Tibetan medicine (processing technique of Tibetan medicine arula)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Tibetan Medicine

Applicant: Qinghai Jinhe Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd

Project No.: 448

Project No.: IX - 9

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Qinghai Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Qinghai Jinhe Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd

Protection unit: Jinhe Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd

Introduction to Tibetan medicine (processing technology of Tibetan medicine arula)

Applicant: Qinghai Jinhe Tibetan Medicine Co., Ltd

Tibetan medicine is an important part of Chinese traditional medicine and an important representative of Chinese national medicine.

Tibetan medicine has a long history. It is the medical experience accumulated by Tibetan people in the special environment of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau. Its classic work "four medical classics" was written in the Tubo Dynasty in the second half of the 8th century. It was written by the famous Tibetan medicine expert Yutuo Gongbu on New Year's day. The combination of Tibetan medicine and Tibetan astronomy and calendar is a huge and complex medical system. Tibetan medicine is based on the theory of "water, fire, earth, wind and air" and the theory of "dragon, Chiba and Bacon". It takes the plants, animals, minerals and some "Southern medicine" of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau as the basic medicine, and adopts the practice mode of adapting to the plateau environment and nomadic life, It has a unique curative effect on common diseases, frequently occurring diseases and endemic diseases in high altitude hypoxia environment, and its health culture has been paid more and more attention by the medical community.

Due to the vast territory of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau, high mountains and steep waters, the ethnic and regional characteristics of Tibetan medicine culture are obvious, and the diagnosis, medical technology and medicine of Tibetan medicine are often different in different regions and schools. In recent decades, with the construction of Tibetan medicine and the extensive development of academic exchanges, the inheritance and promotion of Tibetan medicine have made remarkable achievements.

"Arula" is the fruit of chebula chebula or chebula villosa, which grows in the forest between 800 and 1800 meters above sea level. It is mainly distributed in Guangxi, Yunnan, India, Nepal, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. It is a common raw material for Tibetan medicine for thousands of years. Arula is the Tibetan translation of "Hezi". "Zhalaga explanation" says: "a" is the most popular word, which can cure diseases caused by dragon, Chiba and bacon; "ru" is with flesh, bone and skin, which can cure three diseases; "La" is like rhinoceros horn, which can cure seven diseases of vital energy. Therefore, it is called arula. "

Arula is the most widely used and representative Tibetan medicine with obvious particularity, distinctive inclusiveness and regional characteristics. It is said that there are five kinds of mature Terminalia chebula on Yaowang mountain, which have six kinds of flavor and eight kinds of performance. After digestion, they have three kinds of flavor and seventeen kinds of efficacy. The medicine is fragrant, which makes people feel relaxed and happy. Where the medicine goes, 404 kinds of diseases will not occur.

Arula has a wide range of corresponding treatments for human body. Its root can cure bone diseases, stem can cure skin diseases, branch can cure diseases of human limbs, leaf can cure diseases of human meridians, bark can cure skin diseases, and flower can cure diseases of human facial features.

Due to the influence of modern medicine, people's understanding of Tibetan medicine is not enough, which affects the inheritance of Tibetan medicine and needs to be protected by the state.