Author(s)

Yanping Luo^1*, Quan Zhao², Yirong Gan³, Xiaowei He⁴, Xin Huang⁵, Li Wu⁶, Yuan Yu^7#

¹First Clinical Medical College, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
²Department of Anorectal Surgery, Fangchenggang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fangchenggang, China.
³Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Fangchenggang Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fangchenggang, China.
⁴Zhuang Medical College, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
⁵Ren Ai Medical Branch, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
⁶Basic Medical Science College, Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.
⁷Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi University of Chinese Medicine, Nanning, China.

In a broad sense, ethnic medicine includes Han traditional Chinese medicine, folk medicine and ethnic minority medicine; ethnic medicine in a narrow sense refers to ethnic minority medicine. It is a medicine developed by ethnic minorities in order to survive and reproduce and in the process of fighting diseases. Culture, based on its own language, life experience and cultural traditions, has its own understanding and theoretical system of disease naming, etiology and pathogenesis, treatment principles and treatment methods, which is a major feature of my country’s medical care. Among them, ethnic medicine has unique advantages and good clinical efficacy in the prevention and treatment of cholelithiasis. Therefore, this paper focuses on summarizing the characteristic theories and diagnosis and treatment experience of Tibetan medicine, Mongolian medicine, Miao medicine, Yao medicine, and Beijing medicine in ethnic medicine by sorting out and summarizing the relevant materials in this regard, so as to provide new ideas for improving the treatment of cholelithiasis and enriching clinical drug selection.

Ethnic Medicine, Cholelithiasis, Review

Luo, Y. , Zhao, Q. , Gan, Y. , He, X. , Huang, X. , Wu, L. and Yu, Y. (2023) Research Progress of Ethnic Medicine in the Treatment of Cholelithiasis. Open Journal of Gastroenterology, 13, 359-368. doi: 10.4236/ojgas.2023.1311033.