中国的传统医学分3个组成部分:中医学,民族医学及民间医学。近几十年来,我国对 30多个少数民族的传统医药资料进行发掘整理,民族医药的文献资料逐步得到全面整理,没有文字的民族医药经验也用汉文记录下来并进行理论上的总结梳理。全国现有民族医医院196所,共计床位6492张,门诊部359个,藏医、蒙医、维吾尔医都有高等医药院校。藏、蒙、维、傣、苗、彝6个民族分别有社会化、现代化的民族药产品,民族药成药的生产企业130多家,允许生产的药品国家标准865 个,其中非处方药(OTC)200个,民族药生产已成为民族地区发展经济的亮点。

The traditional medicine of China can be divided into three component parts: the traditional Chinese medicine, the traditional medicine of all the national minorities of china, and folk herbal medicine. This article summarized that the materials of traditional medicines of more than 30 national minorities of china have been sorted out and excavated in recent decades in china, and introduced the condition and tendency of improvement in correlative medicinal college and folk medicine industry. It put forward that in china today, the experience of ethnic medicine of those nationalities, which have no written languages, has been recorded in Han language and theoretically been summarized and sorted out while the literatures and data of all the ethnic medicines in the country have overall been explored. At the same time, how to develop folk medicine economy in folk region is deeply analyzed and expected.