Ji Desheng

Ji Desheng, "'Jidesheng"', or Ji De Sheng (Chinese: 季德胜) is a Chinese herbalist from Nantong, Jiangsu, China, who is famous as a Snakebite treatment expert.

Life Overview

Ji Desheng was born on October 1898 in Suqian County, Jiangsu Province, on the outskirts of a dilapidated temple. His father, Ji Ming Yang, made a living by selling traditional Chinese herbal remedy. Equipped with a unique skill but without land or money, the family lived a life of extreme poverty and hardship. Young Ji Desheng constantly traveled with his parents during his infancy.

When Ji Desheng was 6 years old, his mother passed away. He followed his father from morning to night and hiked hills to collect wild herbs, catch snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other insects to prepare for snakebite medicine. When Ji Desheng turned 18 years old, Suqian Country was hit by a drought so severe that the land cracked and plague was epidemic. Ji Desheng fled the area with his father, relocating in Nanjing and the father-son duo continued to make a living by selling snake medicine. Ji Desheng continued to learn from his father's skills of catching snakes, treating snakebites with the snake medicine they made. Ji Desheng's knowledge of snakebite medicine grew with age and became his father's indispensable assistant.

During the Winter of 1923, Jidesheng relocated with his father to the town Chahe at Rudong County. His father passed away the following year. The 25 years old Jidesheng was determined to follow his father's footstep and continue to produce the snakebite medicine which recipe he inherited. When passed into the hands of Ji Desheng, the snake medicine recipe is in its fifth generation. Ji Desheng had heard his father saying that every generation has made positive development on the recipe. In order to make improvements himself, Ji Desheng tasted dozens of plants and animals include the drug "chaos side", such as lobelia, yellow openings detoxification herbs are commonly used in Chinese medicine pain drugs. There is no fixed dose amount when tasting the medicine. Jidesheng thought, since the ancestors of the recipe wins a generation generation generation to generation to develop, to my hands, can not develop it? Independent Kenshin in his first three years, they determined to simplify the recipe into a easy to take effect more secret. His first original prescription drug, blind identification of taste, tasted all kinds of drugs. Talked about his childhood, his father heard the story of Shen Nong tasted a hundred herbs. Yi Yao secret Some drugs are toxic, taste the medicine in the process, he repeatedly poisoning. Each poisoning, immediately taking on his father taught antidotes. With his intuitive and original-style taste of this medicine way to keep crude refined, good tick by herbicides, repeated screening to determine the effectiveness of the performance of each herbal medicine to unilateral, iterative compound trial in his body, so that snake bites their shoulders, arms, toes and other parts, then the secret of their preparation topical oral administration, a time to identify the efficacy of their preparation snake medicine. In ensuring the safe and effective drugs on the human situation, and then applied to snakebite patients. Spent nearly 10 years of hard work, finally achieved his long-cherished wish. The secret in a variety of drugs into powder, add liquid to reconcile, 2.5 cm in diameter with a hand-made​​, 0.5 cm thick black drug cake, shaped like a parasol and a son of pills, each drug cake and pills are printed in red "season" word mark, showed the "Jidesheng snake medicine" sign, continue mountebank, selling snake medicine.

The spring of 1942, Ji Desheng moved to Suzhou, a lot of snakebite patients were treated by him, no hands but not more. One day in autumn the same year, a Japanese businessman attempted to befriend Ji Desheng by sending money, gifts, praise Jidesheng his mentor, to worship Jidesheng as a teacher. Although he is a thick Jidesheng guy, but he knows Japanese businessmen want to cheat his snake medicine recipe. With the "mountain herbs to grass outside, another day go into the details" to meet the night to escape the city of Suzhou. Jidesheng time though impoverished, the money has not been moved by its national integrity and patriotism, so that people praise.

1948 Ji Desheng moved to Nantong. In 1949, Nantong liberation. Jidesheng continue a street vendor, snake charmers and sell drugs. At this point he has great attainments Snakebite research, combined with Yi Yao special effects, quite well known locally. Any snakebite patients, if only he saw, the patient is able to identify what snake bites, from the wounds left teeth marks and depth, but also to identify the male snake, the female snake, the snake out of its hole, into the snake holes, fasting snakes, snakes and even the pregnant belly snakes eat. He said: "Snake venom out of its hole and more potency; hole snake venom has been secreted, some drugs on the light; Jingzhe poisonous snakebite when a large, poisonous snake bites light after the winter solstice; poisonous snake bite pregnant more just the mother snake venom produced light. "These unique insight, wonderful, amazing. He is based on the toxicity of snake gnawing wound size, respectively, drug treatment, so get unexpected results.

Research

Viper snake is the largest number of Chinese, the most widely distributed, by its patients wound up gnawing a snake. Jidesheng made ​​on the viper's high level of general patterns of life, he said: "... after viper is Jingzhe activities, from summer solstice to the autumnal equinox is the activity of the most productive season; on day among morning and evening low for insects flying height when climbing tour, viper out of its hole and more at this time foraging; abrupt climate change, thunderstorms will be the occasion, but also the activities of viper out of its hole moment. "Viper snake Jidesheng on the patterns of life and how to identify poisonous snakes also make such a description: "snake bite could have been non-selective, but because of people's living environment and activities, seasonal and snake patterns of life is different the incidence of snakebite, there are some differences. snake in the spring and autumn activities, from July to September, more active. dark, damp at the snake's activity area, on the caves, bushes, tree holes, shrubs, flood, the field is nowhere to hide. most snake flat triangular head, neck and smaller, bright skin color, tail short and thick, and the animal was bitten in the visible parts of two fangs are Indented, and the rapid emergence of edema, toxic soon spread, and to life-threatening. "

Jidesheng of snakes like the plot of decades of experience, he went to a strange place, or any old house, look around us, we can quickly determine where there are no snakes or snakes, but also to tell people there are few clear snake is not poisonous snakes or snakes, serpent or snake. This is because with his own special sense of smell, sharp vision, inspiration plus experience. If they do not believe he can "call the snake" out of its hole. He painted frog juice out into a snake hole in the hand, blowing whistles while the male snake was evocative hole. The issue of a slightly slightly ... ... the voice of the female snake will swim hole, curled up body, let him catch any, tinkering. Snake snake get caught, in general, is very dangerous and difficult. Serpent is not only quick action, and very fierce, snake man alive if it can not be stuck fast, and it will capture people in the coiled body, the other strangled. And bile to be very fast, must be immediately before caesarean section to remove the snake dying, or they instantly digest. The Jidesheng snake bile, but as Tannangquwu.

Snake Medicine Recipe

In 1955, Nantong City Health Bureau to implement the policy of Chinese medicine, folk songs visit Xian, the scattered folk recipe, unilateral, prescription for a careful excavation. For the treatment of snakebite Jidesheng medical techniques and secrets of the magical effect of snake medicine, they attached great importance. Municipal Health Bureau and has three times to visit Jidesheng. In order to check the exact effect of snake snake medicine physicians, who have about a dozen follow-up treatment after Jidesheng snake had been gnawing hurt patients, case patients were cured. Jidesheng treatment of snake bites in Jidesheng Health Bureau and the home visit, and once happened to Lee County, Nantong port town have been snake bitten patients, swollen from the toes to the knee, sat wheelbarrow to seek treatment. After internal medicine cake, topical powder, water, poison needles, quickly eliminate the swelling, the evening will be able to find their own path home.

Jidesheng of visitors, said: "My secret is the result of their trial, absolutely reliable"! Then bring a cage readily from the strong toxicity of the viper, viper bite his left hand let Neiguan, while seeing the bloody side swelling up, then he made ​​a drug cake in your mouth wet, around the tumor draw a black circle, and she quickly control the spread of tumor. Then letting viper bite his tongue, viper bite and hold, trying to shift the outer lips, tongue pulled out a few centimeters, I saw him a plug to the mouth of the snake, fierce bite, the snake off, then spit it out, since oral pharmaceutical cake immediately, safely without incident.

Nantong Municipal Health Bureau in 1956 absorbed into the Nantong Jidesheng Hospital, opened venom specialist out-patient. This is Jidesheng a major turning point on the road of life, ending his wandering rivers and lakes and destitute of the first half. Former "snake Hanako", Seoul National Hospital today to become a specialist snake venom. Jidesheng suffered oppression in the old society, threats, inducements, extreme hardship. As the lifeblood of his secret, although it into the hospital, to become a doctor, but fear, fear that once gave prescription, he kicked open, breaking the lifeblood of losing their jobs. Jidesheng the leaders understand this mentality, so taking care of his life at the same time, the patience, inspiration, and emotionally moving, convincing people with reason, without reservation Jidesheng finally dedicated a national secret. Jidesheng snake snake medicine tablets Jidesheng secret, although there are surprisingly effective, but only by the composition of effective experience, not to rise to the theory. The efficacy of the secret he only knew enough, I do not know why. The pharmacological mechanism, it is not too clear. Moreover, there is not perfect in this secret place. If the original square to be done now is to use, place a long time, easy rotten degenerate; recipe in a variety of dosage, with only a rule of thumb grasping the letter, the dose with the arbitrariness, the lack of scientific data. The original dose is large black particles and black pill drug cake, taking a long time after the teeth were black, and there is a greater smell. For these situations, the hospital set up a Snakebite Study Group. Jidesheng and study groups with members of the research on the original side, adjust, amend, eliminate the above drawbacks. Respect the views of Jidesheng, Yi Yao named "Jidesheng snake tablets."

In 1958, its secret Jidesheng serpent gnawing hurt tablet treatment of 100 patients, with no deaths, attracted the attention of foreign pharmaceutical industry. This medicine experts organized by the Ministry of Health, as a major scientific and technological achievements, the National Science and Technology Commission has published results of this Bulletin, and published a "study Jidesheng snake medicine." In August, Jidesheng invited to Beijing to attend the national competition to by the Party and state leaders met. Chinese Academy of Sciences appointed as Research Fellow Jidesheng, Ministry of Health awarded him the "vanguard of medical and health technology revolution," the title of honor. Jidesheng in his 70-year-old this year, the treatment of 123 injuries were gnawing serpent, for example, cases were successful, and no case of left disabled. Nantong Hospital venom specialist from 1956 to 1972 application Jidesheng snake medicine treatment of snakebite patients with more than 600 cases, the cure rate up to 99.57%. Since 1973, Jiangsu Province in Snakebite Study Group on the basis of prescription Jidesheng further screening, simplified treatment of snakebites 1700 cases, the cure rate of 99.32%.

Ethics

Jidesheng treatment of snakebites, not only skilled, and noble ethics touching. Critically ill patients, he used his mouth to suck the wound, sucking out the venom spit foul immediately, repeatedly, and then to patients on drug therapy.

August 28, 1960 the Ministry of Health Power, please go to Wuhan Jidesheng rescue unit of a PLA officer. 63-year-old was suffering from pleurisy Jidesheng hospitalization. Received a rescue mission, regardless of their illness, leave immediately. After nine hours the water, land, air flight, at 11:30 that night arrived at the Air Force hospital in Wuhan, regardless of exhaustion immediately see the patient journey. Check back with left foot wound by two, limb swelling, genital swelling, semi-conscious state, at stake. He judged according to the wound, the officer was bitten by a viper out of its hole, began to snake venom hearts and minds, there is no guarantee another few hours of life. He act decisively to give acupuncture points detoxification eight winds, while from the ankle to the knee topical snake medicine, oral snake tablets by high-dose dosing, half an hour after waking from a coma patient, the first three days swelling subsided, and can lower bed slowly. After 8 days of treatment and care, saving the officer's life. Critically ill patients like this, after he personally cured, countless. Jidesheng in snake venom specialist out-patient period, people often go abroad for the treatment of snakebites, and the deep mountain forest, climbing to catch snakes, gather information, collect herbs. Venom in his later years of painstaking research to treat cataracts and cancer.

Later Life

Unfortunately on October 18, 1981, Ji Desheng passed away abruptly from brain haemorrhage.

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