The Development of Yi Medicine

Yi area, especially Liangshan area, has a long history of producing precious medicinal materials. For example, as recorded in 1942 Xichang County Records, the annual output of medicinal materials near Xichang alone is tens of thousands of kilograms. These medicinal materials are sold in large quantities in Sichuan and Yunnan provinces. Example: Fangfeng, 20,000 A Jin years, shipped to Yunnan; Fritillaria, weighing more than 4,000 kilograms a year, is sold in Yunnan; Qin Gui, weighing 3000 kilograms a year, is sold to Sichuan and Yunnan. Grifola umbellata 3 kg a year; Dendrobium, 5 kg per year; Take 3 kilograms a year; Adenophora adenophora 5 kg, etc.

Liangshan Luoji Mountain is also extremely rich in medicinal materials. At that time, people called Gaishan "a lot of medicinal materials, especially rhubarb." "Phyllanthus emblica, the antidote to sulfur, can be seen everywhere in the western hills of Quanzhou."

Liangshan area is rich in plant medicines and many precious animal medicines. Ren Yingcang's "Introduction to the Development of Big and Small Liangshan Mountains" records: "Deer are produced in all parts of Xiaoliangshan Mountain in Mahle Pinge. Near Zhong Ping in Leibo, some people are famous for their wild deer. ..... Musk was produced in Xiaoliangshan. I heard that it was produced quite a lot when the foreign invasion subsided in the Qing Dynasty. Bear bile and velvet antler are the same, with a lot of output. ..... In addition, there are dozens of poisonous snakes, and smelling their venom is also a good medicine. "

The ancestors of the Yi nationality invented the salt-making technology long ago, and the application of salt had a great influence on the life and medicine of the Yi nationality. They washed the wound with salt water and then fed it to the livestock.