本文摘自《中医史》，作者李经纬，海南出版社2015年5月出版

Why do Chinese traditional medicine store all hang a gourd

The 2015-07-21 08:32:23 source: People's Daily - the history channel: size: medium

This article from the medicine, the author jing-wei li, hainan press in May 2015

Practise medicine in the jubilee. Medicine bottle gourd, is almost everybody, is refers to the charge of the gourd. Originally is the fruit of cucurbitaceae plants, a spindle, a round, and so on. In ancient times, the doctor how to hoist the drug carries, thought that a sign of selling medicine, practicing medicine or suspension before its clinic medicine bottle gourd, also thought that a sign of clinical disease place. Gourd shape is like a pot, or with a pot of gm. So, in the ancient doctors in practice, also called "practise medicine", or the celebration or the home of friends and relatives ill phase, called it "the jubilee of practise medicine". What, then, with the pot, what is the relationship between cost the eldest branch, this particular name come from?

About in our country during the eastern han dynasty (25-188), Chinese medicine, medicine industry has not yet been separated, a doctor's medication is also the more homemade for private use, essential medicine cabinet, doctors' offices or a patient and his family, please go to pick, after the doctor decided to use again. If the doctor in the city or countryside tour, carry their own treatment, were small pharmacy flow. Or charge to gourd, or for homemade sewn many small pockets in the wallet, respectively with the homemade medicinal materials and medicines. So, in the han and tang dynasties period, in order to sell for the characteristics of medicine doctors practicing medicine is more prevalent. After the song, medicine, medicine has increasingly become the subject of medicine development counter-measures.

"Were, the eldest branch", "cost is the eldest branch, RuNa people also. We worked for city. The city in the old man sell drugs, hung a pot of the head, and the city, which needs and dived into the jug. The city people's opinion, only the eldest branch to the upstairs to see, how, again due to worship, serve wine preserved. Weng know the eldest branch of their god, who said: the child can come tomorrow. The eldest branch denier day after notions of weng, weng is and into the pot."

Weng is the pot of the male. Charge the eldest branch with weng into the mountains, learn to weng, "hence can all medical disease, lash a ghost". After "lost its operator for the ghost killed by". Story is full of myth, but its "practise medicine" allusions, then, famed for the people in imperial physician with and respect for doctors to practice medicine ask call centers.

Han Kang selling drugs, it's one price for all. Were · Han Kang records: "Han Kang, the word" Hugh, JingZhao they lived, herb gathering famous mountains, often sell chang-an yu city, herbal, more than 30 years. There are women buy medicine from kang, kang keep price. Women's anger yue: male is Han Boxiu yeah? But it's one price for all? Kang TanYue: I intended to avoid name, this little girl I have all known, medication for? Is the power they lived in the mountains." Han Kang is a hermit and knows medicine, fuel famous mountains generic people caring for a living, any society, is the famous artists of the noble medical ethics when ji, Dr Bus) is not. The story about his anonymity, resolutely refused to fame and wealth, famed for later generations. According to the load: "emperor (147-167) is a case of xuan, with Ann car hire. Angel in a letter to the kang, kang have to is a promise." Dealership to kiosks, however, TingChang don't know, miss kang diesel cars ox, thought Han Kang Bridges, the incident "angel to play kill TingChang, kang yue:" this since Lao tze, with TingChang sin. 'and even. Because the tathagata escape, to outlast ".

Han Kang, as mining, home-made famous mountains generic (Chinese), since the selling chang-an yu city (now xi 'an), service for patients, only to income is necessary to maintain life, not for profit, strict self-discipline, said it's one price for all, become a historic famous doctor. One thousand ways at the same time, he refused to serve emperor regime as, quality was not swayed by fame and wealth, is respect.