In the Tibetan area of China, there is a book comparable in content and value to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", which is included in China's classic works of materia medica and included in history and pharmacy textbooks, do you understand?
The classic work of Tibetan medicine and materia medica, "Jingzhu Materia Medica", was written by the Qing Dynasty Tibetan medicine scholar Dimar Tenzin Phuntsok, and is known as a masterpiece of Tibetan medicine and physics.
Born into a family of doctors
The collection of Tibetan medicine records
Born into a family of medical scholars, Timar Tenzin Phuntsok began to study medical works and the Ten Enlightenments in front of many scholars from the age of 8, and obtained a Geshe degree at a young age, gaining fame in Tibet. However, due to his fame, he was jealous of the local gentry, and it was difficult for him to gain a foothold in his hometown, so he traveled to Tibet, and it was because of his departure that he completely rewrote the history of Tibetan medicine.
In the past 20 years, Tenzin Phuntsok has traveled through mountains and rivers, traveled all over the mountains and mountains of the eastern part of China, the southeast of Qinghai, and the western part of Sichuan, and researched more than 130 works on Tibetan medicine. In 1743, he completed the Jingzhu Materia Medica, an important work comparable to the Compendium of Materia Medica, which is the culmination of Tibetan medicine and materia medica.
In the books of Tibetan medicine in the past dynasties
The classic book with the largest number of drugs
"Jingzhu Materia Medica" contains a total of 2,294 kinds of drugs, excluding the duplicated ones, there are actually 1,220 kinds, 423 kinds more than the drugs included in Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica". The taste, usage, collection and processing methods of 13 categories and thousands of drugs collected in the field, as well as the classification, morphology, aliases, origin, and growth environment of each animal, plant and mineral were recorded in detail.
Although the "Diagnosis of the Moon King" and the "Four Medical Codex", which are also famous works of Tibetan medicine, theoretically put forward the six flavors, eight natures, and seventeen effects, they are not reflected in specific medicines. Each drug in "Jingzhu Materia Medica" describes the taste, sex, efficacy and precautions for its use, which adds specific content to pharmacology and points out the truth of medication for those who study pharmacology.
The classification of drugs in the book is close to the classification methods of modern science, and still has important reference value in the classification of plant taxonomy, zoology and natural medicine.
The greatest significance of this book is that it fills the gap in the division of the sexual taste and efficacy of drugs in Tibetan medicine, so that the medicine has flesh and blood, and is no longer just an empty name. As a result, in the following two hundred years, just like the "Compendium of Materia Medica", "Jingzhu Materia Medica" became an essential book for Tibetan medicine to prescribe medicines. To this day, 75% of the drugs described in the book are still widely used in clinical practice.
As the culmination of Tibetan medicine records, more than 30% of the medicines included in Jingzhu Materia Medica are the main or endemic species of the Tibetan plateau, such as Rhodiola rosea, black wolfberry, barley, cordyceps sinensis, etc. The medicinal effects of these plants have been confirmed in modern pharmacology and clinical research. This not only fills the library of traditional Chinese medicine in China, but also plays a significant role in the study of Tibetan botany by scientific researchers.