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Brief Introduction to the Chinese medicine Specimen Museum of Jiangxi University of TCM

Hello everyone/good morning /afternoon,ladies and gentlemen,

Welcome to the Chinese medicine Specimen Museum of JiangxiUniversity of TCM. It’s my honour to be here to tell you something about it. My name is Gao Na, the introducer of today .

The Chinese Medicine Specimen Museum of Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine was founded in 1951 as the successor of Chinese Medicine Specimen Room of Jiangxi Pharmaceutial School. This museum is one of the earlier set up in domestic TCM colleges and universities. Through sixty years of efforts , it has become an comprehensive Chinese Medicine Specimen Museum with various kinds of functions, such as teaching, researches of science, academic exchanges with foreigns, and collection, identification, and the preservation of the Chinese Medicine, and so on.

The museum covers a floor area of 1,120 square meters and consists of two parts. Which are the comprehensive exhibition hall of Chinses Medicine that we are now in and specimen room of medicinal plants that nearby here.

The comprehensive exhibition hall of Chinese Medicine is

comprised of maceracine（浸渍）medicine, raw medicinal material exhibition section, decocting pieces (prepared medicinal herb 饮片) exhibition section and Chinese patent medicine (中成药) exhibition section. There are over 5000 bottles and 2000 kinds of Chinese medicine specimen kept in the raw medicinal material exhibition section. All these have been authenticated by experts and include some rare classic rude drugs, precious medicinal material, special medicinal material native to Jiangxi and specimen used as the TCM research objects in the state level eighth five-year, ninth five-year, tenth five-year and eleventh five-year scientific research projects. Stored in the decocting pieces exhibition section are over 310 kinds of Chinese decocting pieces prepared with special processing technique which are well-known as Zhangshu School and Jianchang School, Sichuan School. In the Chinese patent medicine exhibition section, there are over 200 kinds of Chinese patent medicine.

The medicinal plants specimen room store over 50000 medicinal plants samples, which belong to 240 families, 1077genus and 2600 species. This number is one of the frontiors among the demostic TCM colleges and universities, stored in red algae(藻类植物), which has almost one hundred year’s history, is the earliest specimen of this medicinal plants specimen room,

from which we can know the long history of this medicinal plants specimen room.

Now , let’s begin to learn the comprehensive exhibition hall in detail.

一、鳖甲：Carapax Trionycis

The source is from the shell of Trionyx sinensis . The medicinal material is mainly produced in the areas of Hebei, Hunan, and Anhui, etc.. The animal can be caught all year round. After it is caught and its head is removed, it is boiled in boiling water for one to two hours and then the shell is fetched out, the remaining meat in the shell being got rid of, and dried in the sun. The crude one or the one prepared with vinegar after stir-baked with sand can be used for medication.

为鳖科动物的背甲，主产于河北、湖南、安徽等地，全年可捕捉，捕捉后去头，置沸水中煮1~2小时，取出背甲，去净残肉，晒干。生用或沙炒后醋淬用。

Medicinal Properties :

Salty in flavor, cold in nature and attributive to the liver and kidney meridians.

药性：味咸，性寒。归肝、肾经。

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