Brief Introduction to the Chinese medicine Specimen Museum of Jiangxi University of TCMHello 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 iscomprised 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 TrionycisThe 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。
Actions :Nourish yin and suppress the hyperactive yang, soften and disperse the lumps.功效：滋阴潜阳，软坚散结。
Application :（临床运用）1 、It is used for febrile disease with consumption of yin, hyperactivity of liver-yang and deficiency-wind stir-ring inside.用于热病伤阴，肝阳上亢，虚风内动。
1、For yin-deficiency with fever, hectic fever and nightsweating.用于阴虚发热，骨蒸盗汗。
2、For abdominal mass and amenorrhea due to bloodstasis.用于胁下癥块，腹中瘀块及血瘀经闭。
Usage and Dosage : （用法用量）10~30g is used in decoction for oral use, broken and decocted first. The raw is suitable for nourishing yin and suppressing the hyperactive yang and the one roasted with vinegar for softening and dispersing the lumps.水煎服，10~30克，须打碎先煎。
滋阴潜阳宜生用，软坚散结宜醋炙用。
二、海马：HippocampusA Chinese drug, the dried body of Hippocampus. It issweet in taste and warm in nature, acts on the Liver and the Kidney Meridians,中药名，海龙科动物的干燥体。
味甘，性温。
归肝、肾经。
and has the effects of warming the kidney and strengthening yang, reducing stagnation, inducing subsidence of swelling.功效温肾壮阳，散结消肿。
Indications : impotence, enuresis, dyspnea due to deficiency of the kidney, mass in the abdomen, traumatic injuries;external use for carbuncles and boils.用于阳痿，遗尿，肾虚作喘，症瘕积聚，跌打损伤；外治痈肿疔疮。