中国云南省丽江地区民族医药网站
Website of Ethnomedicine in Lijiang, Yunnan Province, China
李铭哲 Mingzhe Li
上海市世外中学12年级学生
Hi! This is Mingzhe Li, currently an IBDP 12th grader studying at Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy.
缘起：一次改变认知的旅程
Origin: A Journey That Inspired Me
2024年7月，我在云南丽江玉龙雪山脚下的纳西村落，遇见了掌握独特医术却无合法行医资格的民族医生。这些医者能用草药治愈疑难杂症，却因通不过西医标准的执照考试无法合法执业；纳西医药也未像藏医、蒙医那样纳入医保，面临“医者老龄化、传承断层、知识失传”的三重危机。
In July 2024, I met barefoot doctors in Naxi villages at the foot of Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Lijiang, Yunnan. These ethnomedical healers mastered unique herbal remedies and medical skills, yet they failed to obtain legal practice qualifications because they couldn’t pass the license exam based on modern medicine standards. Moreover, Naxi medicine, unlike Tibetan and Mongolian medicine, was not included in medical insurance, facing a triple crisis of “aging practitioners, inheritance gap, and loss of knowledge”.
我的使命
My Mission
基于对纳西族传统医药濒危现状的关注，我致力于搭建传统智慧与现代社会的桥梁：我搭建了纳西医药宣传网站，建立可检索的草药数据库，实现知识数字化保存，让更多人了解纳西医药的价值，希望在系统性保护东巴医药千年知识体系的同时，让这些能解决实际健康需求的传统疗法获得合法地位与广泛认可，最终实现纳西医药的活态传承与可持续发展。
Concerned for the endangered status quo of Naxi traditional medicine, I devoted myself to bridging traditional wisdom and modern society. I built a Naxi medicine website and created a searchable herbal database to digitally preserve this knowledge and help more people understand its value. While systematically protecting the millennia-old medical system, I also strive to help these traditional therapies—capable of addressing real health issues—gain legal recognition and broader acceptance, ultimately achieving the living inheritance and sustainable development of Naxi medicine.
