Miraculous Folk Medicine? Zhuang medicine?

The Zhuang, as a relatively populous indigenous people in the southern border of the motherland, were among the first in our China to plant rice and cultivate cotton. And Zhuang is also corresponding to the material production activities. With the development of society, Zhuang medicine is also gradually formed and developed. So, do you know about the Zhuang sacred doctors?

Next, let us together from the perspective of national culture to take a look at the mighty national miracle doctor "Zhuang doctor" it!

The Zhuang people, in the course of their production activities, have been able to identify and manufacture simple medical tools from the collection of food. With the development of socio-economic, political and cultural development in the Zhuang region, the Zhuang medicine gradually formed its own characteristics and development.

The formation and development of Zhuang medicine

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Su Wen) - The Theory of Different Methods and Formulas (异法方宜论) says, "The South, the longest nurturing of heaven and earth, the place where the Yang is abundant, and the place where fog and dew are gathered. Its people acidophilic and food service, so they are all to reason and red, its disease contracture paralysis, the treatment should be micro-needle. Therefore, nine needles, also from the south". This is a direct record of the source of the classic works of Chinese medicine on acupuncture therapy. Admittedly, the "south" here does not necessarily refer to the Zhuang region, but should include the Zhuang region. Examination of the existing Zhuang medicine pottery needle shows that its needle type is most similar to the first of the nine needles in the "Neijing", and the two are most similar to the stone. "Nine needles" is a metal medical tool, according to the law of human historical development, in the Stone Age and the Copper Age, there was a period of brilliant pottery culture, pottery needles when the pottery era products.

The Zhuang ancestors first created the use of acupuncture therapy

October 1985, archaeologists in Guangxi Wuming County, Matou Township, the end of the Western Zhou Dynasty in the ancient tomb unearthed two bronze shallow needles. After the examination is considered to be two shallow stabbing with medical needles. Its edge is fine, and the ancients on the "micro-needle" description is consistent. Guangxi "micro-needle" is so far the only reported in the scope of our country, the earliest age of the "micro-needle". It provides a reliable physical basis for the study of the history of Zhuang medicine. Facts show that: the Zhuang ancestors are one of the first to create the use of acupuncture therapy.

China's medical history of the first real drawing of the human anatomy

The Northern Song Dynasty, during the Qingli period, in the Zhuang settlement of Guangxi Yizhou, there was a Zhuang peasant uprising. Rulers to trap the method, captured the district Xifan, Meng Gan and other leaders of the army 56 all killed and ordered Yizhou magistrate Wu Jian and some doctors on the corpse anatomy, painted "district Xifan five viscera map". This is the first recorded medical history of China's first actual drawing of the human anatomy. In the process of dissection, also from the medical point of view of some observations: such as "Meng Gan more sick couch lungs and gallbladder are black; area full of less eye disease, liver has white spots" and so on. This anatomical event has a certain status in China's medical history. It occurred in the Zhuang region.

It is reported that the Zhuang medicine and traditional Chinese medicine is similar, the difference lies mainly in the regional and ethnicity, herbs are taken from the local mountains, treatment methods to the Zhuang eye diagnosis, medicinal line point moxibustion, drugs, such as bamboo cans cupping, etc., there is almost no written records, relying on the oral transmission of the heart. Zhuang medicine in Southeast Asia has broad prospects for development. Especially in the annual Dragon Boat Festival medicine market, a large number of Vietnamese border people come to seek medical advice, trading herbs, learning Chinese medicine ...... Dragon Boat Festival medicine market will be an important platform to promote the Zhuang ethnic culture, open the foreign market of Chinese herbal medicine.