炭药在我国应用,已有两千多年的历史了,在春秋战国时期成书的《黄帝内经》中就有“燔治左发角”的记载。燔为焚烧、烤之意,意即我们今天临床上常用的血余炭。在书中对为何要制成炭则未加论述,但这说明我们祖先应用炭药前应在春秋战国时期以前。随着时代的前进,科学水平的不断提高,人们对炭药的认识也不断深化,炭药品种也不断增多,到了明代,李时珍所写的《本草纲目》中,收载制成炭的药,烧研成灰的药,据本人不完全统计就达一百多种;就拿1984年出版的全国高等医药院校《中草药 The application of charcoal medicine in our country has a history of more than 2,000 years. In the “Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic” written in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, there is a record of “Zizhi left-handed corner”. The meaning of incineration and roasting means that we are commonly used in clinical blood charcoal. In the book, there is no discussion about why carbon is to be made, but this shows that our ancestors should use carbon medicine before the Spring, Autumn and Warring States period. With the advancement of the times and the continuous improvement of the scientific level, people’s understanding of charcoal drugs has been continuously deepened, and the variety of charcoal drugs has also been continuously increasing. In the “Compendium of Materia Medica” written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, the drugs used to make charcoal were included. There are more than one hundred kinds of medicines that are burned and researched into ash. According to my incomplete statistics, there are more than one hundred;