Xiao Longyou is one of the "Four Famous Doctors in Beijing". 1870, from Ya 'an, Sichuan. When he was young, his mother was often ill, which made him have an indissoluble bond with Chinese medicine. But he really began to understand Chinese medicine after he was admitted to Chengdu Zunjing Academy. During his study, he read a lot of medical books and got a deeper understanding of Chinese medicine. Sichuan is located in the earthquake zone, which is prone to earthquakes and post-earthquake plagues. When Xiao Longyou was 22 years old, cholera broke out in central Sichuan, killing countless people. Xiao Longyou and Chen Yunsheng, an old Chinese doctor, used Chinese herbal medicine to treat patients along the street. Cholera is not difficult to treat. It soon cured many patients, which made Xiao Longyou famous for some time. However, he did not give up his studies and went back to the academy. He devoted most of his energy to his studies and used his spare time to practice medicine and treat diseases.
During the period of 1897, Xiao Longyou went to Beijing to take the exam and successfully entered the officialdom with excellent results. As a newcomer in officialdom, he still insists on treating people, and because he is in officialdom, he has more convenient resources to facilitate Xiao Longyou to specialize in medical skills. During this period, he studied China's classical medical skills, browsed a large number of western medicine works, and successfully obtained the qualification as a doctor. However, due to various bureaucratic trivia, when the government of the Republic of China moved to the south, Xiao Longyou resigned and stayed in Beiping to open a righteous light. Xiao Longyou's reputation was known to most people as early as when he was treating cholera in Sichuan.
19 16 years, Xiao Longyou didn't open YiGuang, but Yuan Shikai's eldest son Yuan asked him to treat his father. Xiao Longyou said that after Yuan Shikai was diagnosed with uremia, he prescribed a prescription for Yuan to take medicine and told Yuan Shikai to rest. But Yuan Shikai's second son didn't believe in Chinese medicine and insisted on western medicine. At that time, because the whole country was opposed to Yuan Shikai's restoration of monarchy, Yuan Shikai was restless and died soon.
Later, Sun Yat-sen also visited Xiao Longyou in Beiping 1924. Xiao Longyou said that Sun Yat-sen's liver was ill and could not be cured, so he didn't give Sun Yat-sen a prescription ... After Sun Yat-sen's death, German doctors dissected his body and found that Sun Yat-sen's liver did have a lump, which made Xiao Longyou famous.
Liang Qichao also visited Xiao Longyou in 1926. Liang Qichao had a problem with bloody stool, so he asked Western medicine and Xiao Longyou for consultation respectively. Western medicine said that he had black spots on his kidney and suggested removing them. Xiao Longyou believed that Liang Qichao had diabetes and uremia, and suggested taking Chinese medicine to recuperate. Because Liang Qichao believed in western medicine, he went to the hospital for surgery. After cutting off the kidney, he found that there were no black spots in the kidney, which shocked everyone. When Xiao Longyou heard this, he felt helpless and sad. Later, Xiao Longyou became more widely known. Even the German doctor of medicine in Beijing Hospital was amazed at his medical skills and often consulted him.
In his later years, Xiao Longyou was elected as an academician of China Academy of Sciences, and founded the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chengdu and Beijing, and continued to make contributions to the medical cause. I hope more Chinese medicine practitioners, like the old gentleman, will strive to revitalize the Chinese medicine industry, let more people see the charm of Chinese medicine, take off the hat of "Chinese medicine = witchcraft", spread it all over the world, and benefit all mankind.