Mid-Autumn festival moon busy dao medicine 
 
 
Sun Lingzhi The Chinese academy of sciences institute of Chinese medical history literature of traditional Chinese medicine 
 
 
China's traditional Chinese medicine to 

        "The sun moon" are often used to describe the time, because the ancient legends between Japan and China have a three-legged bird, therefore calls the sun as the sun, the legend of months have yutu, therefore calls the moon for the moon. The sun moon is the ancients to the "sun", "moon" imagination. Found a seat in 1968, jiangsu danyang anonymous tomb, the tomb of the two pieces of brick respectively represent the sun and the moon, the moon there is a tree in the brick, under the tree there was a pounding medicine yutu. 
 
        Coincides with the Mid-Autumn full moon homesickness, not curious month story, although now we all know that the moon like the earth is slowly rotating stones in the universe, but in the ancient people there, the moon like human aside, imprisoned for chang 'e and wu gang, well, the goddess of the moon accompanied by little rabbit, cut cassia Wu Gangyou task, also not much ado about nothing. 
 
        Dao medicine yutu 
 
        Yutu story about the middle of the month, some scholars studied the han dynasty stone on the month rabbit, thinks that the late western han dynasty toad and later became the representative of the moon rabbit, and until mid - of the eastern han dynasty, the moon is the rabbit in the running state. Dao medicine yutu, early belongs to the queen and the fairy world. In the late eastern han dynasty at the latest, on behalf of the fairy world of dao medicine yutu confused with the rush of the moon rabbit, has later months namely dao medicine yutu said. To this day, month rabbit pound medicine image, has become an important memory of Chinese national culture. Museum of Chinese history with northern song dynasty period, shandong jinan Liu Guzhen bronze, Liu Guzhen shop for manufacturing steel industry, the bronze saying "confess in front of the white rabbit to record", is so far discovered in China first printing and packaging. Engraving of the most prominent needle shop products "needle", in the picture is the iron pestle of rabbit son embrace, it is low head, grinding endlessly - "iron rod grinding needle," iron pestle and the link between the pin and so agreed, shaped Liu Guzhen shop brand glamour, still have immortal charm through hundreds of years time, reach the audience heart. 
 
        The rabbit into China 
 
        Yutu dao medicine, grinding is itself. The datang western regions "(seven years: in the forest, lived a fox, rabbits and monkeys three good friends. God want to test the yogi, and as the old man came into the forest. To treat the man, they are separately set out to find food, the fox is looking for carp, monkeys picked fruit, only little rabbit empty-handed. The small rabbit say: "please help me to find some firewood, I can prepare food." Collected by a lot of vegetation in a short time, the fox and the monkey gave birth to a fire, the rabbit said: "respect for the old man ah, I mean size to find food, so we have to use my body to act as a meal you!" Say that finish, the rabbit jumped into the fire. Old man again to day emperor, said to the fox and the monkey: "concept the rabbit heart, to make it did not come to this world, I put it on the moon, let know its story from generation to generation." This is rabbit legends of the tang dynasty, Chinese Buddhism to India after joining middle-earth emotion, knead for Chinese rabbits into legend. 
 
        With rabbit treatment in TCM 
 
        Ancient Chinese medicine with rabbit brain produce, treat frostbite; To treat dizziness; with rabbit liver, With rabbit urinary pain Zhai, malnutrition, to float ". Rabbit manure is also called "hare dung," to go "bright eye, solution of poison, attending", hemorrhoids, malnutrition product such as, small rabbit also eat excrement, itis behavior is closely related to the feeding time. Today our animal experiments, also use the little rabbit, may say, whether it be a legend story, or reality, historically, tens of thousands of rabbits his precious life for human health. 
 
        I Often wonder, "moon dao medicine" in dao what medicine, some people say that is eating the medicine could become immortal, but compared it with human companionship in history, "with" this is the best medicine, perhaps this is the meaning of the Mid-Autumn festival, the "company" in her family home, eat the reunion moon cakes, enjoy happiness, and distant moon left her husband of the goddess of the moon are not alone, she has a moon, like the famous American doctors trudeau (E.L.T rudean) the doctor's epitaph: "To Cure Sometimes, To Relieve,, To Comfort Always" (Sometimes To Cure, Often To help, Always To Comfort), the meaning of Comfort Sometimes greater than drugs. For the family, every moment of reunion is a real pleasure.
 
 
 
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