Miao nationality is one of the largest and oldest ethnic minorities in China, and its population ranks the 4th in China. They mainly live in guizhou, hunan, hubei, sichuan, guangxi, hainan, yunnan and other places. Miao medicine originated from the long production and living practice of miao people with a long history. Among them, the miao people's witch doctors, medical skills and miao people's strange medical technology, as well as the dreaded "see blood to seal throat" poison, are an indispensable part of its development process.
The ancestors of the miao nationality have created their own medicine in the long-term practice. In the villages of the miao nationality and in the ancient songs of the miao nationality, such a popular song goes like this: "one thousand years of miao medicine, ten thousand years of miao medicine", "one king of medicine, in the four directions, three thousand miao medicine, eight hundred prescriptions". Miao people in southeast guizhou province divide medicines into cold medicines and hot medicines. They think that sweet medicines, hemp medicines, fragrant medicines and spicy medicines belong to hot medicines, which are used to treat cold diseases and attribute to cold meridians. Acid, bitter, astringent belong to cold medicine, used to treat fever, to heat. Miao doctors in western hunan believed that medicine has the functions of stopping, reinforcing, toning and dispersing, and summarized the drug laws of "treating cold with heat", "treating heat with cold", "treating closure with tongzhi" and so on. The characteristics of miao medicine, to a single side more, less compound. One disease for every one.
Miao doctor summed up a lot of formula, such as "climb not slope, can not be separated from the short tuotuo", "can not be broken, can not be separated from the inverted umbrella", "play a broken, can not be separated from four tiles", "play a smashed, can not be separated from the four leaves", "want a loose, can not be separated from the wood", "the body is numb, can not be separated from the disorderly hair" and so on. Another characteristic of miao medicine is its extraordinary efficacy and rapid curative effect. For example, xiangxi miao medical department is particularly famous for its traumatology techniques, such as "knife wound and bullet wound, the pain cannot be supported, once the medicine is applied, the blood pain stops immediately, the swelling gradually subsides, and the swelling is healed in a few days". After dressing for a serious gunshot wound, not only muscle is created, but the bullet is discharged. Xiong xiling, the prime minister of beiyang, once praised the result, saying, "the bullet withdraws from itself only as the result of miao healer hua tuo gong." Because of the remarkable effect of miao's medical treatment, marshal he long instructed his troops to "mobilize the miao medical division to march forward with the army" many times during the agrarian revolutionary struggle in the border areas of hunan, hubei and guizhou.
In the history of miao medicine, there was a long period of time when the characteristics of "the combination of witch doctors" existed. At this time, the treatment of diseases by witch doctors is not an isolated phenomenon, but a historical phenomenon. Wizards were a division of labor in the early miao society, and they were the earliest intellectuals of the miao people. As a result of the accumulation of medical experience, a number of wizards have mastered some medical techniques, practicing witchcraft while using herbs and other methods to cure diseases. Later, with the decline of witch doctors' social status, some of them split into professional miao doctors. Due to the occurrence of many diseases can not explain, the development of critical illness can not understand, had to resort to ghosts and gods and sorcery "cooperation", that is, mutual use and mutual confrontation, the formation of a "witch doctor, magic medicine two solution" situation. According to the survey statistics of 10 counties in southeast guizhou province, the phenomenon of the combination of witchcraft and medicine still exists in some local areas
Miao medicine has a long history and distinct characteristics. They have created their own traditional medicine with their own creative spirit and form of national culture, becoming an important part of all ethnic medicine in China. Meanwhile, due to the remarkable efficacy of miao medicine, great progress has been made in the development of miao medicine in guizhou in recent years. With the in-depth research on miao medicine, it is believed that miao medicine will make greater contributions to human health in the near future.
