The motherland has a long history and splendid culture, Chinese medicine.

Chinese medicine, that is, medicine in China, is relative to western medicine. Before western medicine was introduced into China, there was no such term as "Chinese medicine". Previously, "Chinese medicine" had many names: Huang Qi, Qingnang, Xinglin, Hanging Pot, Orange Well and so on. Each name is related to an interesting story. For example, the first name "Huang Qi" of "Traditional Chinese Medicine" comes from Huangdi Neijing. Huangdi Neijing is a book about medicine between Huangdi and Qibo, who is called "Shi Tian". Later generations called the drugs in Huangdi Neijing "Huang Qi Shu". Huangdi Neijing is a classic of China's early medicine, so Huang Qi has become synonymous with Chinese medicine. Another example is the little-known Orange Well, which tells the story of Su Dan, a Taoist priest in the Western Han Dynasty. Sudan is very filial to its mother. Before becoming an immortal, she told her mother that there would be a plague epidemic and drinking orange leaves from the well could prevent it. When the epidemic broke out the next year, his mother treated countless patients in this way. In order to commemorate his achievements, later generations praised Chinese medicine with "Orange Essence Spring".

The word "Chinese medicine" was first seen in "History of Han, Art and Literature" written by Ban Gu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and there was a saying that "when you are sick, you always have to go to Chinese medicine". It means that if you are sick and don't treat it, you often heal yourself, because it is in line with medical principles. This is not to let us die, but to emphasize the importance of human self-regulation to health. The human body often achieves the balance of yin and yang through self-regulation, so the pain often heals itself without medicine. This is the secret of traditional Chinese medicine: by adjusting various mechanisms of the human body, we can achieve balance and achieve the purpose of treating diseases and saving lives. The "traditional Chinese medicine" we talked about only appeared before and after the Opium War. At that time, in order to distinguish between Chinese and western medicine, the western doctors of the British East India Company named China medicine as "Chinese medicine". 1936, the Kuomintang government formulated the Regulations on Traditional Chinese Medicine, which officially named China medicine as "traditional Chinese medicine" in legal form, and people also called it "China medicine", "traditional medicine" and "ethnic medicine".