The medical culture of the Yao people. What is mysterious about the medical culture of the Yao people?

The Yao people live in the mountainous areas of southern my country and have a long history and rich culture. In long-term production and labor practice, the Yao people have accumulated rich experience in using herbal medicine to prevent and treat diseases, and have formed unique Yao medical treatment methods. With the passage of time, the ancient and magical Yao medicine has become a wonder in my country's national medicine. At the same time, for thousands of years, folk Yao medicine and Yao medicine have also cast a mysterious veil on the world because of their distinctive diagnosis and treatment methods and unique curative effects.

Historically, the Yao people did not have their own written language. The transmission of Yao medicine relied entirely on oral transmission, the transmission of medicines, and the transmission of classics by referring to symptoms, forming a self-contained system within the nation. Yao medicine believes that the internal organs of the human body, as well as the internal organs of the human body and the external environment, are both antagonistic and unified, thereby maintaining a relative balance of profits and losses and normal physiological activities. When this dynamic balance of profit and loss is destroyed due to external or internal reasons and cannot be fully restored by self-regulation, disease will occur in the human body. The cause of disease is the destruction of the relative balance of profit and loss in the human body. The causes of the disease can be multifaceted, such as abnormal climate, miasma and epidemic poisons, poisonous wind and phlegm, mental disorders, dietary fatigue, innate endowment, trauma from insects and animals, etc., which can all lead to the occurrence of the disease. In addition, the pathological products produced during the pathogenesis of certain diseases, such as Sha, tuberculosis, phlegm, etc., in turn act on the body and become secondary causes.

In terms of diagnostic methods, Yao medicine uses inspection, smelling, questioning and external palpation. Commonly used methods include nail diagnosis, palm diagnosis, tongue diagnosis, ear diagnosis, nose diagnosis, visual diagnosis, facial diagnosis and observation. The quality, color and smell of the patient's urine and stool can be used to identify the disease. In terms of treatment methods, Yao medicine not only uses acupuncture, needle picking, bone moxibustion, egg moxibustion, anesthetic moxibustion, moxibustion, cupping, massage, scraping and other methods, but also uses Yao medicine’s unique grinding medicine therapy and fir acupuncture. Therapy, fire therapy, oil lamp therapy, fire therapy, etc. are used to treat some difficult and miscellaneous diseases, and often achieve satisfactory results.

"Fengda Drug Classification Theory" is an important part of Yao medicine theory. "Wind" means weak and soft; "beat" means hard and strong. "Wind medicine" has the effect of soothing and regulating the functions of the internal organs, while "drug medicine" has quick effect and has the effect of expelling evil spirits. "Fengda" reflects the efficacy and characteristics of medicines and is also the basis for Yao medicine's clinical use.

Yao medicine is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Yao people’s long-term struggle against diseases. It not only has a long history and rich treatment experience, but also has a unique national cultural style. At the same time, Yao medicine also enjoys a high reputation among the Yao people because of its low price and accurate efficacy. As an important aspect of national culture and an important component of traditional medicine of the motherland, Yao medicine is continuing to make immeasurable contributions to the health of people of all ethnic groups.