Medicine of She nationality

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: she medicine (Sha disease therapy)

Applicant: Lishui City, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 973

Project No.: IX - 13

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Lishui City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Lishui SHE Medicine Research Association

She medicine (Sha disease therapy) brief introduction:

Applicant: Lishui City, Zhejiang Province

She medicine is mainly distributed in seven counties (cities, districts) in Lishui City, Zhejiang Province. The radiation areas include Taishun and Wencheng in Zhejiang Province and some towns in Fujian Province.

She medicine is a traditional medicine that she people explore and create in the long-term production and life practice to adapt to the living environment and survival health requirements. It is an important part of traditional Chinese medicine, and has the characteristics of regional, national and family. As she people live in mountainous areas or semi mountainous areas, they have unique medical methods and medication habits, and accumulated a lot of ancestral secret recipes and experience in the treatment of traumatic injury, snake injury, rheumatism, jaundice and hepatitis, infantile malnutrition, pneumonia, osteomyelitis, etc. Because she nationality has language but no writing, she medicine is mostly taught by mouth and heart, learning and testing. Medicine is integrated, which is more important than practice. Its characteristics of self diagnosis, self collection, self-control, self matching and self use determine the difficulty of its inheritance. At present, most of the folk she doctors are old, and some of them have passed away. Therefore, it is urgent to rescue and develop she medicine.

She medicine is one of the most characteristic treatment methods in she medicine. Many she medicine and she people still inherit and master a variety of hair Sha techniques, and most of them have the effect of getting rid of the disease. The main treatment of Sha disease is fa Sha therapy. For patients with mild disease, Gua Sha, CuO Sha, Sha and rub Sha are often used. The most commonly used drugs are Litsea cubeba, copper coin, centipede, sticky flowers, white leaves and so on.

The medical knowledge of She nationality is intuitive, vivid, full of philosophy, and the treatment is very characteristic. But there is no unified view on the types of Sha disease. Some think that there are 36 kinds of Sha syndrome, but most think there are 72 kinds, and there are 108 kinds.

Sha disease therapy of she medicine is an important part of she medicine, and also a treasure in the treasure house of Chinese medicine, which is of great significance to the inheritance and development of Chinese medicine culture. At present, this national traditional medicine culture, like other traditional medicine cultures, is facing the impact of Western medicine and Western medicine. It is difficult and urgent to be protected.