important information – the formula of making Ancient Chinese Bombs (硫黃伏火法), etc. After getting the formula, he did more researches on the ancient formula, from there, he created another set of theory out from the ancient formula on the procedure of making of Bombs, etc.

Besides that, Sun Si Miao was also the one who did serious study into Flu and Cold diseases (傷寒之疾), after several trials and experiments, he discovered a lot of important and useful remedies, by doing records, he provided a lot of important information for the new generations.

After 80 over years of providing physician consultation for the sicks, Sun Si Miao passed away in AD682, with an age of 101 (享年101歲).

After his departure and accumulation of merits, credits and contributions in Chinese Physician Skills, Sun Si Miao was being respected as a Deity of Chinese Physician (醫神).

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4 comments:

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