Development history of topical ointment

The ointments and creams in topical ointments have been used for a long time in China. In the "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" (Suwen), there is already a record of "sparingly counseling and applying ointment to the canker sores". Hua Tuo, a famous doctor in the Han Dynasty, used to use "divine ointment" to promote wound healing after performing surgical operations. Ge Hong of the Jin Dynasty, "after the elbow to prepare the emergency prescription" in the use of ragweed, mutton fat and other medicinal materials and the refining of ointment records; the same era of Gong Qingyi's "Liu Juan Zi ghosts left behind the formula" and Qi Zhucheng Chu's legacy of dermatological medicine have important developments, which has a variety of "thin paste" records, has been more widely used in the skin to absorb good animal fat as a base for ointment. Animal fat as ointment base. Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao's "Thousand Golden Wings Formula" contains "ointment" formula, which consists of raw aconite, sesame oil, cinnabar and wax. Preparation method for the "oil in a copper vessel, frying on a slight fire, until the morning look at the oil to reduce a point, under the yellow Dan, eliminated; under the wax to make the foam eliminated to paste into ......" It can be seen that the preparation of ointment has been prepared at that time. Song Dynasty, by Chen Shiwen and other compositions, the Song court issued the "Taiping Huimin and the Bureau of Pharmacy prescription", pills, powder, cream, Dan and other proprietary Chinese medicines have been perfected. External cream to the Ming and Qing dynasties more development, the great pharmacist Li Shizhen compiled the "Compendium of Materia Medica" has more than 40 kinds of dosage forms, of which there are many varieties of cream; Qing Dynasty Wu Shiqi's "Ri Bo Pianwen" is a monograph on the cream of the formula, application, especially in the preparation of the cream of the preparation of the process have been summarized in a more complete, and there is a further development and improvement. Such as the type of ointment, is not simply the use of oil and camphor dan, and the creation of white ointment, gum ointment, rosin ointment, and so on.

External plasters are not only created in China very early, but also in foreign applications is relatively early. Especially in recent times, there has been a rapid development in the ointment matrix and method of preparation, rubber ointment and so on.

The ointment is made of edible vegetable oil and yellow dan or lead powder, etc., refined at high temperature into a hard paste of lead as a substrate, and contains medicines or extracts of Chinese herbs for external preparations.

Poultice is a traditional form of Chinese preparations, as early as in the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "after the elbow to prepare the emergency formula" has oil, Dan boiled into the "cream" records. Liu Song "Liu Juan Zi ghosts left side" also has a variety of "thin towel" records, "thin" refers to ointment, "paste" refers to ointment. Since the Tang and Song on the application of ointment is more extensive, the Qing Dynasty Wu Shiqi written by the "Li Bo Pianwen" for the application of ointment monographs in the application of traditional Chinese medicine clinics and folk medicine is still widely used ointment.

Poultices are often used to reduce swelling, pull out poison, muscle and other external treatment; but it is through the external paste, but also can play a role in internal treatment, such as driving wind and cold, and qi and blood, eliminating phlegm and plaque, through the meridians and activate collaterals, the method of rheumatism, treatment of bruises and so on. When discussing the role of plasters in "Li Bo Ewen", there is "cut off" and "pull out", which says that "where the disease is gathered, pulling out is out of the disease, no deep internal trouble; outside of the disease through, cut off is the evil from the cut, no risk of changing The first is the "Cream of the Crop", which is a new and innovative method of applying the Cream to the skin.

There are many kinds of ointment, with oil and Huangdan as the substrate for the black ointment; oil and Gong powder as the substrate for the white ointment; rosin and other rosin as the substrate for the rosin ointment. The most commonly used is the black ointment.