The admiration of unique museum of traditional medicines in Binh Duong

Traditional medicine is a valuable asset of national medicine, which has existed for a long time, associated with the development of national cultural traditions, has a great role and potential in the cause of caring and protecting people's health. And, in Binh Duong, a museum of traditional medicine that is preserving and honoring the values of Vietnamese traditional medicine in the name of Vietnamese Museum of Traditional Medicine - Fito in Vinh Phu ward of Thuan An city.

Visitors are at the Fito Museum

Located on the territory of Vinh Phu ward in Thuan An city adjacent to Ho Chi Minh city, Fito Museum with a fairly long and an ancient tiled roof is easy to recognize. The museum is designed entirely of wood with countless exquisite motifs, creating an ancient and extremely cozy look. Here, the museum has recreated images, clearly described artifacts as well as engravings so that viewers can visualize all the activities of the ancient physicians and medical doctors from medical examination and treatment to pick up medicine and decoction.

Not only impressed by the nostalgic, large and majestic architecture, Fito Museum also creates a pleasant and peaceful feeling when blowing in the wind the scent of herbs. The interior of the museum is completely designed with wood painted with gold emulsion and imitation paintings painted with gold gilded in the past, and many motifs. An important thing that makes the value of Fito is that there are more than 3,000 rare and precious artifacts related to the Vietnamese traditional medicine from the Stone Age to the present. Among them, the collection of knives and grinding boats with the age of 2,500 years used to disperse and cut the drugs. A huge treasure of Han - Nom (Chinese-Vietnamese) books with more than 100,000 pages. Among them are many precious books such as "Y Tong Tam Tinh" (or the "Magic medicine") by Hai Thuong Lan Ong - Le Huu Trac.

The most solemn place in the museum is the place to place the altars of two medical ancestors, Tue Tinh and Hai Thuong Lan Ong. On the two sides are horizontal paintings, wooden couplets painted with vermilion and gilded like the ancestral altars of well-off families in the past. More unique, Fito also has a model of "Men's Medicine House" with many famous herbs. Luc Hoa Duong drugstore from Cho Lon around the 19th century was also reproduced in detail according to the model of "Northern medicine shop."Perhaps the most impressive is the mother-of-pearl painting depicting “Traditional medicine in the life of the Vietnamese community” along with traditional Chinese medicine street of Ben Thanh market, Hue citadel and finally Hoan Kiem Lake. The painting has been registered in the Guinness Book of Vietnam Records.

Not only does it preserve many valuable artifacts, images, and remedies, the museum is also considered as a place with many beautiful and impressive layouts. Therefore, nowadays many tourists, especially young people, often come to learn, research and save nostalgic photos and pride in Vietnamese traditional medicine.

Towards the 68th anniversary of Vietnam Doctors' Day on February 27, we invite you to watch the next episode of the program of "I love Binh Duong" to discover the unique features, and learn the historical values, better understand the Vietnamese medical industry as well as the core humanities that the medicine profession brings. The program, implemented by Binh Duong Newspaper, will be broadcast at 6 AM on Sunday (February 26) at the address of www.baobinhduong.vn.

Reported by Minh Hieu – Translated by Vi Bao