What are the main medicinal herbs in the old Beijing pharmacy, the old Yong An Tang?

In the old Beijing pharmaceutical industry, there used to be the saying "Inner Yongan" and "Outer Tongren. The "Inner Yongan" was the Yongantang Ginseng and Antiherb Pharmacy located at the southeast corner of the Dongsi Pailou, which is now the Yongantang Pharmacy.

It is said that Yongantang was built in the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle period (1416), the specific time is not available. The owner of the store has changed many times, to the former Qing Dynasty, once for the Dong Si Pailou Dong family gold store belongs to the number. After several generations of hard work, to the 1930s reached its heyday.

YongAnTang mainly dealt with ginseng and antlers, tablets, precious herbs, and was able to make its own pills and creams, and had its own production and processing plant.

YongAnTang was able to produce 16 kinds of Chinese medicines in about 1100 kinds of pCms. Among them, Zixue San, Antelope Antidote Pill, and Shenzhu Huapang Cream were very famous.

The Preface of Yongan Tang Medicine catalog engraved during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty says: "The store is real with the name, and the wealth is generated by the way. With the real estate and levy materials, all kinds of and according to the Shen Nong done; Feng Cheng Fang fixed products, general all hold Park's legacy, there are creams and pills and pills and loose." This text tells the story of YongAnTang from the selection of materials to the elaboration of the concoctions. The medicines it concocts are divided into more than a dozen subjects such as wind and phlegm, typhoid, plague, summer dampness, dryness and fire, tonic, spleen and stomach, diarrhea and dysentery, eyesight, gynecology, phlegm and coughing, sores, pediatrics, pharynx and mouth and mouth and so on, with over 1,100 kinds of medicines. YongAnTang concocted NiuHuang QingXin Pills, AnGongNiuHuang Pills, NiuHuang QingGong Pills, Ginseng and Deer Antler Pills, WanYingZhuang, GuLingJi, etc., which have good therapeutic effects and are the famous medicines of the hall.

YongAnTang was famous in the society from the middle and late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China. Yanshan Yang Wen A for the Yongan Hall title "Jishi Baoji", Jiang Chaozong title "Jishi Shumin", Shang Zhen title "Apricot Grove Spring Warmth", Wu Peifu title "ambition to live", Song Zheyuan title "Caiyun Huibu", Qin Dechun title "work with the creation of the world" and so on.

YongAnTang although weathered, through the war but can, as always, adhere to the "real and the name of the vice, the wealth of the road to birth" business philosophy, so it can flourish.

As stated in the "Yongan Hall reissue of ginseng and antler gelatin wake up nine San Dan price list statement": the Hall "long study of pathology, deep attack on the nature of medicine, specializing in the transportation of provincial authentic raw and ripe herbs, in accordance with the ancient formula and the secret of the famous doctors, religious repair of a variety of pills and salts Dan; selected ginseng and antler gelatin, and the production of North and South of the fine drinking tablets; and the establishment of a medicinal nursery to cultivate a variety of fresh medicines. The price of goods is real, famous for a long time."