During the rainy season in the south of the Yangtze River in 1992, 18-year-old Lin Banxia stood in front of the Huichun Hall that was about to be crushed by bulldozers, holding the rosewood box left behind by his grandfather.
This girl, who has been able to distinguish three hundred medicinal scents since she was a child, and was called "little medicinal essence" by her neighbors, once thought that her life would be nothing more than spending her whole life guarding a patchy medicine cabinet. Until my grandfather passed away suddenly, the advertisements for antibiotics in the traditional Chinese medicine clinic next door drowned out the sound of pounding medicine, and the smoke and dust from the state-owned cement factory filled the bricks and tiles - the great wheel of the times roared in, crushing all the old dreams of peace.
The "Lin's Medical Records" in the dark grid is stained with blood, recording strange diseases that have left Western medicine helpless: the menstrual blood-soaked overalls of a female cement factory worker, the withered hands of an old tailor covered with purple spots, and the squirming aconite residue in the stomach of a comatose teenager in the video room. On the yellowed letter, my grandfather's scrawled handwriting pierced the fog: "The survival of traditional Chinese medicine does not depend on the debate between ancient and modern times, but on whether the wisdom of thousands of years can live in the present."
When the amoxicillin pill box reflects the cold light in the glass window, Pinellia ternata condenses the ancient prescription into brown particles, turning the decoction that has been suffering for a hundred years into a bag of granules in the palm of your hand; when the red paint from the demolition office climbs up the lintel of the Huichun Hall, she uses a three-edged needle to break through the tophi of the cement factory director, turning the roar of the bulldozer into the pounding sound of rebuilding the foundation.
This was a breakout that started in the hidden compartment of the medicine cabinet.
It is the rebirth of ancient medicine in the wave of jeans and Big Brother.
There is even a girl on the mottled purple pearl leaves,
He wrote "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" which belongs to the entire era.
Purpose: Inheriting traditional Chinese medicine culture