The traditional Chinese medicine unearthed in Mawangdui has survived for more than 2100 years

Gao Liangjiang and prickly ash unearthed from Mawangdui Han tomb in Changsha more than 2100 years ago, fern and composite wax leaf specimens collected from the United States, Vietnam, North Korea, Emei Mountain and Daxinganling Mountains, and natural medicines such as eucalyptus, Jamaican dogwood, Canadian gum and Japanese beeswax If you are interested in our traditional Chinese medicine, then in Nanjing, you can feast your eyes In the pharmaceutical Museum of Jiangning campus of China Pharmaceutical University, there are these ancient Chinese herbal medicines on display Intern Zhang Li, reporter of modern express, Jin Feng, has 6 kinds of medicine unearthed from Mawangdui, which looks like entering the Grand View Garden of medicinal materials There are many samples and utensils of traditional Chinese medicine on display The reporter of Modern Express newspaper saw that among these antiquities, the most famous one is the national first-class cultural relic - several kinds of Chinese herbal medicines unearthed in the Han tomb No.1, Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan Province in 1972 After more than 2000 years of long time, the appearance of these drugs is shriveled, the texture is fragile, and the color is dark brown, which is difficult to identify Liu Siyi, a teacher of the pharmaceutical Museum, introduced that there were more than 20 kinds of Chinese herbal medicines unearthed at that time "After the excavation, some medicines and funerary objects had been mixed together and some of them were carbonized At that time, the school was entrusted to identify them." In that identification, Xu Guojun, a late academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and scholar of the Chinese Pharmaceutical University, successfully identified 9 kinds of medicinal materials from them, including Maoxiang, galangal, cinnamon, prickly ash, Xinyi, gaoben, Jiang, duheng and Peilan, which is the first time in the history of pharmacoarchaeology Liu Siyi said that today, six kinds of herbs are collected and displayed in the pharmaceutical Museum, namely, Maoxiang, galangal, cinnamon, Magnolia, prickly ash and Peilan "According to experts, these are all aromatic drugs When they were unearthed, the oil cells in the herbs had not volatilized They were mainly used to dispel dampness and evils, and had the effect of sterilization and dampproof." Liu Siyi introduced that as a drug containing volatile oil, it is very rare to retain it for more than 2000 years Over the past 70 years, 28000 specimens of wax leaf have been collected in the pharmaceutical Museum, and many works of art like specimens of wax leaf have also been collected They are made of precious medicinal plant specimens Bian yunyun, a teacher of the pharmaceutical Museum, said, "these are all specimens from the early days of the school The earliest is the fern specimen brought back from the United States by Guan Guangdi, the old principal." The reporter saw from a yellow specimen label that the specimen was made in 1880, which is the oldest of the wax leaf specimens It is reported that in the past 70 years, there are 28000 wax leaf specimens in the Museum of pharmacy, involving more than 5000 kinds There are only 3 sets of natural medicine samples in the world, including "European sunflower", "Jamaican dogwood", "Canadian gum", "Japanese beeswax", "Malay gum" and "toltushan liquorice" Next to the drugs unearthed in Mawangdui, there is a whole glass wall, which shows the world natural drug samples purchased from E Merck company of Germany when the national pharmaceutical college, the predecessor of China Pharmaceutical University, was founded in 1936 They come from all over the world, with a total of more than 260 bottles, which are very precious and have been preserved completely up to now Liu Siyi told reporters, "now there are only three such world-wide natural drug samples in China, and the other two are in Zhongshan Botanical Garden and Taiwan respectively."