Commentary: Let ethnic medicine go down the mountain and enter the city.

Recently, Linglong Medical Guide, a legacy of Tujia folk doctors lost for more than 70 years in Xianfeng County, Enshi, Hubei Province, was recovered and published. Although such news did not attract people's attention. But its significance is extraordinary: this book, together with the published Introduction to Tujia Medicine and Pharmacy, ends the oral and oral history of Tujia medicine and pharmacy in western Hubei for thousands of years and is regarded as Tujia medicine. Down the hill into town? And laid the foundation for carrying forward. This can't help but remind people of endangered national medicine.

Ethnic medicine refers to the traditional medicine of ethnic minorities in China, which has obvious nationality and regionality. There are more than 50 ethnic minorities in China, with a population of 1 billion. Most ethnic medicines originate from economically underdeveloped areas such as plateaus and mountainous areas, and their medical knowledge and experience are eclectic. ? There is no idle grass everywhere? Natural medicine is rich in resources, and has the advantages of definite curative effect, unique function, wide source of medicine, convenient medical treatment and low cost. For example, Tibetan medicine treats altitude sickness, Uygur medicine treats vitiligo, Mongolian medicine treats bone injury, Yao medicine treats lupus erythematosus, and Miao medicine treats gynecological and pediatric diseases. So far, western medicine and Chinese medicine have incomparable advantages. Yunnan Baiyao, as we all know, belongs to Yi medicine.

For a long time, ethnic medicine has been mainly used locally. What is worrying is that under the impact of modern medicine, it will happen at any time if it is not inherited and excavated in time. Lost? Even? Disappear? Danger. For example, Linglong Medical Guide was written by Qin, a famous Tujia doctor in the late Qing Dynasty, on the basis of predecessors, combined with his own clinical experience and theoretical summary for more than 50 years, and after more than 10 years of painstaking research. If it is not rescued, ethnic medicine will lose a wonderful flower and the country will lose an important health resource.

In addition to inheritance, there is also the problem of development. In the current environment, the development space of ethnic medicine is shrinking. Are the groups of national medicine and precious national medicine unified? Exam? And then what? Norm? Yes, by? Elimination? Out? The old grass doctor died, the grass doctor left, the grass in the mountains turned yellow, and the hearts of the masses became cold? .

For example, doctors must pass the medical qualification examination. Ethnic medicine only includes Mongolian medicine, Tibetan medicine, Uygur medicine and Dai medicine. And western medicine knowledge must be tested in any category. This is difficult for many ethnic doctors who are born and bred and have clinical experience but have never studied systematically? Threshold? .

Ethnic medicine is a wonderful work of medical culture in China. Imagine: if ethnic medicine can survive and develop well, we will have not only traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine, but also Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Uygur medicine, Dai medicine, Miao medicine, Zhuang medicine and Yi medicine. Combined with acupuncture, massage, cupping, scraping, medicated bath and other non-drug therapies and external treatments, medical care means are rich and colorful, but this medicine is ineffective. Don't use one method, choose ten methods to provide some possibilities for reducing medical costs and improving medical level, which is a blessing for Chinese medical care.