Taoist Medicine Exhibition Hall at Wudang Museum

Taoist medicine and health science is an important school of traditional Chinese medicine. Taoism has always attached great importance to the study of medicine and prescriptions for the purpose of practicing medicine and saving the world, thus forming a tradition of respect for medicine.

In China's four great inventions, gunpowder is Taoist priests in the alchemy of medicine to understand the pharmacology of invention. As Wudang Mountain is a natural plant medicine library, thus the medical Taoist mostly picks, makes and uses its own herbs, and has a wealth of practical experience in the form, medicinal properties, pharmacology and compounding of herbs. There are nearly a hundred kinds of herbal medicines such as paste, pill, ingot and dan handed down in the world, which are the wonders of Chinese Taoist medicine culture.

In the third floor of the exhibition hall, the display of specimens of medicinal herbs and pharmaceutical equipment, in particular, the Wudang Mountain Taoist homemade medicine "eight treasures Zijinzhuang", "honey steamed yellow essence" and so on is also on display to the public for the first time.

What to see-wooden nude statues

The exhibition of the Wudang Mountain collection of two male, two female nude statues of different age structure of the wooden carving, its shape is rare. In archaeology, unearthed in the Western Han Dynasty wood carving male nude wooden maids. For these nude wood carvings, professionals believe that may be related to the Taoist medical acupuncture points, massage demonstration simulation.