Xiong's Folk Traditional Chinese Medicine in Yudu Dunben Hall

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Yudu, located in the east of Ganzhou City, was established as a county in the Western Han Dynasty. It is a populous county in Ganzhou City and a Hakka settlement. It has a subtropical humid monsoon climate and is rich in Chinese herbal medicine resources. It has low mountains and hills and inconvenient transportation. Historically, it was famous for its three hammers and three craftsmen (iron hammer, cylinder repair hammer, cotton hammer, carpenter, bamboo craftsman, and dyer). There was a large population flow outside to make a living, and epidemics occurred from time to time. As a result, folk Chinese medicine that adapts to local needs came into being, forming a strong atmosphere of Chinese medicine culture. The Xiong family of Yudu Dunbentang came to Nanchang from Jiangling in their early years. During the Ming Dynasty, they arrived in Yudu during the Chenghua period via Ji'an and Suichuan. In the late Ming Dynasty, Mr. Jin Bengui, a famous doctor from Qingjiang, came to Yudu to practice medicine and release flowers to avoid war. He stayed at the Xiong family, and the Xiong family entertained him very well. In his later years, Mr. Jin accepted Xiong Yingchu, the son of Xiong Fengwu, as his apprentice and taught him medicine. Thus, the Xiong family folk Chinese medicine of Yudu Dunbentang was born. Since then, through several dynasties, lasting more than 370 years, and twelve consecutive generations, the Xiong family of Dunbentang has produced many famous doctors, who are dedicated to their work and unswervingly established the well-known Yudu Dunbentang Xiong family folk Chinese medicine, especially famous for "flowering". For hundreds of years, the Xiong family folk Chinese medicine of Yudu Dunbentang has inherited and developed the concept of Chinese medicine. In terms of medical inheritance education, it has maintained the original ecology of the Chinese nation's private school culture, and has outstanding historical and cultural value. The service concept of the Xiong family folk Chinese medicine of Yudu Dunbentang has obvious mass views and distinct folk characteristics; in medical practice, it demonstrates the characteristics of Chinese medicine of "holistic concept" and "differential diagnosis and treatment", and has mastered a set of unique skills and ancestral tricks for treatment, showing excellent medical results. With this unique housekeeping skill, it has maintained a long-lasting inheritance, has a far-reaching social impact in the local area, and has obvious typicality and representativeness in the folk traditional medicine community. In the inheritance of successive generations, the large-scale medical work of Dunbentang folk Chinese medicine, "Dunbentang Xiong's Medical Mirror", with its unique insights into theories, methods, prescriptions and medicines, especially the secret and proven prescriptions, is a historical accumulation of precious knowledge of more than a dozen generations and has high practical and scientific research value.

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