Museum of traditional Chinese medicine, Beijing University of traditional Chinese Medicine

The Museum of traditional Chinese medicine of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine (also known as "Shaw Science Museum") was founded in 1990, with a total construction area of 3160 square meters and a total exhibition area of 1500 square meters. The museum is located on the third and fourth floors of the Shaw Science Museum. The third floor is a comprehensive exhibition hall of traditional Chinese medicine, displaying a large number of precious Chinese medicinal materials such as mabao, musk and Ganoderma lucidum. The fourth floor is the exhibition hall of Chinese medical history.

Museum of traditional Chinese medicine, Beijing University of traditional Chinese Medicine

The Museum of traditional Chinese medicine of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine was built in September 1990. It is located in the Yifu Science Museum of Beijing University of traditional Chinese medicine. The museum is divided into two parts: the comprehensive exhibition hall of traditional Chinese medicine (Department of traditional Chinese Medicine) and the exhibition hall of Chinese medical history (Department of medical history), with a total exhibition area of about 1500 square meters.

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Beijing University of Chinese Medicine Museum of traditional Chinese Medicine Museum 1500 square meters of Chinese Medicine Specimen Exhibition Hall converging the essence of Chinese medicine, from medicinal plant specimens to Chinese medicine pieces, from the medicinal material to the pill scattered medicine, so that visitors are dizzying. Walking in the exhibition hall of Chinese medical history, you will feel its magnificence and profundity. Perhaps the painting of Bian que practicing medicine on the stone relief of Han Dynasty has the color of legend, while the statues of famous doctors in past dynasties symbolize the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine. As for those sand table models, bronze people imitating Song Dynasty acupuncture, bronze surgical instruments of traditional Chinese medicine, and medical instruments of ethnic minorities. In addition, the medical books published in the Ming Dynasty have proved the great significance of traditional Chinese medicine to the survival and rise of this nation. Standing in the spacious hall of the museum, you will unconsciously integrate into the huge traditional Chinese painting "autumn scenery of Yanshan Mountain", listen to how to feel the pulse during the treatment of herbal medicine in Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, visit Dong Feng who has a rest in the fruitful apricot forest, feel the persistence and hardship of Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing, Sun Simiao and Li Shizhen, and grasp the profound ideas beyond the scientific definition of compendium of Materia Medica. When you walk out of the sea of treasures, you may already know that a brand-new Museum of traditional Chinese medicine has been built with the help of network technology. No matter where you are in the world, you can move the mouse and click the keyboard to get the data of the museum's collection, display and education functions, so that more people can enjoy and study the cultural relics of ancient Chinese medicine It helps. The museum people have integrated the science of traditional Chinese medicine into the new sunshine of the 21st century, and let the brilliance travel all over the world.

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Exhibition hall of Chinese medical history

The exhibition area is 800 square meters. The exhibition contents are mainly medical relics of past dynasties, and the development process of traditional Chinese medicine is reproduced by means of words, pictures, charts and models. The exhibition is divided into 10 parts: the origin of medicine, early medicine and health, and the foundation of medical theoretical system. More than 1000 pieces of medical relics, statues, models, paintings, rubbings, photos, medical appliances and ancient medical books have been exhibited. There are more than 930 pieces of medical history relics, more than 200 kinds of ancient thread bound medical books, and more than 6000 volumes of traditional Chinese medicine books and periodicals. Among them, there are pictures of bianque practicing medicine (Han Dynasty stone reliefs), statues of famous doctors, sand table models, bronze figures imitating Guangxu's acupuncture and moxibustion in Qing Dynasty, bronze surgical tools of traditional Chinese medicine, medical tools of ethnic minorities, medical books of Ming Dynasty, etc. The main purpose of the exhibition hall is teaching. Every year, students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine are regularly arranged to have classes in the exhibition hall, and teachers are selected by the museum to explain on site. Chinese and English versions of films, videos, slides and other TCM reference books are available for audience and visitors.

Traditional Chinese medicine exhibition hall

Formerly known as the "herbarium of traditional Chinese medicine", mainly for the school teaching services. With an exhibition area of 1500 square meters, the exhibition is divided into five parts: comprehensive exhibition hall of traditional Chinese medicine, herbarium of medicinal plants, herbarium of traditional Chinese medicine, exhibition room of Chinese herbal pieces and patent medicines, and display window of medicinal animals. More than 600 kinds of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine are displayed, more than 3000 kinds of medicinal plants (12000 copies), 2500 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine specimens and more than 2000 kinds of Chinese herbal pieces are collected. There are more than 1000 kinds of Chinese patent medicines, nearly 200 kinds of peeled and soaked specimens of medicinal animals and hundreds of color photos of medicinal plants.

Collection

Musk legend

Musk is actually the dry secretion from the sachets of male deer animals. When you come to a display cabinet, you find the well-known musk, but it looks like persimmon cakes on the street. "This is musk. It is a dry secretion from the mature male sachet of deer family animals. It is a very precious Chinese herbal medicine. It has the functions of opening orifices, clearing away filth, dredging collaterals and dispersing blood stasis." According to teacher Lu, there is a beautiful legend about the origin of musk. It is said that a long time ago, there was a father and son with the surname of Tang, who lived in the mountains and made a living hunting. One day, father and son were shooting in the deep mountains and forests. In order to catch a pheasant, his son accidentally fell into a mountain stream. When the old man ran to the mountain stream, he saw his son lying on the ground and couldn't move. Mountain breeze bursts, blowing continuously strange fragrance, refreshing. The old man wanted to carry his son, but he saw that his son was greedily sucking the strange aroma, and the pain seemed to be gradually dispersed. Looking for the fragrance, Tang Laohan saw a barren land not far away, from which the fragrance came. The old man picked up the soil and found a sachet the size of an egg with fine hair. Old Tang took it out carefully and put it into his son's pocket to take home. Soon his son's wound healed. Later, every time he met the poor people with injuries, he used musk to treat them. In fact, the sachet the old man got was a kind of animal called musk deer. The male abdomen was filled with secretions. Later, people called this kind of sachet "Musk".

Ganoderma lucidum

Ganoderma lucidum is actually a kind of fungus. It has a history of more than 2000 years. The precious Chinese medicinal materials in the exhibition hall are really dazzling. The names of "Tianshan snow lotus", "Millennium wild ginseng" and "Ganoderma lucidum grass" often appear in martial arts novels. Now we can see the real objects, which is really eye opening. Among them, the most unforgettable is the variety of Ganoderma lucidum in the display cabinet. There are not only bitter white hooves and tree tongues as big as a washbasin, but also Coriolus versicolor, frail and lovely Phellinus igniarius, and purple Ganoderma. All of them are precious and rare Chinese herbal medicines, and they are listed as the top grade in Shennong materia medica like musk. It is different from the general drugs for the treatment of certain diseases, and also different from the general nutrition and health food, which only supplements and strengthens the deficiency of nutrients in one aspect. On the whole, it regulates the balance of human body function in two ways, mobilizes the internal vitality of the body, regulates the new metabolism of the human body, improves the autoimmune ability, and promotes the normalization of all visceral or organ functions Cancer also helps. But wild Ganoderma lucidum is very rare now, and the medical effect of artificial cultivation is very limited. In fact, Ganoderma lucidum has always been regarded as a "magic medicine" in China. In many fairy tales, Ganoderma lucidum often plays the role of "bringing the dead back to life". In the legend of the White Snake, which is well known to women and children, there is a story about the white lady who has gone through many hardships to steal Ganoderma lucidum to save Xu Xian.

Panax notoginseng

Panax notoginseng, which can only be effective after growing for three to seven years, is also on display in the display cabinet next to ganoderma lucidum. According to teacher Lu, the main ingredient of the famous Yunnan Baiyao is Panax notoginseng. Panax notoginseng looks like ginger used in the kitchen. It's pitted, not as bright and mysterious as Ganoderma lucidum, but it's especially effective for hemostasis and healing. About this humble "37", its name also has its origin.

Exhibition hall

The exhibition hall of Chinese medical history has a great collection of more than 900 pieces of medical history relics, more than 200 kinds of ancient thread bound medical books, and more than 6000 volumes of traditional Chinese medicine books and periodicals. With the formation and development of Chinese medicine as the main line, the exhibition hall is divided into ten parts: the origin, new development and new achievements of Chinese medicine.

The exhibition hall of traditional Chinese medicine fully displays all aspects of the system of traditional Chinese medicine on a grand scale, mainly including: comprehensive exhibition hall of traditional Chinese medicine; herbarium of traditional Chinese medicine, etc. Now we have collected 3000 kinds of plant wax leaf specimens (12000 copies), 2500 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine specimens, more than 600 kinds of Chinese herbal pieces (about 1000), more than 1000 kinds of Chinese patent medicines, nearly 200 kinds of peeled and soaked specimens of medicinal animals and hundreds of color photos of medicinal plants.

Treasure of town hall

Animal stone Ma Bao

Stepping into the three-story traditional Chinese medicine exhibition hall of the museum, the first thing you see is not ginseng with well-developed roots, nor Polygonum multiflorum with strange shapes, but exquisite and lifelike animal specimens, as if this is not a museum of traditional Chinese medicine, but a museum of nature. "The sources of traditional Chinese medicine are divided into three categories: animals, plants and minerals," Lu told reporters. These specimens only directly illustrate the importance of animals as the source of traditional Chinese medicine. "

Looking around the exhibition hall, we found that the plant specimens in the glass containers are still "delicious", red flowers and green leaves, in Beijing in winter

Add a lot of spring to the exhibition hall. "This is a plant specimen that we use special solvents to soak. These specimens can usually keep color for 20 to 30 years." Lu told reporters. In the display cabinet at the entrance of the exhibition hall, a smooth and smooth stone with egg blue and silk stripes is particularly attractive. "This is Ma Bao, the stone in Ma's stomach and intestines. Animal calculus has the functions of detoxification, resuscitation, tranquilizing and phlegm resolving in traditional Chinese medicine. This horse treasure in our collection is very precious. It has a diameter of 11cm

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