Municipal Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Program of Shanghai Yu Tiancheng Medicine Co.

City Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project of Yu Tiancheng's Traditional Chinese Medicine, which was listed by the municipal government in June 2009 as an Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Project.

Yu Tiancheng Hall was established at the beginning, the founder Yu Youyuan put forward the "authentic medicinal materials, cultivation and refinement, the true price of goods, children and old men, famous doctors sit in the hall, treating the sick to save people" 24 words to run the store policy.

YuTianChengTang successive generations, please SongJiang area famous Chinese medicine doctor sitting diagnosis, such as meet poor people, give medicine, do not take money, charity. Yu Xiu when the beginning of the "Da", it spared no effort to collect folk remedies, the development of pills and creams. Because of the remarkable efficacy of proprietary Chinese medicines, they became precious gifts for the public to use as daily tonic or to present to friends and relatives, and became famous in the Suzhou-Hangzhou area. When Yu Wuqing was in charge, he produced a large number of pills and creams with his own unique secret recipe, which were marked by the "Deer and Crane" floating picture. Such as deer pills, ginseng rejuvenation pills, marching loose, brain sand paste, Shouwu longevity Dan, the plague Dan, tonic Qiyuan wine, donkey skin glue ...... and so on. Among them to the whole deer pills, ginseng rejuvenation pills for many old people and farmers love, treatment of dementia, back pain effect; brain sand cream treatment of sores have special treatment.

In 1931, after several generations of research and accumulation, Yu Tiancheng Hall, proofreading into the "Pills and Scattered Complete Collection" three books (divided into the upper, middle and lower three volumes, now stored in the District Archives), and Yu Tiancheng Hall, "Pills and Scattered Creams and Dans Complete Collection" a book, which records a division of the internal, gynecological, external, injuries, pediatrics, and madness, etc., the pCm "pills, scatters, creams, dans, flower dew, medicinal liquor, qu, ingots," and other secret formula 488 "The secret formulae and production process. Formulation and production process. Among them, there are not only the inherent proprietary formulas with reference to the medical books of the past generations, but also collected a lot of prescriptions and secret formulas scattered in the folklore, which condensed the efforts of the predecessors of Tianchengtang for more than a hundred years.

These complete collections record the pride and glory of Yu Tiansheng Hall, and 86-year-old medicine man Yan Chuyu remembers that once upon a time, Yu Tiansheng Hall's signature medicine, ginseng rejuvenation pills, were particularly popular, "used to remove pain and vitalize the blood and strengthen the body, and because of the obvious effect, many farmers in Jiashan, Qingpu and other places came to buy them in Songjiang! "Li Yongting, a 93-year-old pharmacist, said, "In the 1940s, Yu Tianchengtang also slaughtered deer in public to make medicine, and even Hangzhou people came to buy the whole deer pill. At that time, Sanyou Industry Company, which made the export medicine 'Fortune and Glory Pill', got all the raw materials from Yu Tianchengtang".

Shanghai Pharmaceutical Journal said, Yu Tiancheng Tang "set up its own pharmaceutical workshop, developing pills, creams and elixirs, flower dew and medicinal wine. The main products are deer pills, ginseng rejuvenation pills, marching pills, brain sand cream, Shouwu longevity pills, pestilence pills, fat children's eight treasures cake, rheumatism medicinal wine, donkey skin gelatin, as well as anti-summer drinks, honeysuckle dew, the skin of the earth, lotus leaf dew, and so on". Yutianchengtang is very particular about the selection of ingredients, such as the stone dragon seeds in the Pestilence Pill, which must be selected from the bamboo garden behind the Lingyin Temple in Hangzhou within five days around the Dragon Boat Festival, so the efficacy is very remarkable. 89-year-old pharmacist Ying Renjie recounted: "In 1942, when the cholera plague broke out in Shanghai, a lot of people in Songjiang also died, but 400-500 people took the Pestilence Pill of our church in time to get a new life, and at that time, the Pestilence Pill of our hall was a good choice for the new life. But 400-500 people got a new life after taking our Pestilence in time, and it was too late to produce Pestilence at that time. Nearly 80 years old, the former manager of Songjiang Pharmaceutical Company, Fang Liang, Zheng Han Yi recalled, "I heard the legend of my predecessors, in 1880, Zuo Zongtang was appointed as Minister of Qinzhi, overseeing the military affairs in Xinjiang, sitting in Jiuquan, Gansu, convened a number of Qing troops to crush the invasion of the Aguibai army in Xinjiang, but the soldiers were not accustomed to the soil and water and fell sick a large number of people. At that time, Zuo Zongtang asked the red-top businessman Hu Xueyan for help. Hu Xueyan gave the task to Hu Qingyu Hall, the first A Da Yu Xiuchu, Yu Xiuchu according to the Yu Tiancheng Hall formula, technology, selection of materials processed into marching loose, pestilence Dan, Dendrobium night-lighting pills, generals served to get rid of miasma in the mountains and arteries, and the morale was greatly revitalized. The second time he went to war, completely routed the Agubai army and recovered a large part of the country".

Combined with the fame of sitting Chinese medicine and careful diagnosis, Yu Tiancheng Hall of homemade cream has flourished. Before the liberation of Songjiang, the people of Songjiang circulated a saying that "Yu Tiansheng Hall's pills made of rotten mud can be sold", which insinuates that Yu Tiansheng Hall's pills are good for sale, and that the pills and pills are made of exquisite materials with remarkable efficacy, which the people absolutely believe in.

Before the liberation, some famous Chinese medicine practitioners in Shanghai used to sit in Yu Tiancheng store, such as Zhang Kinsan in internal surgery, Xia Zhongfang (later president of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine) and Dai Dafu (later professor of Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine) in internal medicine, etc. These Chinese medicine practitioners were all of high moral character and superb medical skills, and in the 1940s, Ke Deqiong, a well-known person in Songjiang, founded the Deqiong Hospital, but his son's illness was also invited to Yu Tiancheng to sit in Xia Zhongfang. Medical treatment, after the second formula to take medication will be cured.

In 1956, during the public-private partnership of Yu Tiancheng Hall, all the traditional Chinese medicine practitioners were stripped from the pharmacy, and they were organized to set up a joint clinic to implement the separation of medicines. 1958 January, Shanghai was merged by Tong Hanchun, Lei Yunsheng, Cai Tongde, Hu Qingyu and other traditional Chinese medicine stores into the Shanghai Traditional Chinese Medicine and Pharmaceutical I, II, III factory to form a large-scale production, at that time, Yu Tiancheng Hall due to the production of poor equipment and lack of talent, etc., the traditional Chinese medicines and pharmaceuticals are not only the most popular, but also the best. At that time, Yu Tiancheng Tang gradually reduced the production of proprietary Chinese medicines due to poor production equipment and lack of talents. By the mid-sixties, all the pharmacies and processing centers in the city had stopped the production of proprietary Chinese medicines, and Yu Tiancheng Tang's homemade pills and creams also came to an end.

Early eighties, approved by the government, Yu Tiancheng Hall resumed the famous doctor sitting hall clinic business. Now Yu Tiancheng Hall on the second floor has 7 famous doctors clinic room, an area of more than 200 square meters, there are Yang Guisheng, Xu Zuogang, Shen Cizhu, plugging Jijiang, Yuan Jiliang, Liu Keding and other 15 famous traditional Chinese medicine doctors of Songjiang sitting, including 7 deputy chief physician, divided into internal medicine, external medicine, gynecology, early childhood and other specialties, in 2008 the annual outpatient clinic 74,276 people. Chen Yingzhu, a female Chinese medicine practitioner, has made innovations in inheriting ancient prescriptions and has been effective in treating infertility.

In 1994, Yu Tiancheng Hall ended the history of Gaojialang processing plant, the processing plant relocated to No. 446, Ledu Road, opened a Chinese medicine factory, which occupies an area of 7,800 square meters, and introduces modern production equipment, producing 516 varieties of tablets. Now Yu Tiancheng Traditional Chinese Medicine Tablets Company produces "Yu Tiancheng" brand of small packages of Cordyceps, Codonopsis, Astragalus, Radix et Rhizoma Ginseng and other refined tablets of more than 20 kinds of refined tablets set up on the second floor of the Yu Tiancheng Hall, to meet the public consumption.

In the nineties, Yu Tiancheng Hall resumed the business of decoction of traditional Chinese medicines, and in 2000, it launched the service of free prescription of individual tonic formula and decoction of ointment medicine by sitting doctors. Only in 2008, the free opening of personal winter tonic cream 5235 material, on behalf of the decoction of ointment medicine 3297 material.