[Explanation] The reporter learned from Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine on May 18 that after nearly 10 years of research, the medical book "Tianhui Medical Slip" recorded by Sima Qian's "Records of the Grand Historian Bian Que Cang Gong Biography" will be Published this year, the 106 lost medical prescriptions recorded in the book will be available again after a lapse of more than 2,000 years.
It is understood that from July 2012 to August 2013, Chinese archaeologists carried out rescue archaeological excavations in a Western Han Dynasty cemetery located in Tianhui Town, Jinniu District, Chengdu, and cleaned up four tombs of the Western Han Dynasty Emperor Jing and Emperor Wu. .
Among them, Tomb No. 3 unearthed nearly 1,000 medical slips and an exquisite wooden figure of meridians, medicines and pharmaceutical utensils. This is the archaeological discovery with the largest number of medical slips unearthed in China so far.
Combined with the content of the unearthed bamboo slips and medical books on the pre-Qin and Han dynasties, these medical books are related to Cang Gong and the Bian Que medical books from the academic origin.
Liu Changhua, director of the Institute of Chinese Unearthed Medical Documents and Cultural Relics at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that after sorting, editing, and interpretation, researchers compiled more than 960 bamboo slips and interpreted more than 25,000 characters.
In addition to 106 lost medical prescriptions, "Tianhui Medical Slips" also records almost lost Chinese medicine treatment methods for equine disease, which will have an important impact on Chinese medicine research.
[Concurrent] Liu Changhua, Director of the Institute of Chinese Unearthed Medical Documents and Cultural Relics, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
More than 100 diseases, these ("Tianhui Medical Slip") medical prescriptions are included.
These recipes have been accumulated, accumulated, and condensed over the years. They are effective and very good recipes.
Chinese medicine's understanding of life and disease comes from people's understanding of nature, and these prescriptions for curing diseases created by such understanding in 2000 and 3000 years are not outdated.
[Explanation] In order to better study the "Tianhui Medical Slips", Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chengdu Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology signed a cooperation agreement on the same day.
Through close cooperation in four aspects: academic research, platform construction, team building, and talent training, cultivate a group of first-class professional and technical personnel in the fields of medical science and technology archaeology research, medical cultural relics protection, and traditional Chinese medicine museums, and promote the integration of traditional Chinese medicine and archaeology research. develop.
[Concurrent] Liu Changhua, Director of the Institute of Chinese Unearthed Medical Documents and Cultural Relics, Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Because what ("Tianhui Medical Slips") shows us is more traditional, more ancient, more primitive, such documents.
We further carry out research on medical documents and cultural relics, we carry out the dissemination of traditional Chinese medicine culture, jointly build a museum, and cultivate talents together, which can stimulate our love for the country and the nation.
[Explanation] The exhibition of documents related to "Tianhui Medical Slips" attracted many students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine to visit the exhibition. The cultural and creative products and interactive activities of medical briefs outside the exhibition area deepened the students' love for traditional Chinese medicine.
Some students said that through viewing the exhibition, he had a better understanding of the breadth and depth of traditional Chinese medicine, and inspired him to study hard and inherit the culture of traditional Chinese medicine.
[Concurrent] Li Kunyang, a student of Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Through the visit of the bamboo slips ("Tianhui Medical Slips"), we can see the history and culture of our traditional Chinese medicine. It is not a "rootless tree". It has a profound origin and an academic foundation, so it is said that the development of traditional Chinese medicine today Under the premise of culture, as a student of the University of Chinese Medicine, we should have sufficient self-confidence to do a good job in the inheritance of Chinese medicine.
Reported by reporter Lv Yang in Chengdu
Responsible editor: [Fang Jialiang]