She Nationality Medicine (Liushen Jingluo Gutong medicine manufacturing technology)

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: medicine of She nationality

Applicant: Luoyuan County, Fujian Province

Item No.: 973

Project No.: IX - 13

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Fujian Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Luoyuan County, Fujian Province

Protected by: Fujian Luoyuan Cultural Center

Brief introduction of She Nationality Medicine (Liushen Jingluo Gutong medicine manufacturing technology)

Applicant: Luoyuan County, Fujian 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.

The manufacturing technology of Liushen meridian Gutong medicine is one of the important parts of she traditional medicine. She medicine in Bajing she village, Songshan Town, Luoyuan County, Fujian Province, is a unique skill formed by the She people in the long-term struggle against diseases, summing up and accumulating experience in disease prevention and treatment. In addition to Bajing village, she medicine is also distributed in Tali, huangjiawan, WangYan, shuikouyang, shanlongwan, tingyangban and other she villages in Luoyuan county.

There are more than 1000 kinds of she medicine. She medicine is efficient, cheap, simple and convenient. It can be picked in four seasons and can be found everywhere. She medicine has many secret, partial and mature prescriptions in the treatment of internal, external, eye, orthopedic, traumatic injury, rheumatism, dysentery, epilepsy, toothache, hemorrhoids, infantile malnutrition and other common diseases. Doctors know both medicine and medicine. They often use herbs to treat diseases. Sometimes they use whole herbs, but more often use leaves, stems, flowers, fruits, skins and roots, including woody plants, vines, ferns and fungi. She doctors often carry a cloth bag on their back when they go out to see a doctor. They collect medicine while they go out to see a doctor. It is very effective in the treatment of falls, injuries and miscellaneous diseases.

Like other ethnic medicine, there is no one to inherit the traditional medicine culture of She nationality, which needs to be protected.