Yunnan Baiyao---100 years of Tears and Blood

The Chinese Army defeated the enemy during the Battle of Taierzhuang in March 1938. In one group of people of Chinese Army, there is an army unit come from Yunnan Province, which surprized people a lot. They fight bravely with France-style steel helmet on head and shear-openning cloth shoes on foot. They brought with a little bottle of white powder. When they were injured, no matter how heavily they wounded, they would ate some of these white powder and put some on the wound as they could move. Then they would go back to the battlefield again. This is QuHuanzhang Baibaodan which was called as Holy Healing Powder, that is the forerunner of Yunnan Baiyao.

During the Battle of Taierzhuang, the Yunnan Army not only won a high reputation, but also enabled the QuHuanzhang Baibaodan become very famous. The overall output of Baibaodan(Yunnan Baiyao) had been up to 400 thousand bottles because of the war.

However, danger is next neighbour to security . Afterwards in order to contribute to the War of Resistance against Japan, the Central Committee of Kuomintang Jiao Yitang invited Qu Huanzhang to Chongqing in the name of the head of Central State Medical Center. When two months passed after his arrival in Chongqing, the sad news came that Qu Huangzhang passed away due to illness.
According to the rumor of that time, Jiao Yitang asked Qu Huangzhang to hold a post in State Medical Center in Chongqing. At the same time, he also ordered Qu Huangzhang to hand over the secret reciep of Baiyao.Jiao Yitang wanted to produce Baiyao in Chinese Pharmaceutical Factory which was privately hold by himself. Because of his refusal, Qu Huanzhang was put under house arrest by Jiao Yitang. Finaly Qu died on hunger strike.

After liberation of China, the descedant of Qu Huangzhang donated the secret reciep to the Peoople’s government on there own initiative,which made a great flutter to draw lots of attention. Baibaodan Medicine was renamed as Yunnan Baiyao by Kunming Pharmaceutical Factory in 1956, which was put in mass production. Even now the secret reciep of Yunnan Baiyao is still a state-level and high-degree confidentiality.