The use of tiger bone wine to cure diseases has a thousand years of history in China. Twenty-five volumes of the Compendium of Materia Medica: there are "tiger bone wine, cure arm shin pain" and "control evil qi, kill ghosts and poisons, cure evil sores and rat fistulas". That is to say, tiger bone has significant anti-inflammatory, wind chasing, analgesia, bone strengthening and other effects, mainly used for the treatment of osteoporosis, rheumatism and bone injuries, bad sores and so on. Especially for rheumatoid arthritis patients, tiger bone wine has the best effect and can be removed from the root.
China is the country of origin of tigers, and tigers are distributed throughout China. Therefore, in history, there are many pharmacies that make tiger bone wine in various parts of China, the most famous of which is Beijing Tongrentang, and the tiger bone wine produced by it ranks among the top ten traditional famous medicines in Tongrentang.
"After obeying the elbow, discerning the real estate, concocting although it is complicated, it does not dare to save labor, and although the taste is expensive, it does not dare to reduce material resources" The old shop of TongrenTang Lejia made tiger bone wine according to the secret recipe of the Tai Hospital during the Daoguang years for the exclusive use of the court. A tiger weighing 300 kilograms is said to be able to produce 50 pounds of bones, and Tongrentang's tiger bone wine uses a highly pure grain liquor pulp as the basis, in addition to tiger bones, it is also equipped with hundreds of precious Chinese medicines, which is such a superb product.
In 1956, the Pharmaceutical Industry Administration announced the formula and process for the preparation of tiger bone wine in Tongrentang. It can be seen that Tiger Bone Wine is a very large compound recipe. First of all, some raw materials should be made into medicines, many of which are famous medicines themselves, such as national liquor, reconstructed pills, etc., and the preparation process is also quite complex and exquisite
After the Republic of China, Tongrentang did not have the gold signboard of "court offering" and "independent official medicine", and other brands gradually flourished.
In the 1930s, the tiger bone wine made in Jiuzhitang, Changsha, Hunan Province, which was once on a par with Tongrentang in the south, was known as the first in the world. Jiuzhitang has a relationship with Suzhou Lei's, and the tiger bone wine configured is an ancient recipe that has been heard throughout Suzhou Lei Yun.
In addition, the tiger bone wine produced by Tianjin Lerentang is also very famous. Lerentang was opened by the descendants of the old shop of Tongrentang in Beijing. The tiger bones used in pharmacies in the north near the northeast such as Tongrentang, Lerentang and Darentang are mainly Siberian tigers, and Jiuzhitang and others mostly use South China tiger bones to make tiger bone wine.
Compared with the extensive distribution of Chinese tigers in history, in recent decades, due to large-scale eradication campaigns, population growth, a large number of land and forest areas, and environmental destruction, the distribution range and population of Chinese tigers have undergone amazing shrinkage and decline, and only some sporadic micro-populations remain, and China's tigers have rapidly moved towards extinction.
Make up for it. In 1993, China acceded to and signed the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, which clarified in Appendix I of the Convention that rhinos and tigers are endangered wild animals under international key protection. On May 29 of the same year, the State Council promulgated the Notice on Prohibiting trade in rhino horn and tiger bones, reiterating the prohibition of all trade activities in rhino horn and tiger bones. Article 3 stipulates: "Abolish the standards for the medicinal use of rhino horn and tiger bone, and in the future, rhino horn and tiger bone shall not be used for pharmaceuticals." The formulated preparations of traditional Chinese medicine containing rhino horn and tiger bone ingredients that have been produced must be sealed within half a year from the date of issuance of this notice and prohibited from being sold. In the same year, the Pharmacopoeia of the People's Republic of China also deleted the item "tiger bone". As a result, tiger bone wine was discontinued nationwide. Tongrentang also changed the tiger bone to the leopard bone, and changed the name of the tiger bone wine to "bone protection wine". Later, "bone protection wine" became "strong bone wine", which is still one of the top ten famous drugs in Tongrentang today.
Nowadays, the authentic Tongrentang tiger bone wine that we see and collect are all the remnants of the folk of that year.
This bottle of wine is a product after the tongrentang public-private partnership in 1954, and it is about half a kilogram
After the founding of New China, Tongrentang joined the public-private partnership, which was later changed to the state-owned Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Factory. The pharmaceutical factory has a medicinal liquor workshop to produce various medicinal liquors.
In 1971, the former Tongrentang medicinal liquor workshop was transformed into a specialized medicinal distillery - Beijing No. 7 Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory
In 1980, it sold about 60 degrees of Tiger Bone Wine of Chinese Medicine Factory
Figure 4 This bottle of wine is the packaging of the Beijing Chinese Medicine Factory, on September 1, 1979, after the tongrentang factory, shop and brand were restored, the Beijing No. 7 Chinese Medicine Factory was renamed Beijing Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Factory, but this packaging of this wine label was used until 1981.
In 1982, the tiger bone wine sold domestically by Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Distillery began to use new packaging, and the "Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory" was replaced by "Beijing Tongrentang Pharmaceutical Distillery", and the rest of the form remained unchanged.
Product advertising in the era of Beijing Traditional Chinese Medicine Factory
The tiger bone wine produced by Tongrentang for export uses the trademark of "Li Shizhen Brand" for export, and is divided into three specifications: 650ml, 325ml and 162ml.
Because Tongrentang Tiger Bone Wine is prepared with a high degree of pure grain liquor of about 60 degrees, and the packaging is very tight, although it has increased its medicinal power for more than 20 years. In addition to rheumatoid arthritis and half-body failure, it also has obvious effects on kidney weakness, liver and kidney weakness, waist and foot weakness and other symptoms, and these tiger bone wines that were left in the past were first "discovered" by the bosses along the coast and collected in large quantities.
Exported about 60 degrees "Li Shizhen brand" tiger bone medicinal liquor (650ml, 323ml)
Tongrentang tiger bone wine; the production of tiger bone wine not only uses tiger bone, but also uses many plants, animals, minerals of traditional Chinese medicine, one hundred and dozens of kinds, including both angelica, licorice, astragalus, windproof, Sichuan root, etc., which are not common in ordinary medicines, such as goat blood, natural copper, snake meat, psoralen, etc., in addition to a variety of expensive materials such as ginseng, ox yellow, musk, rhinoceros horn, deer antler, cordyceps sinensis, tiger bone wine workshop to choose medicinal materials, has always been very picky, the origin is not compatible, not the best goods are not used at all, For example, astragalus should use Inner Mongolia Kulun, rhubarb should use Xining, White Peony should use Zhejiang Hangzhou, Poria should use Hubei Luotian, and it must be head and parallel goods, as for tiger bones, the first choice is to buy the whole shelf of goods when purchasing, and the second choice must be the whole piece, the broken bones must be absolutely not bought, in order to prevent other animal bones from mixing in, the windproof must be whisked, forsythia is to be stalked, ephedra should be used to remove the root knots, the deer antler should be burned with wine to burn off the fluff, the ginseng and xuan ginseng should be cut off, and the bones on the turtle shell, tortoise shell and tiger bone should be removed. Stir-fry the green skin, frankincense and incense with vinegar, and stir-fry Welling Immortal and He Shou Wu with wine, and the magic of its concoction is difficult to describe.
Tiger Bone Wine Medicinal Liquor Workshop makes Tiger Bone Wine, not to soak more than 100 flavored Chinese medicinal materials together in the wine, but to make most of the concocted medicinal materials into Traditional Chinese medicine formulas first, and to put the whole tiger bone in the upper 70 degree sorghum wine for 3 years to go to its cremation and burial gas. After crushing it into tiger bone gel. In proportion to more than 100 kinds of formulas, put in the concocted tiger bone sorghum wine and stir evenly, and after storing for half a year, it becomes tiger bone wine.
One of the production drawings of tiger bone wine
In 1992, it sold "Tongren Brand" Tiger Bone Medicine Wine and 1994 Bone Protection Wine
Tiger Bone Liquor has always been made of highly pure grain liquor brewed by the South Road Roast Pot in the Daxing area, and after the founding of New China, it continued to use the pure grain high base liquor of the state-owned Daxing Distillery. After Tongrentang Medicinal Distillery moved to Tongzhou, it was only after it began to adopt the high wine of Tongzhou Distillery. The alcohol content is not marked on the packaging, and the tiger bone wine exported to Japan has an actual measured alcohol content of more than 56 degrees.
In addition to medicinal uses, the collection value of Tongrentang Tiger Bone Wine, which is in good condition, cannot be underestimated. It is a physical witness to the ten famous medicines of authentic Tongrentang and a good example of traditional Chinese medicine.
In recent years, there are some local manufacturers who have aged tigers and claim to have obtained permission from the forestry department to produce and sell tiger bone wine, and there are also so-called Russian tiger bone wine that is quietly sold in China. What's more, according to recent media reports, the Shenyang dead tiger incident has not yet subsided, Heilongjiang a tiger garden science museum at 780 yuan per pound public sale of bone wine is tiger bone bubble wine, behind which there is also a strong bone wine with tiger bones in the secret sale, the price of which reaches 2800 yuan per pound.
These units and individuals who illegally produce and sell tiger bone wine will be punished by law, but speaking of its medicinal properties, even if the raw materials of these so-called tiger bone wines use tiger bones, the formula and production process are very different from the ancient recipes of traditional Chinese medicine such as Tongrentang and Jiuzhitang, and its medicinal effects may be worlds apart.
The ancients rationally used animal resources for the benefit of people, which is beyond reproach. If not saved, the tiger, which is about to become the legendary king of the forest, can only be seen in zoos. And tiger bone wine is a deplorable chapter in the tragedy of the tiger!
Finally, there are a few anecdotes about tiger bone wine, which are shared with Jun:
First, the book "Huxiang Wine Culture" records that according to the memories of the old man in Changsha, in the 1930s, he saw a scene of killing tigers on the street and making live advertisements in front of a pharmacy. The male tiger in the iron cage was numbed with beef mixed with sleeping pills, and the audience was in a frenzy, and several big men dressed in Wusong costumes drank three bowls of wine (tiger bone wine?). Strengthen your guts, and then kill the tiger like a pig.
In 1941, the Englishman Michael Lordsay, with the help of the Eighth Route Army, ran away from Yenching University, came to Jin-Cha-Ji and then went to Yan'an to participate in China's anti-Japanese work. In his memoirs, it is mentioned that in 1945, the US military observation group was in Yan'an, some officials were once extremely bored and began to drink heavily, and at that time, Yan'an was short of resources, and the market could not buy alcohol later. And so it happened that two U.S. Strategy Bureau officials set a record story: the two of them drank 27 bottles of tiger bone wine in five days.
3. According to volume 306 of the Pujifang, which was written in the early Ming Dynasty, tiger bone wine with a little earthworm feces and yellow mud can be applied to the affected area to cure dog bites.