"Folk prescription" in medicine
 
 
Su Yang 

        Exploration of traditional Chinese medicine is the secret of life itself, inspects the history of TCM, apparently "folk remedies or" folk medicine experience, plays an extremely important role. 
 
        When the warring states period written shanhaijing, recorded more than one hundred kinds of animals, plants and minerals drugs. But the records on drug efficacy is simple, such as: "Bi li...... has heartache of food", "wen stem... may have deaf". This way of records of drug efficacy, similar folk remedies in the form of word of mouth. Experience of oral transmission has several features: the characteristics of the disease obviously, as long as there is life experience can grasp; Medicine was corresponding to a kind of disease, such as "crab shell" cure "fish". 
 
        Folk remedies in spreading, rarely distinguish the type of disease. Such as toothache with Chinese prickly ash, the folk experience on propagation is impossible to distinguish between the gum pain, root pain or decayed tooth pain. Such as "cortex eucommiae cure lumbago" again, the experience of the folk wisdom is impossible difference between lumbar problems or the waist. 
 
        Nearly 2000 years from han dynasty to the qing dynasty, on average every 400 medica recorded in the books of drugs will be double, and new drugs for the first time appear in the books, records of its efficacy is very simple, mostly kept very strong experience in folk color. Such as "honeysuckle" first appeared in compendium of material medica in the new, just remember in the book "Lord fever and swollen" five words. 
 
        This shows that the ancient's first thought on drug efficacy, mostly from spread in the folk is relatively rough, medical experience, and these folk medicine experience to a large extent is in the process of the ancestors' long struggle against diseases, after a wide range of "trial and error" discovered. 
 
        Thousands of years ago, the shining stars full of awning, lush plants, mountains, deep and animals and birds and human coexistence of copolymerization. The ancients through alternating of nature, the growth of all things the decline and fall, hope that can be found in the heaven and earth to run our own law of development and changes. So Chinese emphasize conform to nature, of simple control, machine round the living, inflexible is dead, fell from the Lord. Just for the cause of cognitive, TCM is a wise to exploring the mystery of the life. 
 
        Now, however, more and more folk remedies are disappearing. 
 
        Many well-known Chinese herbal medicine in the rural areas before haven't seen, modern people see in the older generation of simple efficacy of folk prescription, of rational utilization and protection, coupled with later generations is not willing to learn, always have the risk of lost. (according to qilu weekly)