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Introduction of Imperial Han Medicine

"Imperial Chinese medicine" is a product of the Meiji Restoration era in Japan. In the wave of westernization of the Meiji Restoration in Japan, Chinese medicine was once banned, and the medical profession at that time called Chinese medicine "Chinaman medicine". However, there were still people in the private sector who actively inherited the ancient wisdom of Chinese medicine and continued to use the honorific title "Huang Han" for the Han people who invented Chinese medicine. Under the influence of this trend, consciously or unconsciously, the word "Huang" was used in medicine, and the traditional "Chinese medicine", "Chinese medicine", "Oriental medicine" were renamed "Oriental medicine". The traditional "Chinese medicine", "Chinese medicine", and "Oriental medicine" were renamed "Imperial Chinese medicine". At the time of the famous doctor (ancient prescription school leader) Mr. Tang Ben seek truth to "Huang Han medicine" and become the name of the book, Tang Ben to Chinese medicine academic interpretation of this book, the contents of the book is very valuable. After Japan's defeat in the war, a comprehensive purge of the cultural imprint of militarism, "Imperial Chinese Medicine" because the word "Imperial" is also implicated, had to be changed to "Chinese medicine". "Huang Han medicine" of the word, the popularity of a very short, now the medical profession has no one to use this word.