Miao medicine (zuanjiefeng therapy)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Miao medicine (zuanjiefeng therapy)

Applicant: Huayuan County, Hunan Province

Item No.: 975

Project No.: IX - 15

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: traditional medicine

Region: Hunan Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Huayuan County, Hunan Province

Protection unit: Xiangxi Qingshan Miao Medical Culture Co., Ltd

Introduction of Miao medicine (zuanjiefeng therapy)

Applicant: Huayuan County, Hunan Province

Miao medicine is a traditional medicine handed down from generation to generation by the Miao people. It is based on the "three principles" in the context of ancient Chongshan culture and Wuling culture. Heaven, earth and human are synchronized. Miao doctors believe that poison, deficiency, injury, accumulation, bacteria and insects are the six factors that lead to human diseases. In the final analysis, the sixth reason is that the way to produce toxic force can cause human body to get sick, so Miao medicine has always said that "non-toxic does not get sick". Such as wind poison, cold poison, fire poison, gas poison, water poison, salt poison, etc. The Miao medicine zuanjiefeng formula is a national traditional medicine in the treasure house of Miao medicine, which is specially aimed at the diseases caused by wind toxin and cold toxin, such as tendon pain, waist and leg pain, sciatica, zuanjiefeng, wind toxin itching, injury, fracture, wind around the shoulder, weakness of muscles and bones, etc.

The Miao medicine Zuan Jiefeng therapy is one of the Miao medicine therapies. The main medicine is the root of Bignoniaceae plant Bignoniaceae. It is a deciduous woody vine with yellowish brown stems, air roots, odd pinnate compound leaves, opposite leaves, leaflets, flowers in sparse large apical cymose panicles, red yellow corolla, flowering period from July to September, yellow or yellow red root appearance and longitudinal cracks. It has the functions of annealing, detoxifying, complementing, relieving pain, relaxing tendons and bones, strengthening tendons and muscles. It is mainly used in the treatment of muscle and bone pain, lumbocrural pain, numbness of limbs, traumatic injury, fracture, sciatica, zuojiefeng, wind around the shoulder, wind toxin itching, irregular menstruation, weakness of muscles and bones, etc.

There are 8.901 million Miao people in China (according to the fifth national census in 2000), mainly distributed in Guizhou, Hunan and Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture. Miao medicine is mainly used by the Miao people, and the surrounding Tujia, Zhuang, Dong, Yao, Han and other nationalities also exchange and cross use. Due to its convenient application and good curative effect, Miao medicine has been popularized to the whole country as an appropriate technology for rural medical and health care.