In 2010, the news that Yunnan Baiyao formula was made public in the United States caused an uproar in China. Why was the formula, which belonged to the level of state secrecy, disclosed abroad without authorization? Is China's century-old miracle medicine already so worthless?
There are many legends about Yunnan Baiyao, and the usual one is that when a medicinal herb collector was collecting medicine on the mountain, he saw two snakes fighting, and the defeated snake swam to a grassy field and rolled back and forth; after a while, a miracle happened, and the wound on the snake's body healed! The medicine collector was overjoyed, and the grass that cut the grassland developed Yunnan Baiyao.
Yunnan white herb
The medicinal effects of Yunnan Baiyao have also been passed on very well. It is said that someone was chased and killed by the enemy family, and was shot in the shoulder, and the bullet sank deep into the flesh. LangZhong he coated yunnan baiyao and bandaged it. When he was changed to untie the bandage a few days later, he only listened to the sound of "Dang", and the warhead actually fell to the floor on its own, and the wound had healed.
Yunnan Baiyao also contributed to the Long March of the Red Army. In 1935, while the Red Army was passing through Yunnan, it intercepted Kuomintang supplies, many of which were Yunnan Baiyao. Mao Zedong's wife He Zizhen and Yang Shangkun, who was the political commissar of the First Red Army, were injured, and it was only by this batch of Yunnan Baiyao that they were able to complete the Long March.
The birth of Yunnan Baiyao
The founder of Yunnan Baiyao is called Qu Huanzhang, born in 1880, of the Yi ethnic group, a native of Zhaoguan Village, Jiangchuan County, Yunnan Province. He lost his father at the age of seven, his mother at the age of nine, and he and his sister depended on each other.
The sister later married a local doctor, Yuan Huai, and Qu Huanzhang, who was in his teens, helped in his brother-in-law's clinic. Under the guidance of his brother-in-law, Qu Huanzhang learned a lot of trauma medicine knowledge and Dan medicine preparation skills. In 1896, under the auspices of his sister and brother-in-law, sixteen-year-old Qu Huanzhang married Li Huiying, a girl from a neighboring village, and then set up his own door to see the local people. It was in this process that he developed the later Yunnan Baiyao.
Qu Huanzhang
This medicine was originally called "
Bai Bao Dan
Yunnan Baiyao was its later name.
Around 1930, Qu Huanzhang himself said that he had developed Baibaodan by the legend of others. His second wife, Miao Lanying, also confirmed this, and affirmed that this stranger was from an old county in Yunnan
Yao Lianjun
。
It is said that Qu Huanzhang once fell seriously ill and fainted on the streets of an old county, just when he was seen by Yao Lianjun, who was passing by, and rescued him. Yao Lianjun was a Daoist monk of the Wudang Sect, known as the "Divine Doctor of Southern Yunnan", proficient in wounds, familiar with hundreds of herbs, and had the art of reviving the dead, and had saved countless people.
After Qu Huanzhang was rescued, he learned that it was yao Lianjun, a divine doctor, who saved him, and immediately prostrated his head and worshipped him as a teacher. Seeing that Qu Huanzhang was a teachable material, Yao Lianjun passed on to him all the things he had learned in his lifetime. Unfortunately, Yao Lianjun was later assassinated by the enemy, and Qu Huanzhang developed the miracle medicine "Baibaodan" according to his master's instructions.
The second "nobleman" in life is a bandit
If Yao Lianjun was the first nobleman in Qu Huanzhang's life, then his second nobleman was a bit unexpected, because this person was a bandit.
At that time, bandits were rampant in the land of Yungui. Once, the leader of the bandits in southern Yunnan
Wu Xuexian
His chest was injured, and the injury was very serious, so he sent someone to abduct Qu Huanzhang to the cottage to heal his wounds. Qu Huanzhang used Bai Baodan to heal Wu Xuexian's injuries, and Wu Xuexian was grateful. After that, Qu Huanzhang's pharmacy seemed to have a talisman, no matter how disturbing the bandits were, they never harassed Qu Huanzhang.
Some merchants were mentally unbalanced, so they accused Qu Huanzhang of being a bandit, and Qu Huanzhang was arrested by the government and imprisoned. In the end, his brother-in-law Yuan Huai bribed the county officials with eighty quintals of grain to rescue Qu Huanzhang from prison.
The so-called "Saion lost his horse, is it a blessing to know?" ”
In 1921, Tang Jiyao, the leader of the Dian warlords, promised Wu Xuexian the title of military commander and bribed him. Wu Xuexian helped Tang Jiyao return to Dian to succeed in his administration, and also became powerful and powerful, becoming a warlord with great popularity.
In order to repay Qu Huanzhang's life-saving grace that year, and also to express his apologies for being affected by himself, Wu Xuexian sent someone to invite Qu Huanzhang to Kunming to open a clinic. Qu Huanzhang wanted to open up a new market for Bai BaoDan, so he gladly went there
Kunming Nanqiang Street
Opened an injury clinic.
Who expected that Qu Huanzhang would once again save Wu Xuexian.
In 1923, Wu Xuexian responded to Sun Yat-sen's call and led the Dian army out of Guangxi to fight against the northern warlords. As a result, he was defeated back to Kunming, and his right leg was also broken by a bullet. Foreign doctors believe that there is no other way, and they must have amputations if they want to save their lives. In a hurry, Wu Xuexian thought of Qu Huanzhang. Qu Huanzhang did not use a knife and a needle, but used all Chinese herbal medicine and traditional wound methods, and actually cured Wu Xuexian's fracture, allowing him to walk normally.
Wu Xuexian could not express his gratitude, so he simply let the military band play music and parade in Kunming City to publicize Bai Baodan for Qu Huanzhang, and he also personally went to the door to send a large plaque of gold paint to Qu Huanzhang's clinic and wrote a book."
Fulfillment is like God
”。
Naturally, playing iron also needs to be hard. The reason why Bai Baodan is famous is mainly due to the results of Qu Huanzhang's deep research and continuous improvement.
As early as 1914, Qu Huanzhang further developed on the basis of the original formula"
Wanying Baibaodan
”。 Soon, he also developed injury drugs such as Tiger Force Scatter and Bone Supporting Hundred Treasure Dan.
In the treatment of knife and gun injuries and bruises, Wanying Baibaodan has a very miraculous curative effect, even if the injured person penetrates the chest and abdomen, injures the internal organs, as long as the body is soft and does not die, although the person is unconscious, it can be treated.
"Enter the Hundred Treasure Dan first, and then take the tiger force to disperse, and the qi will gradually awaken the extinct; the blood flow will gradually stop." Then use disinfectant powder, wash wound hemostasis, and apply to the wound. If there is a bullet head inside, the change of service support bone scatter, the warhead can exit on its own. ”
In 1928, bottled Wanying Baibaodan began to be listed, and it was quickly sold throughout the country. Qu Huanzhang also established sales offices in Shanghai, Wuhan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Yokohama, Japan and other places.
At the end of 1933, Qu Huanzhang was elected chairman of the Yunnan Medical Doctors Association. In 1935, Chiang Kai-shek inspected Yunnan and received Qu Huanzhang at the provincial government. In order to express his patriotic feelings, Qu Huanzhang presented the Nationalist army with three liters of 500 bottles of BaiBaodan. Chiang Kai-shek was very pleased and inscribed"
The potency is complete
The inscription, along with a bust of himself, sent someone to return Qu Huanzhang.
The Battle of Taierzhuang made new contributions
In September 1937, the Kuomintang 58th Army and 60th Army stationed in Yunnan went north to resist the Japanese, and Qu Huanzhang donated 30,000 bottles of Baibaodan to the troops. Because of the miraculous effect of treating gunshot wounds, Bai Baodan also saved countless people on the anti-Japanese battlefield and was praised by officers and men.
In early April 1938, the Battle of Taierzhuang broke out, and almost every soldier of the Sixtieth Army from Yunnan had a small medicine bottle of Baibaodan.
Whenever the warriors are injured, as long as they can still move, they do not wear bandages, do not sit on stretchers, just eat a little white powder in the bottle, and then after a simple external compress, they can fight again.
When the news of the great victory of Taierzhuang reached Kunming, Qu Huanzhang was very happy and asked people to buy 300,000 firecrackers and celebrate the great victory of our army for three or four consecutive hours.
The Battle of Taierzhuang made Qu Huanzhang's Wanying Baibaodan famous. In that year, the sales volume of 400,000 bottles was recorded, and Qu Huanzhang ushered in the peak of his career.
Career peak Bizarre death
But before Qu Huanzhang could further develop and grow his career, disaster quietly came, and Qu Huanzhang died inexplicably.
In 1938, the Kunming municipal government asked Qu Huanzhang to donate an airplane in the name of anti-Japanese resistance. Qu Huanzhang's small profits in the white medicine business could not afford to pay the huge amount of money needed for an airplane, but he still pledged thirty thousand Dian coins. The Kunming municipal government said that he pledged 30,000 national yuan, which was equivalent to 300,000 yuan. Seeing that Qu Huanzhang could not come up with the money, the Kunming Municipal Police Department immediately arrested him. After interceding with many parties, Qu Huanzhang borrowed money from the bank and collected 300,000 Dian coins before the police released him.
Not long after, Jiao Yitang, vice president of the Kuomintang Executive Yuan, invited Qu Huanzhang to Chongqing to take up the position of director of the newly established China National Medical Center. Although he did not have much friendship with Jiao Yitang before, this invitation was undoubtedly an opportunity for Qu Huanzhang at this time to escape, and he was eager to leave Kunming, which made him sad.
Jiao Yitang
However, just two months later, in August 1938, Qu Huanzhang inexplicably died of illness at the age of fifty-eight.
It is rumored that Jiao Yitang's appointment of Qu Huanzhang as the curator of the Chinese Medical Center was just a pretext, but in fact he wanted Qu Huanzhang's secret recipe for Bai Baodan, which was then handed over to the Zhonghua Pharmaceutical Factory, which jiao Yitang personally controlled. Qu Huanzhang naturally did not agree, so he was put under house arrest by Jiao Yitang and died of hunger strike.
Qu Huanzhang's death was unclear, and Jiao Yitang only sent a message through the newspaper to express his condolences and regret. Chiang Kai-shek also made a statement on this, saying:
"At a time when the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression was in need of talents, the sudden death of a famous doctor in our country, Qu Huanzhang, was truly an unfortunate thing for the country."
In addition, there is no doubt about Qu Huanzhang's inexplicable death.
Baibaodan was renamed Yunnan Baiyao
Qu Huanzhang had two marriages and had three sons, the eldest son, with his ex-wife Li Huiying
Qu Wanzeng
He studied medicine with his father, and his descendants still work in Yunnan Baiyao Factory. Qu Huanzhang's second wife, Miao Lanying, had three daughters and a son, and his daughter Qu Zhulin has also been engaged in the production of white medicine.
In Qu Huanzhang's will, the big pharmacy was inherited by his second wife, Miao Lanying, which made the eldest son Qu Wanzeng very dissatisfied. Both sides have also fought lawsuits over this, and both claim that they have obtained the true biography of Qu Huanzhang. Qu Wanzeng even opened his own pharmacy in Nanqiang Street, Kunming, listing "Qu Huanzhang Father and Son Pharmacy", which also sold Baibaodan.
In 1955, the relevant departments in Yunnan conducted a survey on the inheritance of Baibaodan, and finally believed that Miao Lanying was the legitimate heir of Qu Huanzhang, and at the same time, Qu Wanzeng's production and sale of Baibaodan was also recognized.
In the same year, Miao Lanying took the initiative to present the secret recipe of Baibaodan to the government. The Kunming Municipal Government held a commendation meeting for Miao Lanying and renamed Baibaodan to "
Yunnan Baiyao
", awarded to Kunming Pharmaceutical Factory for mass production. Since then, Yunnan Baiyao has replaced Qu Huanzhang's "Wanying Baibaodan", and its prescriptions and technological processes have been listed in the national confidentiality level, and private disclosure is not allowed.
The secret recipe is made public in the United States
So what happened to the secret recipe mentioned at the beginning of the article being made public?
It turned out that at the end of 2010, a domestic reporter found a document on the US Food and Drug Administration website, which was published in 2002, containing a reply to the administration's rejection of a request from a distributor of dietary and herbal supplements. The distributor submitted a letter of request to the bureau under U.S. law to sell Yunnan Baiyao tincture as a dietary supplement in the United States. The letter lists all the ingredients of Yunnan Baiyao tincture and indicates the Chinese and English name.
Why are traditional recipes, which belong to the national secret level, being made public abroad? Some people think that this is the need for the drug to enter the US market, but how much does the American recognize chinese medicine? Who revealed this secret recipe?
This matter has not attracted the attention of the relevant domestic departments, perhaps the formula of Yunnan Baiyao has no need for confidentiality, or even if the formula is made public, because of the complexity of the production process and drug introduction, it is difficult to be imitated? The reason for this is unknown.