Why is it said that since ancient times the Yao family is a medicine family How many secrets are hidden in the Dayao Mountain?

Daoyao Mountain, where the Yao people of Jinxiu, Guangxi have lived for generations. The people get their water and sustenance from the Yao Mountains, and they also look for secret recipes to nourish their lives here.

Historical records show that the large-scale migration of Yao people to Guangxi took place during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In order to escape war and disease, the Yao people entered the sparsely populated Guangxi from the more densely populated Hunan and Fujian. In the early days, the Yao people lived a hard life and lacked medicine, so they could only find their own medicinal herbs from the living environment to save themselves. The Yao people, through their own experience and groping, gradually accumulated a set of local herbs, medical and pharmaceutical combination of experience in treating diseases, which is the formation of Yao medicine. Nowadays, Yao medicine is gradually known to the people and is closely connected with the Dayao Mountain. It can be said that the extremely rich flora and fauna resources of the Dayao Mountains provide a natural endowment for the development of Yao medicine.

The Yao people do not have their own words, and their ancestors have relied on the method of oral tradition to inherit their medical skills and prescriptions.

Pang Fowan's family had always been the local Yao "Dao Gong", so they were all fluent in Chinese characters, and they wrote down their ancient medical skills in books and passed them down.

Early Yao medicine, because of the lack of scientific guidance, was inevitably influenced by religion, and even had some witchdoctor colors, but with the personal practice of Yao people from generation to generation, the proportion of the scientific component of Yao medicine has been increasing. To treat people, Pang Fuwan relies on prescriptions that have been passed down from generation to generation.

In the past, the secret prescriptions of Yao medicine were not passed on to outsiders, but with the development of the times, Yao doctors preferred to communicate with each other.

Fire attack therapy, in which medicinal wine made from herbs that remove wind and dampness is warmed and combined with hand massage to make the medicine penetrate the affected area, is a Yao specialty.

Eye diagnosis is a traditional diagnostic method in Yao medicine. As the Yao medicine according to the function of herb flavor summarized as "five tigers", "nine cows", "eighteen diamonds", "seventy-two wind", "104 kinds of", "the wind", "the wind", "the wind", "the wind", "the wind", "the wind", "the wind" and "the wind". "104 kinds of" old class medicine "like, Yao medicine diagnosis method is also summarized as eye diagnosis, nail diagnosis, tongue diagnosis, etc., and the treatment method is more complex, there are acupuncture, scraping and pushing, medicinal baths, etc., no matter in the clinical practice or theoretically, Chinese medicine and even modern medicine are quite important supplement.

Dressed in Yao clothing, see the doctor with Yao Fang, Chu Qingchun is an active "Yaoization" of the foreigners. Even so, Chu Qingchun did not expect, he such a "into the mountain Yao", actually won the "autonomous region intangible cultural heritage of Yao medicine representative inheritor" title.

In 2012, with the Jinxiu Yao Autonomous County, the first batch of "Yao medical practitioner qualification certificate" issued by the Yao medical practitioners Yao medicine from the folk to formalization, which further excavation, protection, continuation and revitalization of the Yao medicine culture, has a milestone significance.

Yao medicine in the mountains of Yao medicine, not only for the survival of the Yao people, reproduction, development has made irreplaceable great contribution, but also because of its ecological, focusing on the coordination of man and nature and precious, has become a valuable heritage and wealth of mankind **** with.