Why is the price of ancient medicine so high
I. Further loss of life: a “lonely block” in the text
There are fewer than a thousand medical records in the present full-life generation, of which only about 120 are in the song won magazine, which is located in institutions such as the national library, the shanghai library and the jingjia library of japan. According to china's general list of chinese medical doctors, there are 13,455 ancient chinese medical practitioners in the country, but more than 28,000 different versions of the same book are available, of which ming gai-kyung made up less than 7 per cent of the total. In the case of the government of the people's republic of china and the government of japan, for example, north song's first book was lost, and there were only two books in the world — one of the chinese national library and the other of the japanese inner house, which in 2019 sold three copies of the remaining volumes at a central auction in tokyo at a price of rmb 4. 27 million. This physical scarcity is not man-made, but the result of natural phase-out following warlord, mosaic, water immersion and recent paper acidification decay. In the middle and later stages of the generation, although the sculptor technology has matured, the printing of medical books is generally controlled within 100 departments, and is available for internal circulation within the official pharmacy or the family, without access to the mass publishing system。
Text value: non-replaceable raw medical evidence
The ancient medicine book contains a chain of clinical experience that modern medicine can't reproduce. The formulation of “mixed musk” contained in volume iv of the puccine treaty, which expressly requires “the production of musk, tan, hand-strangling, finger-strangulation, micro seepage oil”, corresponds with the high levels of muskamine (2. 1-2. 8 per cent) in the sichuan swarms confirmed by contemporary gc-ms tests, and the lack of such biological markers for synthetic muskone. According to a study published in 2021 by nature commissions, the cinnamon ion is 37 per cent more likely to be soluble than usual, as a result of the recovery of cinnamon glycerine-grass soup from the leftover of tang's typhoid version (p. 3287), which directly affects the stability of the square target towards the myocardial membrane. Such discrepancies could not be eliminated through the adoption of the world survey and must rely on the original version for empirical traceability. The national central medicine administration's specialized programme for the protection of the antiquities (2021-2035) lists 387 medical records as “first-degree protection literature”, based on the empirical value of the details of their prescription doses, artillery terms, indications of the origin of the drug, etc。
Iii. Framed process: cultural properties of the material carrier itself
The golden mausoleum (1593) of the ancient ancient cologne of the sudnaya, which was specially designed for cotton linen paper, stabilized at 120:1 ph in length between 6. 8 and 7. 2, which could be preserved by accelerated aging tests for over 600 years; and the muscular mackerel, which had acidity ph < 5. 0 in 300 years. In 2022, the documentation and intelligence centre of the chinese academy of sciences conducted a paper test of 32 existing medical records, showing that the average fibre crystallity index of song yuanmoto was 58. 3 per cent, significantly higher than the figure of 41. 7 per cent. In addition, the ancient frame itself constitutes an independent process system: butterflies are required to accurately control the temperature of slurry paste paste pastry (65 ±2 °c), with an error of less than 0. 3 mm at the radians of the pack-backed ridge, or otherwise affect overturn durability. As a result of the restoration of the archives at the palace house, the restoration of a book containing a collection of traditional materials from the capital of the medical monument, the royal palace, required the transfer of 17 traditional materials, which took 437 working hours, and the cost of repairing a single book had exceeded market estimates by 35 per cent. The non-replicability of this material conveys the identity of the ancient pharmacological book as a triad of literature, material and technological history。
Legal and liquidity controls: structural premiums resulting from compliance
Article 2 of the law of the people's republic of china on the protection of cultural objects explicitly includes “antiquities published before 1911” in the category of movable cultural objects; the new revision of the antiquities classification standard (wh/t 85-2023) of 2023 provides for automatic promotion to the first class of classification for anyone who has hand-held school entries, family areas or special collections. This means that, during the calendar year of the year, the sichuan shigezu tsui (with the author's zhumir school) belonged to the first class of cultural objects, and that the exhibition was prohibited from entering the country and was only allowed to be traded under special conditions in state-owned museums. According to beijing's 2023 autumn data, the average trade price of medical personnel eligible for first-degree materials is 127,000 yuan per page, more than 70 times that of the average plain book (1,800 yuan per page). According to a 2024 circular from the general customs administration, in the last three years, out of the total number of illegal departures, 41 per cent were medical, mainly to private collections in the kansai region of japan — a constraint on cross-border movements that further reduced the supply elasticity of the legal market。
