Study On The Mineral Medicines In Shi Yao Er Ya

Shi Yao Er Ya was written by Mei Biao,a native of the Western Shu River in Tang Dynasty.It was written in Tang Yuan He Bing Xu(AD 806).It contains and verifies the different names of the drugs which used in alchemy.The background of the book and its literature value analysis.Economic prosperity and national peace are the main characteristics of Tang Dynasty.Taoism was respected as the state religion,and alchemy also developed to its peak.Because of the yearning for immortality of the rulers of the past dynasties,many people devote themselves to alchemy.The prosperity of the economy of Tang Dynasty,the relative stability of the political environment,the emergence of Wai Dan Taoist schools,and considering the confidentiality of alchemy technology and formula,alchemists often use a variety of ways to obscure drugs or borrow related terms,which resulting in a large number of hidden Taoist language emerge.That is one of the reasons of why Taoist literature is so difficult to read and alchemy is also not easy.Therefore,the book of "Shi Yao Er Ya" has not only the influence of history,culture,social politics and economy,but also the help of the development of pharmacology.Through the systematic exploration of the literature value of "Shi Yao Er Ya ",it can provide reference for the study of Taoist hermit,the correct cognition of mineral medicine and the collation of related medical documents.A study on mineral medicine hermitage.Traditional Chinese medicine scholars usually take the dominant characteristics of drugs as the naming motivation and are easy to recognize,while Taoist scholars,influenced by the secrecy of sect preaching,are usually named for the purpose of covert real drugs,so they are called pseudonyms.The pseudonym in the book has two characteristics: first,the general name used to explain the pseudonym in the book mainly adopts the drug name in Chinese materia medica,and the aliases of some drugs in Chinese materia medica are mixed into the other drug pseudonyms to form an encryption phenomenon.Second,the phenomenon of the same name in the hermit occurs,it is difficult to distinguish the true mineral drug.The analysis of anonymous naming motivation is mainly divided into two points:external motivation and internal motivation.Through these justifications,we can basically grasp the understanding level of mineral medicine in the Tang Dynasty alchemists,and their focus on naming mineral drugs.Distribution of mineral drug producing areas of Shi Yao Er Ya.Mineral drugs in the book can be divided into two main producing areas,one is local,the other is extraterritorial.The main way of mineral medicine circulating in China is the "Tugong" system from the region to the central government and the rapidly developing regional medicinal materials trade market.The main path is the connecting post network with Changan as the center of the capital.The main ways of introducing foreign mineral drugs into the Tang Dynasty were official tributary trade and folk free trade,as well as the exchange of religion and medical culture between countries.The main path was the land Silk Road and the Maritime Silk Road.The economic and cultural exchange between different regions and countries has brought great influence to the development of traditional Chinese medicine.