The history of local herbs

As early as the Eastern Han Dynasty, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing" recorded: medicine has a "land out of the authenticity of the new Chen ......" emphasizes the importance of distinguishing between the origin of the herbs, the importance of Dao Di. In the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" contained in the 365 kinds of medicinal herbs, there are many from the name of the drug can be seen on the color of the road, such as Batou, Baji Tian, Shu Pepper, Shu Lacquer, Shu Jujube (Cornus officinalis), Qin Pepper, Qin Pi, Qin Gua, Wu Cornus officinalis, Agaricus, ochre (Shanxi, Daixian area), the Rong salt, and so on. Ba, Shu, Wu, Qin, Dong'a, and Daizhou are all ancient country names or ancient place names from around the Western Zhou Dynasty. Among the 242 herbs in the Formulas for Fifty-two Diseases, those whose names reflect their origins include Shu Beans and Shu Peas and Shu Peppers.

Among the 66 herbs contained in the Wuwei Medicinal Formulas (25-88 A.D.), there are herbs with origin and daoji, such as gentiana, shu jiao, and dai ochre.

The Nei Jing theoretically clarified the meaning of Daoji herbs, stating, "The age-old materials are the specialized essence of heaven and earth, and if they are not in the division of the age-old materials, the qi will be dispersed, and the qualities are the same, but not the same."

There are 112 prescriptions in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, involving more than 80 kinds of Chinese herbs, among which the documented Taoist herbs Agaricus and Shu Lac are widely used in clinical practice.

The Collected Notes on the Classic of Materia Medica summarized the pharmacological achievements of the previous generation and further discussed the importance of "Dao Di": "All medicines are born in a realm. Most of them are from the near road, and their qi, power and nature are not as good as those of the original state. So the cure is not as good as the past, but also when this is the reason. Shu medicine northern medicine, although there is the future, but also non-elite. Shangdang ginseng, not for sale. Huayin fine Xin, discarded as mustard." Another cloud: "Since Jiangdong, a small miscellaneous drugs, mostly out of the near road, gas for sex, less than the state." The book of more than 40 kinds of commonly used Chinese medicine of the Taoist nature of the use of "first", "best", "the best", "for the best ", "for good", "for victory" and other words to describe it.

During the Tang Dynasty, the concept of Taoist medicinal herbs was further strengthened. Newly Revised Materia Medica (《新修本草》) made an insightful description of Taoist medicinal herbs: "I think it's a good idea to move the plants to be born in shape, to be mistaken for the party, and to feel the different effects of the spring and fall festivals. If they are not localized, the quality is the same but the effect is different." The book adds and revises the advantages and disadvantages of more than 30 kinds of traditional Chinese medicines.

Sun Simiao emphasized the origin of the herbs in his "Thousand Gold Wings", stating that "the use of medicine must be based on the land", which may have laid the foundation for the formal use of the term "daoji medicinal herbs" in later times.

Approximately copied in the Sui and Tang dynasties buried Dunhuang medical volumes, "Zhang Zhongjing five viscera," "I do not know the name of the doctor's prescription" in the record of the name of the traditional Chinese medicine to Dao Di, such as Henan hyssop, Jiangning rhizome, Shangzhou Citrus aurantium, Huashan raspberries, the original state of the Astragalus, Lushu state cuscuta, Lanshu Tribulus terrestris, etc. This is the clinical use of medicines to pay attention to the land," said: "medicine must be based on the land. This is the further development of clinical medication to pay attention to the Taoist herbs, for the Song Materia Medica comprehensive record of origin plus the name of the medicine to mark the quality of the herbs laid the foundation.

The Song Dynasty pharmacists further inherited and developed the experience of the Taoist herbs, and theoretically elaborated. For example, the "evidence class Materia Medica" on the Taoist medicinal herbs records than the Han and Tang periods, especially with the title of the map are crowned with the name of the origin, such as: "Qizhou half-summers", "into the army of the dog's spine", "Yinzhou Chaihu "

There are more than 250 kinds of local herbs recorded.

Kou Zongshi, in his "Diffraction of Materia Medica", suggested: "All medicines must be selected from the state and the soil, so that the medicinal power of the medicine is available, and the use of it is well-founded."

Li Dongyuan summarized in his many years of clinical experience: "All grasses, trees and insects, the production of a place, the loss of its place is less different in nature and taste."

Ming Dynasty, "Dao Di medicinal herbs" special terminology has been formally seen in the materia medica and literature books. The book "Essentials of Materia Medica" contained 916 kinds of medicines, and clearly recorded 268 kinds of Taoist herbs, including 32 kinds of Sichuan medicines, 27 kinds of Guangdong medicines, and 8 kinds of Huaiyao medicines.

"Chen Jiamu in the Materia Medica Meng Tsuen emphasized, "Each has its own appropriate property, smell power from unusual, a side of the land out of a side of the medicine also."

Li Shizhen's point of view of Taoist herbs is more clear, such as: "nature from the ground change, quality and things change, ...... Cangzha can salt, A well can gum, ...... will be traveling medicine potential, the only do not choose the water? " He is not like the "Herbal Compendium of Essentials" as a special item under each herb, but under each herb on the Taoist exposition of a lot, such as maitong under the words "Zhezhong from the very good".

To the Qing Dynasty, medical doctors from the clinic found that one of the reasons for the poor efficacy of drugs is the "road" problem. Xu Dachun has pointed out in the "medicinal properties of the theory of change": "when the beginning of the first use, there must be a place of production, this is the native soil, so the gas is thick and full power. Later moved to plant other places, then the ground gas shift and thin." "...... then taken, were born in the valley, the yuan gas has not been leaked, so the gas is uniquely thick, now all artificial planting, both non-valley of the real gas, and irrigation work, then the nature of the bland and thin inferior to carry on."

Before the founding of the PRC, Chinese medicine was in a position to be eliminated, the Chinese medical profession to fight, depending on the efficacy of Chinese medicine for life, the famous pharmacies operating in the Chinese herbal medicines are to choose high-quality local herbs, beverage processing and preparation of proprietary Chinese medicines to strive for excellence, the quality of the product reputation, the creation of a number of hundred years of more than a famous brand-name pharmacies, such as Beijing's Tongrentang, Harbin, the Shiyidang, Hangzhou, Huqingyutang, Chongqing's Tongrentang in Beijing, Shiyitang in Harbin, Hu Qingyu Tang in Hangzhou, Tongjunge in Chongqing, Lei Yunshang in Suzhou, and Chen Liji in Guangzhou.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the China National Herbal Medicine Corporation was established to implement the policy of "unified management" of valuable and scarce varieties of medicinal herbs. The first, second and third level wholesale organizations were set up under the central government, which promoted the normal circulation of Chinese medicine commodities. China Pharmaceutical Society Shanghai Branch, Shanghai Municipal Pharmaceutical Company co-editor of the "Compendium of Medicinal Materials", according to the West Huai class, mountain and Zhejiang class, Sichuan and Han class, South Canton class, such as different kinds of Taoist herbs were classified, which reflects the 20th century, "Taoist herbs," the appearance of.

Detailed observation and study of the growth and morphological changes of Daoji herbs after the introduction of seeds or wild to home planting, the growth pattern of the active ingredients or the dynamic accumulation of various components in the herbs, is the way to study the Daoji herbs in depth.