Song's Orthopedics is a traditional medicine and art project in the second batch of representative projects of Huai'an's municipal intangible cultural heritage. Historical evolution Song Baoxuan (1867-1937), a native of Shuyang, was poor and lonely when he was young, but he had an extraordinary IQ. At the age of fourteen, he became a monk in a temple in Nanping, Fujian due to difficulties in making a living. Later, he became the abbot and was kind all his life. In addition to studying Buddhism, he read "Su Wen" and devoted himself to studying medical works such as "Nei Jing" and "Nan Jing". Later, he learned ointment from Jianou. At the age of thirty-eight, he became a famous doctor in southern Fujian. Song believed that "the way of the world is established if we follow the origin, and the flow is long if we dredge the source." He made profound research on bone diseases and wrote many works in his life, but unfortunately they have been lost. At present, only two volumes of "Song's Bone Disease Prescription" and "Song's Bone Disease Interpretation" are available. In the early years of the Republic of China, Song Guangxing (1907-1986), the second-generation descendant of the Song family, made unique innovations in the use of ancestral medicines, ointments, etc. to diagnose bones. In practice, he combined the effects of medicines, ointments, and said: "One is to pull, and the other is to cut. If you pull the disease out of the place where it gathers, there will be no danger of deep penetration. If you cut the place where the disease passes, the evil will be cut off, and there will be no danger of random changes." He proposed: "If you worry that it may be slow and weak, use strong medicines, raw medicines, and fragrant medicines to lead the group of medicines to open the knots and stagnate, and reach them directly, so that they can attack and nourish, and all are as expected, and return to the circulation of qi and blood, and the disease will be cured. This is the method of making ointments for treatment. The exquisiteness can be seen. In the early days of liberation, Song Yandong (1929), the third-generation descendant of the Song family, and Zhang Mingqing, a professor at Xiamen College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, co-wrote the book "Song's Medical Records". As a school, it was included in the Fujian Famous Medical Theory Series. Song Yandong later moved to Huai'an and settled there, and brought his ancestral orthopedic treatment to Huai'an, which has been more than 60 years ago. The basic content and specific treatments are: first, dozens of Chinese medicines such as horse chestnut seeds, safflower, arisaema, Liu Jinu, radix poriae, bone-penetrating herb, frankincense, myrrh, Panax notoginseng, Eucommia bark, tripterygium wilfordii, diatomaceous earth wind, pine needles, and borneol, which are decocted and soaked according to their nature and flavor, and high-concentration grain wine juice, are prepared according to a secret recipe, put in a cloth bag, and applied to the affected area, isolated by a thin cloth, heated with a hot water bag, and then applied with a plaster made from centipede, silkworm, scorpion, cattle and sheep horns, etc. as the main ingredients according to a secret recipe. It has outstanding curative effects on injuries such as bruises and soft tissue contusions, especially on symptoms of waist, neck, shoulder, spine, and arthritis caused by wind, cold, dampness, and evil. It can activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis, dredge meridians and activate collaterals, soften and disperse nodules, remove rot and regenerate new muscles, and can be pulled and cut flexibly, opened and moved freely. It does not require acupuncture or oral administration. The curative effect is long-lasting and has no side effects. People can still work and move during treatment. An elderly person described the situation of Song's orthopedic diagnosis and treatment in the 1920s: "In the south of Qingjiangpu, there is the orthopedic doctor Song's house. Many people from far and near seek medical treatment. There may be one or two hundred people a day, or three or four hundred people. They all gather at a certain time. There are old men and leaves, some are supported, and some are supported. Some lean or squat, some stand or kneel, some look or look, some call or shout, some groan or chant, some cry or cry, and they are crowded in the courtyard, waiting for the ointment to be applied, and they are very anxious." It proves that the effect of Song's orthopedic external application is deeply trusted by the people. Important Value Song's orthopedic treatment method first distinguishes symptoms, then discusses treatment methods, and then selects drugs. It mainly uses medicated compresses, supplemented by plasters, and supplemented by acupuncture, rubbing, branding, and mixing. It overcomes the shortcomings of slow penetration of general plasters and limited application range, and makes up for the shortcomings of decoctions, acupuncture, and other methods. It provides a certain clinical theoretical basis and specific method specifications for external treatments of orthopedic diseases, and has high medical research value. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) 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