The Wonderful Flower of National Medicine —— She Medicine

I believe that everyone has a certain understanding of some medical skills of each nation. She nationality is one of the traditional ethnic groups in China, with a large population, which is generally distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and other places. The medicine of She nationality is unique. So, what do you know about She medicine?

Next, let's look for the answer from the perspective of national culture!

Mountain flowers in full bloom in suffering

She nationality in China has a population of more than 700,000, mainly distributed in Fujian, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Jiangxi. According to reports, the She people call themselves "Shanha", which means "guest" in the She language, that is, "Shanha" is a "guest" who moved from other places to live in the mountains, while the Jingning She people think that their ancestral home is Fenghuang Mountain in Chaozhou, Guangdong. Because she people have lived in remote and remote mountainous areas for a long time, the transportation is inconvenient and the economy is backward. In order to survive and reproduce under the specific historical conditions and geographical environment, the She nationality has learned the skills of preventing and treating diseases and accumulated rich medical experience. She medicine is the experience summary and wisdom crystallization of the She people's long-term struggle against diseases in production and life experiments. She nationality medicine is a natural science, with its own system, unique disease concept, disease classification and special therapy, which embodies the cultural characteristics of She nationality medicine and has unique curative effect on some diseases.

In 2006, after the project of "Investigation and Arrangement of She Folk Medicine in China" initiated by Zhejiang Provincial Health Department, the most comprehensive 400,000-word She Medicine in China was compiled and published. In July, 2007, Zhu Guoben, president of the Chinese Society of Ethnic Medicine, said in the preface to the book: Jingning County used to be a remote, isolated and unknown hilly area. Her medicine is the blooming mountain flower in this misery ... it floats to thousands of families in the mountains with the fragrance of Qingshan herbs.

The medicine of She nationality is unique.

The project of "Investigation and Arrangement of She Folk Medicine in China" was led by Dr. Lei Houxing, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and vice president of Lishui People's Hospital, Zhejiang Province. The research group lasted for more than 6 years, visited and investigated the main settlements of She nationality in China, and sorted out the basic characteristics of She nationality medicine according to a large amount of information obtained from the investigation.

Unique theory:

"Malnutrition Theory" and "Six Spirits Theory" are the main theories of prevention and treatment of diseases in She medicine. Dr. She also divided "malnutrition" into malnutrition in a narrow sense and malnutrition in a broad sense. Malnutrition in a narrow sense is also called "infantile malnutrition". Wind, cold, malnutrition, food and other factors cause many miscellaneous diseases, which are generally called "malnutrition". The Six Spirits consist of heart, liver, lung, spleen, kidney and gallbladder. Her doctor thinks that if they fall, they will get sick. The theory of "miliaria" has formed a whole set of methods to treat miliaria. In addition, she also has a unique understanding of injury and rheumatism. These theoretical foundations form the naming and classification of diseases and the diagnostic methods of She medicine.

Characteristic therapy:

Including external therapy, malnutrition therapy, traditional bonesetting, detoxification and diuretic therapy, diet therapy, psychotherapy and other common remedies. External treatment is still widely used, such as scraping, picking, kneading, pumping, blowing, kneading and ironing. All kinds of hair-trigger skills can often get rid of the disease at hand. The method of bone setting is to use bare-handed reduction, mashed fresh she medicine for external application, and fixed fir bark. In addition, there are secret recipes for snake injury, rheumatism, jaundice hepatitis, pneumonia and osteomyelitis. Her doctor also said that "medicine and food are homologous". Almost every household often uses poultry and livestock with herbs to eat. According to statistics, there are about 100 kinds of food with dietotherapy function.

Medication characteristics:

She medicine is basically a wild plant medicine. She doctors believe that she medicine can be divided into yin and yang, and pay great attention to the balance of yin and yang in medication. She medicine is a warm yang medicine, which grows on the hillside of Chaoyang. Yin medicine for treating ADHD and inflammation grows in Yinshan gully; Drugs that are neither cold nor hot nor cold are called "harmony" drugs, which have a balanced and nourishing effect, and "harmony" drugs grow at a low ebb. She medicinal materials have their variety characteristics, mainly fresh and ready-made, and their processing skills focus on drug introduction and habits of accessories and other drugs.

Tradition: She people are sick, mostly based on ancestral prescriptions, taking She medicine or taking other traditional treatment methods. Therapeutic technology is regarded as a treasure, passed from man to woman, and it is also a custom for women and children to pass on to their daughters-in-law. It is passed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, forming its own system. She doctors, who have a skill, generally focus on skills, still engage in farming, or are semi-agricultural and semi-medical, and also receive meager remuneration.

Research and development have achieved initial results.

Six units, including Lishui People's Hospital of Zhejiang Province, have completed the research and development of She medicine, which has filled the gap in this research in China and made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of She medicine. Its innovative achievements mainly include: on the basis of comprehensive investigation and arrangement of She medicine in the whole country, the first "Special Database of She Medicine Development and Research" was established in China. 776 kinds of diseases were diagnosed and treated, with 2,952 kinds of she medicine 1600 prescriptions. After analyzing and processing these data, 450 disease names, 1 1,000 prescriptions and 1 1,600 commonly used folk medicine of She nationality were merged, and the present situation of folk medicine of She nationality in China was basically understood. It is the first time to apply database software to the research and development of She folk medicine in China. For the first time, the four names of She medicine names, common names, local names and Latin names of plants were compared with 5 17 kinds of She medicine commonly used by the people. He also published monographs and 23 related academic papers. The research results have achieved the purpose of rescuing, sorting out and protecting the medicine of She nationality, and provided a scientific basis for the inheritance of the medicine of She nationality. The research project "Investigation and Arrangement of She Folk Medicine in China" won the second prize of Zhejiang Traditional Chinese Medicine Science and Technology Innovation.

At the same time, seven effective prescriptions, such as reducing blood lipid and treating hepatitis B, were selected from she medicine 1003 prescriptions for clinical verification, reported to the hospital for preparation data, and conducted pharmacological and toxicological tests in she medicine, such as Gentiana. The processing technology of 1 she medicine has been approved by Zhejiang Drug Administration, and has been incorporated into the processing standard of traditional Chinese medicine in Zhejiang Province. Choosing health tea as the breakthrough point of the development and utilization of She medicine, two kinds of health teabags with the functions of invigorating stomach and reducing blood fat were developed for the first time, and good benefits were achieved after they were put on the market.

In 2007, the "She Medicine" project declared by Lishui She Medicine Research Association was approved by the Zhejiang provincial government to be included in the second batch of Zhejiang intangible cultural heritage protection list; In June 2008, the project was listed as a national "non-legacy" protection list.

The protection of intangible heritage has a long way to go.

The health departments of Zhejiang Province and Lishui City have done a lot of exploration, protection, inheritance and promotion of She medicine, and achieved remarkable results. It should be said that the research of She medicine has just started, and there are still many difficulties and problems. Because she nationality only has language, but no writing, and her medicine is circulated by the people, unlike Tibetan, Mongolian, Uygur and other nationalities, which have both language and written records, it is difficult to study her medicine. Most of the existing doctors of She nationality are old, and some famous doctors of She nationality have passed away. For various reasons, young She people seldom study She medicine, which leads to a serious shortage of successors in the cause of She medicine. The state still lacks the support of policies and regulations for doctors of She nationality, so it is difficult for her doctors to obtain the qualification of practicing doctors. The state has strict control over the examination and approval of drugs and hospital preparations, so it is difficult for she medicine to develop. The lack of medical protection and serious damage of She nationality have led to the decrease of medical resources of She nationality. The guarantee mechanism for the research and protection of She medicine is not perfect and lacks the necessary financial input. At the same time, we should also see that the influence of today's strong culture and modern advanced medicine on She medicine is all-round. These difficulties and problems need further study and take practical measures to solve them.

Zhejiang and Lishui governments and relevant departments are further strengthening the protection, rescue and research and development of She medicine. In the interview, the reporter felt that people are full of expectations for the intangible cultural heritage of She medicine, which will become another business card for protecting traditional culture in Zhejiang Province.