Yao medicine (medicated bath therapy)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Yao medicine (medicated bath therapy)

Applicant: Congjiang County, Guizhou Province

Item No.: 974

Project No.: IX - 14

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Guizhou Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Congjiang County, Guizhou Province

Protection unit: Congjiang Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Brief introduction of Yao medicine (medicated bath therapy)

Applicant: Congjiang County, Guizhou Province

Yao medicine bath therapy is a traditional health treatment method for Yao people in Gaopo Yao village in Congjiang County, Guizhou Province, which uses medicine bath to strengthen their body, resist wind and cold, eliminate fatigue and prevent diseases. It is a health care prescription originally created by the ancestors of Yao nationality. This unique health culture of Yao nationality has been inherited for hundreds of years and is the crystallization of Yao people's collective wisdom.

Yao medicine bath is mainly to boil a variety of plant medicine at high temperature, pour it into the Chinese fir barrel, and let people sit in the barrel to soak in the fumigation bath, so that the liquid can penetrate into the body's internal organs and meridians, so as to achieve the effect of dispelling wind and dehumidification, perspiration and detoxification, promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis.

This medicine has no side effects and is beneficial to human viscera, blood and nervous system. It is in line with the pursuit of green medicine by modern people. However, restricted by various objective conditions, the development of Yao medicine (medicated bath therapy) is not satisfactory, which is in urgent need of protection and promotion.