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classic "Four Medical Classics", describing the characteristics of pregnancy
physiology, pathology and embryology, the form of a map, vividly depicting the
shape of the weeks of embryonic development, which is very close to modern
medicine about embryology.
Tibetan medicine has distinctive characteristics for applying medicine,
selected little-known minerals and precious animal drugs, as well as growth in the
alpine Tibetan natural herbal medicines, and having a unique preparation process
and extraction methods, which makes Tibetan medicine treatment of bone fractures,
bruises, injured, high blood pressure, heart disease, gastroenteritis, rheumatoid
arthritis, stroke and other diseases have a significant effect. Dumaer· Danzeng, a
very famous Tibetan medicine scholar in Diqing, Yunnan province, written “Jin Zhu
Ben Cao”. The book is Tibetan herb’ classic work, detailed the medication way and
distinctness, so it’s regarded as Tibetan’s "Compendium of Materia Medica"

YI MEDINCINE
Yi people, Yunnan's most widely distributed and most populous nation, with
502.8 million, accounting for 10.94 percent of Yunnan's total population, are mainly
distributed in Yunnan Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Honghe Hani and Yi
Autonomous Prefecture and other places. Yi has a long history and splendid national
culture, the world famous "October solar calendar, the calendar created by Yi
people, so Yi people have been known as the" sun nation.
Yi medicine has a long history, since ancient times, a proverb going as “Yi
medicine has more than thousand and even 10 thousand years”. Yi medicine is
based such core and specialty medicine as theory, “Qi -blood theory” and
“pneumatic theory”.
Lucid and turbid refers to the “yin and yang”, lucid air belonging to yang and
turbid belonging to yin, the two, fundamental of all things. Yi Medicine clarifies the
formation and activities of life by the two elements, and they feed (yin and yang) to
illustrate the material basis of the activities of life changes.
QI and blood are essential for life, the basic material to maintain life activities.
Organs gasification water generation and six gases delivered to the facial features
orifices, interior and exterior, up and down, four limbs and bones, to play the role of
nourishing. The blood and qi can be transformed mutually.
The gas line is a human lucid and turbid movements, blood circulation
channel and path, and it is coherent organs to accessibility features orifices, interior
and exterior, up and down, a total of six lucid and turbid path. According to Yi
Medical ancient records, contact the clear air three pathways the chest, abdominal
visceral organization; an aggregate of three pathways connecting with the
organization of the muscular form, through the line of the body front and one week,
and each other through three pathways with clear air. Clear three-way and three
muddy paths inside and outside the human body above and below the organic
integration, so that the human body to form a whole.
Yi medicine is expert in using animal, the medication involving bark, hair,
bone, horn, tendon, blood and organ, occupying 92.8% in Yi medicine classics. Yi
medicine using animal drugs and forming its own unique drug characteristics: First,
cold to cold treatment, such as the treatment of spleen and stomach, not uses antler,
tripe, etc. Warming drugs, with the bitter cold sheep bile, this cold governance cold is
different from the traditional Chinese medicine "Treatise on Febrile Diseases "
Baitong plus pig bile soup, but also rebellious in the "cold heat" rule of Dafa; meat
product with meat rule, Yi cures meat stagnation, in addition to use herbal medicine,