Uyghur Tibabetchiligi Tarixi (HISTORY OF UYGUR MEDICINE)

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HISTORY OF UYGUR MEDICINE

As the Turkic inhabitants of Xinjiang, an autonomous region of
westernmost China, the Uygurs had an extensive knowledge of medicine
and medical practice. Traditional Uygur therapy can be traced back
for more than 2,700 years through written records and is still very
popular today.

Sung (Song) Dynasty (906-960) sources indicate that a Uygur
physician, Nanto, traveled to China, and brought with him many kinds
of medicine not known to the Chinese. There are 103 different herbs
for use in Uygur medicine recorded in a medical compendium completed
by Li Shizen (1518-1593), a Chinese medical authority. The Tartar
scholar Rashit Rahmeti Arat has written two valuable books in German
entitled Zur Heilkunde der Uighuren (Medical Practices of the
Uygurs), in 1930 and 1932, relying on Uygur documents discovered in
Xinjiang. In his book, Arat gives important information on Uygur
medicine and medical treatment.

DEVELOPMENT

Uygur medicines and pharmacology has become a rare one in Chinese
traditional pharmacology. It is one of the four major Chinese
medicine systems, along with Chinese, Tibetan, and Mongolian
traditional medicines. As a summary of experience and essence of
talents of nationality people, Uygur medicine has been cultivated on
its traditional classics during its development, accumulated and
renovated in the living, production and struggles of people with
diseases during the long time, and has combined the modern science
and technology and shaped its unique theory system and
pharmaceutical utilizing methods.

The government of Xinjiang is taking active measures to encourage
Uygur medicine. Academic circles offer courses on orthopedics,
dermatology, etc. and the preparation of medicines. Clinical
training centers have been established to disseminate the
professional knowledge of the Uygur medicine.

THEORY

The Uyghur medicines and pharmacology carries out testing, analysis,
diagnosis, formulating prescription and treatment on a series of
Uygur theories directory such as humoralism(System based on the
ancient Greek theory of four basic elements--air, earth, fire, and
water--and four bodily fluids or humors--blood, phlegm, gall and
choler), craseology (drought, dry heat, raw, muggy) and physical
strength theory.

According to documents survey, there are more than 1,000 types of
Uyghur pharmaceuticals, including 500 types of common medicines and
more than 200 types of common preparations. The main ingredients of
Uygur medicines are native flowers, seeds and fruits that grow in
Xinjiang area such as Saussureu involucrata Kar.et Kin, Arnebia
Forsk., Punica granatum L. Dracocephalum heterophyllum Benth. Animal
components and natural minerals added sometimes.

UYGHUR MEDICINE PRODUCTION

The predecessor of Xinjiang Uyghur Pharmaceutical Co., ltd, one of
our subsidiaries in Xinjiang is an institution set up by Chinese
government to study the traditional Uyghur medicine. Integrating
with science and technology research, teaching, product cultivation,
production and sales, it has a new product cultivation department,
operation and plan department, technology service department, modern
preparation workshop etc. Its plant has tablet, capsule, granule,
oral liquor assembly lines, and can produce 86 types of
preparations, of which 35 types has been listed in the Uyghur volume
of the Pharmaceutical Standard of the Ministry of Public Health of
China. We are reforming the plant construction according to GMP
Standards, in order to guarantee the product quality in a better way
and improve the productivity capacity and level.

NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

The Uyghur pharmaceutical is effective in treatment, safe in taking,
rich in resources. Our researchers takes the unique advantage of the
Uyghur medicine, and pursuing the latest, the best, and keeping the
principle of not departing from the origin, and has developed 7
types of new medicines such as Zukamu granule. These products won
good appraisals from customers as soon as they were put into the
market.