Gushang Medical Wine Museum of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop is inherited by Tianjin Darentang Jingwanhong Pharmaceutical from the ancients. The medical wine museum created by Gushang Medical Wine Museum of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop integrates medical wine making, medical wine culture, collection of cultural relics of traditional Chinese medicine, creation of works of art and appreciation and purchasing of visitors. It is the first museum with the theme of medical wine in China.

In the eighth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, the wise men of the past of Darentang Jingwanhong Pharmaceutical made medical wine for the royal family in Beijing Tongrentang Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop. In the first year of the Republic of China, Yue Daren, the 12th generation of successor of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop, founded Tianjin Darentang, and introduced the preparation techniques and recipes of medical wine of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop. In the 1950s and 1960s, the production scale, output and quality of its medical wine production base (the predecessor of Jingwanhong Pharmaceutical) were leading in China, and its products and brand were well known at home and abroad.

Gushang Medical Wine Museum of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop is an authentic inheritor of traditional Chinese medical wine. It inherited the techniques of medical wine made by Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop according to the emperor order, accumulated 300 years of experience in medicinal wine production of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop, and completely inherited the unique process, operating essentials, know-how and other ancestral secret experience and imperial process and recipes for the production of runny paste, plasters and medical wine in the early years as the intangible heritage. The Medical Wine Workshop sticks to the following ancestor's instructions. “Nobody sees the processing, choice and combination of medicinal materials, but the God knows what you have done.” “The raw materials of Chinese herbal medicine are expensive, but we dare not to reduce the amount. The processing is complex, but we dare not to reduce manual labor.” Therefore, it has formed the pharmaceutical characteristics, including "unique recipes, superior materials, exquisite workmanship and significant effect".

The Medical Wine Workshop is ingenious in making wine. For example, tiger bone wine has a unique technology. The tibia of tiger should be fried with sesame oil. “One kind of gel, three kinds of pills and three kinds of ointment" are prepared by using more than 200 prescriptions, such as Refined Tiger Bone Wine Ointment, Leopard Bone Liquid, Tougu Soufeng Pill Powder, Zaizao Pill Powder and Huoluo Pill Powder. One kind of gel refers to tiger bone gel. Three kinds of pills refer to Zaizao Pill, Big Huoluo Pill and Tougu Zhenfeng Pill. Three kinds of ointment refer to Huqian Ointment, Guogong Ointment and Geranium Wilfordii Ointment. The base wine used is Guogong Wine. Guogong Wine is injected into a copper can. And then, one kind of gel, three kinds of pills and three kinds of ointment are added. The copper can is placed into a big copper pot and heated in water until the wine boils. After mixing, the content of the can is sealed with a cap. After three years, the clear liquid in the jar is collected and bottled after being filtered to obtain the medical wine of tiger bone.

The Medical Wine Workshop pays attention to the selection of high-quality materials, processes according the ancient method, and washes and filters for thousands of times. For example, turtle shells are washed with rain and wetted by the autumn dew; the rootlets of Chinese parsnip root are removed; the peduncle of fructus forsythia is removed; the roots and nodes of ephedra are removed; the fluff of corn cervi pantotrichum is burned off with fire of wine; the basal part of stem of ginseng and radix scrophulariae is cut off; pericarpium citri reticulatae viride, frankincense and rhizoma cyperi are fried with vinegar; and radix clematidis and polygonum multiflorum are fried with wine. Therefore, the medical wine produced by the Medical Wine Workshop has no sediment after being placed there for many years, and the color is clear and bright. It is really incomparable.

With more than 300 years of experience in the production of medical wine, the Medical Wine Workshop has cultivated a group of outstanding talents in the production of wine. Cheng Shaokui, a legendary medical wine master, was taught by Ruan Xiaokang, a craftsman of Beijing Tongrentang, in the early years. At the age of 13, he entered Beijing Tongrentang, and obtained the perfect skills of production, identification and maintenance of traditional Chinese medicine. He is especially skilled in the production of medical wine and traditional Chinese medicine ointment. In the 1950s, his monthly salary was more than RMB200, which proved the high value of the Medical Wine Workshop.

Gushang Medical Wine Museum of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop inherited the essence of more than 300 years of experience in the production of medical wine of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop. The authentic recipe and technology of Yue’s Old Herbal Medicine Shop for the production of medicinal wine are used. Superior materials are selected, and the essence of the processing technology is pursued. The medical wine produced has all varieties, a high quality and good curative effect. Among them, Kidney Tonifying Liquor, Ginseng and Corn Cervi Pantotrichum Wine, Three Animal Penis Wine, Rheumatism Liquor, Bone Strengthening and Papaya Wine, Guogong Wine, Zhuifeng Huoluo Wine, Cortex Acanthopanacis Wine, Oriental Wormwood Wine and other varieties are sold all over the world.

Gushang Medical Wine Museum

Address: No.20, Daming Road, Xiqing District, Tianjin, China
Tel: (+86) 022-27795500