LiShiZhen and zheng he's back to the western medicine

China's traditional Chinese medicine to

        Ming yongle three years (1405 years) to the description of eight years (1433 years) 28 years, our famous zheng he's led the ships seven times mission Atlantic, not only from the diplomatic, economic, trade, and cultural aspects of the development of China's foreign relations, and introduce the foreign materials, enrich the team of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).

        Zheng he as a navigator, attaches great importance to sail away in the seafarers' health care work. According to the load, zheng, every time to sea, are equipped with "the physician assistant doctor more than one hundred and eighty", and the use of too hospital physician, "the Lord one of the ship's disease", the average every ship set medical 2 ~ 3 name. One of them is a physician, named wish 玹, hubei huanggang, Ming yongle too hospital medical assistant, at that time with the physician to zheng he's voyage. Load historical data record, by too hospital the strike, the yongle emperor qin quasi too hospital medical assistant wish 玹 "squire eunuch SanBao (zheng) ocean, calendar ZhuFan kingdom, and every twelve years". During the western, zheng he in the ship is equipped with good distinguishes the herbal medicine professional pharmaceutical worker, specifically for the western countries trade medicinal materials were identified. Zheng he's seven trips to the western seas, from true wax, such as bohai mud states foreign back to a large number of medicinal materials country, and has become an important part of Chinese materia medica.

        Our country in Ming dynasty, the great medical experts LiShiZhen Ming wanli seven years (1579 years) as the compendium of materia medica KeShu things to nanjing. Nanjing was culture-enriched, LiShiZhen just use this kind of opportunity, enrich their research work. He not only here to see many like "mountain paint" that drugs, and have the opportunity to and from quanzhou ship business contact, and from there to understand the condition of some foreign materials.

        Nanjing lion the foot of the calm sea temple, zheng he's old age is the place, has been to wanli period, inside also preserve the zheng he's kind of some foreign flowers and trees. Zheng he's out of the soldiers, the labor, the boatman after returning home are placed in this, they bring back the foreign drug and part of the preserved, the relevant foreign legend also distribute in nanjing folk. These are LiShiZhen study foreign medicine the best materials. LiShiZhen here to see and hear a lot about the foreign drug knowledge, such as rhinoceros horn, antelope horn, ferulic, frankincense, clove, radix aucklandiae, aloe, momordica cochinchinensis, Sue $oil, amber, wood, sand benevolence, sea red, external scurfpea fruit, benzoin, dragon 涏 incense, fall really sweet, red sandalwood incense, and build up fan sweet, jia common bluebeard, styrax and terebinth, jackfruit, "Michael, I 诃 li le and Chinese herbal medicine with zheng he's fleet enter our country, LiShiZhen get these information, the compendium of materia medica to modified complement, enrich the content.

        Benzoin, LiShiZhen in the compendium of materia medica "records," rest, name also. Brahmana is known as the station bei LuoXiang." "Benzoin out XiRong", "life south China sea Persian kingdom, and tree fat also, shape if peach gum", "resident evil spirit henchmen, cholera wind pain, man, woman spermatorrhea blood keep silent, and postpartum blood supply". Frankincense, is one of the three treasures of the sultanate of Oman, LiShiZhen the compendium of materia medica steel wood "says balm for sea medicine," as its vertical drop such as nipple ", "south China sea, is born Persian resin, purple red cherry, transparent person for", "the daqin kingdom", "south India, o world ruled to of the country, is known as the west incense, south and is a plus, namely frankincense also." And saffron, first load in the compendium of materia medica ", the India after into Tibet shipped to the mainland, in fact it's hometown in Spain. Red sea, a sea tangli, LiShiZhen yue, "all flowers and trees to name the sea, all from overseas to, such as such as Chinese flowering crabapple is also red. The sea is a flower, the xinluo its kingdom, the Chinese flowering crabapple self overseas have according to the self." Drop really sweet, "born in the south China sea mountains and large Thailand." Lead oxide, Lou China, "all out of the Persian kingdom." Ferulic, "Persian kingdom call o for badly and tianzhu countries call for shape threat." Amber, "Persian much ground for object shape." Styrax, "this sweet out Sue close countries, because to name." Terebinth, "the real wax tree kingdom, the fat also." Polo close, "annan even penny jia knot, Persian name woman that she." "Jackfruit born into toe, south nations states." Bob, Michael, "a Persian of shittim, brahman of shittim. Brahman, the western regions name; Persian, southwest name also o. I was born LinGuo whisk, shaped like a hard round long, taste delicious, and whisk gump forest people call for o pear." "Compendium of materia medica" load medicine 1892 each, belong to foreign-made drug have 118 kinds, with Persian kingdom for the most, there are 24, followed by south ", west and, XiRong, qiang, west countries, daqin kingdom, nine true kingdom, and true preserved kingdom, and whisk LinGuo, DaWan kingdom, and Sue close kingdom, and kofi annan kingdom, tianzhu kingdom, and woman law countries, Russian nation, ghost kingdom, jia old romanian village, the east China sea, the south China sea, sea, sea trace countries, etc.

        "Compendium of materia medica" in the case of Chinese and foreign medicine knowledge, a total of nearly 60 quoted the ancient works, including chorography travel notes "XingCha tabled wins," a book. The book is of zheng he's voyage with MaHuan, fee letter, 巩珍 etc to the western narrative a variety of experiences and exotic customs, geographical environment, climate, eating and living and health habits and written work. Zheng he's voyage attaches great attention to the drinking water sanitation, in his huge fleet, have on the ship for loading fresh cabin, and have designed put fresh "water ship". For foot fresh water, to ensure the smooth sailing ships. In addition, zheng he each to a foreign country, is paid great attention to where the climate, geographical environment and health habits. The XingCha tabled wins "the book describes the giri to stuffy, namely this timor," climate toward sunset hot cold, all the business of the ship disease, ten to death, cover the miasma and what with the pollution is also ". All the ships arrived, zheng he's even crew not to log in, fleet for short stay namely anchor sailing. None who go to a venereal disease popular island port, banned crew single walk alone, to avoid her dye. These records for LiShiZhen understand external medicine external disease providing precious historical data. (ZhuHeZhong)