Historical review of sticking therapy

As early as 65,438+0,300 years ago in Oracle Bone Inscriptions, there were a lot of written descriptions of predecessors' experience on external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhou Li Tianguan records the commonly used external application methods and drug corrosion methods for treating sores and ulcers, such as "choose to treat palm swelling and pain, ulceration, ulceration, and golden ulcer, and wish the medicine to scrape and kill ...", among which "wishing medicine" is dressing. In the earliest existing clinical medical literature "Fifty-two Diseases Prescription" in China, the external application of sores includes the creation of modern plasters for the first time in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. Although there is no complete system and monograph of applied therapy, its therapeutic idea has been formed. Ge Hong's Elbow Backup Emergency Prescription in Jin Dynasty recorded for the first time that Radix Rehmanniae or Fructus Toosendan were mashed and applied externally to treat injuries. Apply ointment to treat golden sores, and collect a large number of external plasters, such as Dipsaci ointment, Danshen ointment, Realgar ointment, Wudushen ointment and so on. , and indicate the specific preparation and use method. Its method of treating rabies by external application of rabies brain injury is a pioneer of immunology. With the continuous improvement and innovation of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, since the Jin and Tang dynasties, there has been an applied research on the mutual penetration and combination of sticking therapy and other disciplines. For example, the application method is combined with the special functions of meridians and acupoints, and the acupoint application method is established, which greatly improves the curative effect. Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica records many acupoint application therapies, which are widely known and widely used.

Qing dynasty can be said to be the mature stage of external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. Among them, the emergence of monographs on external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, such as First Aid of Guangsheng Ji and Li Long Parallel Essays, is representative, and a relatively complete theoretical system is a sign that plaster therapy is maturing. The Collection of Guangsheng First Aid was published in 1805, which is the first monograph on external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine in China. This book has been carefully collected by the Cheng family for decades, referring to more than 400 kinds of medical books, collecting the achievements of foreign treatment methods in previous dynasties, and selecting more than a thousand kinds of foreign treatment methods before Jiaqing. Volume *** 10 recorded 239 kinds of diseases, more than 400 kinds, 1500 pieces. This book records in detail the methods of applying therapy to treat various diseases, and emphasizes "improper diet" and "abstinence from prostitution" during the treatment process, and at the end of volume 3, there are medicinal materials introduction, medication instructions and instructions. It is still used in clinic today. Fifty-nine years after the publication of First Aid Guangsheng Ji, Wu Shangxian, a "school of foreign treatment", has systematically sorted out and theoretically explored foreign treatment for decades, and wrote the world-famous Parallel Prose of Li Zhuo. Among them, the scope of application therapy is expanded to internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, skin, facial features and other disciplines, and the conclusion that external treatment can "cure all diseases" is put forward, which opens up a method for the application of external application of traditional Chinese medicine in later generations.