Magical Li medicine culture

Because of the inconvenience of transportation and communication a long time ago, and the language barrier between various ethnic groups. Therefore, the medical culture of Li nationality was unknown long ago. On the contrary, Chinese medicine of Han nationality is more popular, but the medicine of Li nationality also has its magic.

So, let's take a look at Wenhua Li!

Li medicine Li medicine is a traditional medicine handed down from generation to generation by Li people. It is national, regional and traditional. It is a medicine for preventing and treating diseases accumulated by the Li people in their long-term struggle against diseases, and it is an integral part of the national medicine treasure house. The natural medicine resources in Li nationality area are rich and diverse. There are more than 500 kinds of plant medicines, more than 200 kinds of animal medicines and more than 0/00 kinds of mineral medicines in Wuzhishan area.

Li nationality has a long history of developing and utilizing these herbal resources. According to the herbs recorded in the Annals of Asia, Li people have a comprehensive understanding of the morphology, performance, taste, efficacy, collection, processing and classification of herbs, especially the unique views on snake bite, fracture, traumatic injury, poisoning, rheumatism, stomachache, malaria, rheumatism and furuncle. Most people engaged in Li medicine in Li nationality collect and use their own medicinal materials, and process and prepare their own medicinal materials.

Li nationality is a nation without writing, and this nation has not left any written records about medical skills and medicine. However, if we look up all the investigation data about Li culture, customs and medicine, we will find that Li people's worship of gods and ancestors is recorded. Chicken divination, killing for medical treatment, etc. If someone in the Li family is sick, please ask the wizard to kill chickens, pigs and cows at home to treat the disease. Some people come to the conclusion that the Li nationality is a medical model of worshipping God.

Opening the history of medical development of any nation is from ignorance to cognition; They all experienced the evolution from witch doctor to witch doctor's dialectical rational medicine. At the same time, we can't deny the positive role of "witch" in psychotherapy during the period of ignorance. As for the form of the wizard offering sacrifices to the gods left by the Li nationality today, it is just a custom passed down from folk beliefs. It can be regarded as a form of folk psychotherapy, rather than the national medical model of Li nationality.

Judging from the historical era of medical enlightenment and development of Li nationality, Li nationality should be one of the earliest nationalities to realize the differentiation of witch doctors and enter the development mode of rational medicine, and also one of the earliest nationalities to learn to treat diseases with herbs. This period should be basically in the same period as the enlightenment and development of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the archaeological data of Hainan:

Twenty thousand years ago, Li's ancestors set foot on this island in the late Paleolithic period.

Ten thousand years ago, the transition to the Neolithic age began;

Entering the Neolithic Age 6000 years ago;

Entering the Neolithic Age is marked by the origin of agriculture. That is to say, between 654.38 million years ago and 6000 years ago, the ancestors of the Li nationality completed the course of "tasting herbs" almost at the same time as the Chinese Shennong in the Central Plains, from which they discovered and learned to use herbs and learn to plant crops, thus entering the agricultural civilization.