Yi medicine -Qi Su's past
Li Shaofeng. In the face of the ancient Bimo books scattered among the people, where to start with Yi medicine and Yi medicine?Let's start 65 years ago!
After the establishment of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture on April 15, 1958, the premier decided on the strategic policy of "governing the country must first control the water". After the design plan was preliminarily determined, in early 1959, more than 5,000 migrant workers from Chuxiong, Shuangbai, Muding, Dayao, Yao'an, Nanhua and some of the original construction workers in the Lufeng Shimenzha Reservoir and Shimenchong Hydropower Station began to build sheds, excavate diversion ditches, and build roads from Waist Station Street to the reservoir.
My grandfather Li Zhenglin and Tao Bixian responded to the call of ** and incorporated the construction of the highway from Waist Station Street to Shimenzha Reservoir. My grandfather Li Zhenglin (from Shuangbai County, Chuxiong) has been a generation of Feng Shui Mr. and the Bi Mo family;Worker Tao Bixian (formerly from Yanfeng County, Chuxiong, now changed to Dayao County) has been practicing medicine for generations. Tao Bixian followed his grandfather Tao Jizong to study orthopedics and traumatology Xi his early years. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Tao Jizong's "little black ointment" not only sold well in Sanyao, but also in Kunming, Sichuan Huili and other regions, and was very popular with patients with bone injuries. Here they became co-workers, laying the groundwork for the future contribution of Yi medicine and Yi medicine industry.
In May 1958, the Second Session of the Eighth National Congress of the Communist Party of China adopted the general line of "building socialism with all enthusiasm, striving for the upper reaches, and building socialism as quickly and efficiently as possible". At that time, water conservancy projects at and above the county level were all modeled after the military system, and the company was the most basic unit, usually composed of cadres and engineers leading the team, and a company had dozens of migrant workers.
At that time, all relied on manual manpower, without any machinery, from the beginning with hoes, shovels, bamboo baskets, and shoulders, to later there were wooden wheeled vehicles, and then changed to tricycles. The work of the road diggers is very hard, they have to do more than ten hours of work every day, and sometimes they have to work day and night in order to catch up with the progress. At night, the construction is illuminated by a self-contained horse lamp (kerosene lamp with a hood). Spraining a sprain due to accidentally stepping on a void or being unbalanced at work is something that often happens.
My grandfather accidentally sprained his waist when carrying stones, and in that era, he couldn't suffer when his sprained foot flashed his waist, and he couldn't do heavy work to be hungry, but fortunately he was treated by Tao Bixian in time, and my grandfather was quickly cured. Later, I learned that my grandfather was a Bi Mo, and he was transferred here by the production team because of his poor family composition, and the same is true for Tao Bixian, who was classified as a landlord family by the production team before. In a given historical context, Bimo and the doctor were not welcomed, so they formed a deep friendship, communicated naturally, and began to explore and share their common hobbies.
Tao Bixian was born in a wealthy family in his early years, and after liberation, the family gradually declined, and he got gout during the road construction, which was still more serious. I couldn't walk on the ground, I could only use some of the painkillers I usually collected to control my condition, and I was missing a few main medicines, and after my grandfather knew about it, he helped find them from the mountains overnight, and there were some more leaves, which were dried and divided into seven packs and given to Tao Bixian. And explained that Mr. Tao added this leaf to eat together to double the curative effect, at that time Tao Bixian questioned, can it still enhance the effect?I have had white tiger wind (gout) for many years, [because there was no definition of gout at that time] In the era of economic hardship, the average poor person would not get this disease. My grandfather had a bad family composition, and some things he couldn't say directly. Just said to the old gentleman, you go and try it, this is a strange book. It will definitely be able to cure the disease!Mr. Tao was convinced of the small seven-bag of leaves in one hand and two fingers. But it was with these seven packets of leaf tea that really cured Tao Bixian's gout, and he never had it again, and he told him about the leaf formula when he was separated.
In May 1966, "* ten years of civil strife began, in the turbulent years, the impact of cultural chaos and the struggle of internal contradictions in the country, my grandfather was the object of defeat, Bimo culture was seriously destroyed, a large number of Bimo scriptures were burned, precious Bimo magic weapons were confiscated and abandoned, and the Bimo who enjoyed a high status and knowledge were criticized and insulted, and were criticized and paraded again and again by wearing high hats, not only my grandfather himself was repeatedly tortured, but also his family was subjected to various discrimination and unfair treatment. Whenever my father mentioned this difficult time, he talked about Mr. Tao Bixian, who had a deep friendship with my grandfather in Lufeng to build a highway. I am full of gratitude to Mr. Tao Bixian, who helped my grandfather many times when he was hungry and cold, and he taught us more than once to remember those who helped our family, and that the descendants of the Li family should not be ungrateful at any time. On December 18, 1978, the Third Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China completely put things in order, and my grandfather was reborn. My father took over the Bimo ritual weapon from my grandfather, and he knew that Bimo culture played an important guiding role in the life and production of the Yi people, and it was an indispensable spiritual pillar, and it had different social functions in different fields of Yi society.
The time soon came one day in August 2023, and under the leadership of the director of the Shuangbai County Health Bureau, a group of people came to my studio. Unexpectedly, one of the polite gentlemen is Tao Bixian's grandson Tao Yunbin, who really fulfilled the sentence "There is no accident in life, everything is destined".
Mr. Tao Yunbin developed [Chamujing Sour Qing] Forget Worries Herbal Tea, brewed with boiling water, slightly astringent and sour, sweet and sweet, has a miraculous effect on gout, and lowers uric acid in three hours. The Book of Qi Su, which was written in the 45th year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1566), is also known as the Book of Yi Medicine or the Book of Yi Medicine of the Ming Dynasty, which was written 12 years earlier than Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. Tao Yunbin family has practiced medicine for generations, and has made continuous efforts to bring forth the new, so that ethnic folk medicine has achieved unique curative effects in the process of many common diseases, frequent diseases and some incurable diseases, passed down from generation to generation, after long-term practice, relying on the rich local natural resources, accumulating effective drug experience, and gradually forming Yi medicine with its own national characteristics.
Finally, he also said that the development of new ethnic medicines, enrich China's excellent Yi medicine treasure house, and train a large number of ethnic medicine experts and scholars. Let Yi medicine go out of Chuxiong Prefecture and go to the world, which is his lifelong goal.
About author:Li Shaofeng, from Ditu Village, Damaidi Town, Shuangbai County, is a member of the Shuangbai County Yi Society, a member of the Shuangbai County Yi Cham Culture Research Association, a member of the Zhou Yi Society, and a member of the Shuangbai County Bimo Association.