She Medicine
By admin on 2014-12-30

During the long-time struggle with illnesses, the She Nationality summarized their experience in preventing and curing diseases by utilizing medical methods suitable to the social environment, geological and climatic features and habits in production and life, and gradually developed their She medicine full of national characteristic, which has the same origin with the traditional Chinese medicine.

The She Nationality has been living in mountainous areas throughout history. It features scattered villages, scarce population and inconvenient traffic. Under the specific historical conditions and geographic environment, each household always prepares some herbal drugs at home for immediate use or as gifts for each other. Many of the folks also get to know some skills to prevent or cure diseases, some of whom thus become folk doctors. The self-picked herbal drugs are mostly adopted by She doctors, or accompanied by therapies such as acupuncture, cupping and scraping, which can often achieve good effect.

The medicine theory of She Nationality has a profound relationship with TCM. During the long-time minority migration, the She people have absorbed the essence of the medicinal theories owned by other minorities such as Miao, Yao and Zhuang. They have not only developed their own medicinal culture, but also the characteristic theoretical system of She medicine.