Vietnam Traditional Medicine Museum

#2月好地方2025 The Vietnam Traditional Medicine Museum, located on a small street in District 10 of Ho Chi Minh City, houses thousands of Vietnamese traditional medicine artifacts and has become a stopover for tourists who like to explore Vietnamese traditional medicine. From the outside, the museum covers an area of ​​only about 600 square meters, but when you walk inside, what comes into view is a large number of rare collections with a long history. The building materials alone are very exquisite. It is reported that the pillars and bricks were taken from an old house that was demolished in Hanoi and transported to Ho Chi Minh City, recreating the architectural model of ancient Vietnamese houses. Every brick, tile and pillar is carefully protected by skilled craftsmen. The museum has a collection of more than 3,000 precious traditional medical objects dating from the Stone Age to the present. Some of these medicinal material processing tools, such as grinding knives and mortars, have a history of 2,500 years. Some rhodium knives come from the hometown of Zen Master Huijing and the famous doctor Li Youzhuo. There are also pestles, mortars, beam scales, printed prescriptions, etc., especially decoction pots and cesium explosives collected from various places such as Ha Dong District, Hanoi City, Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province, and Lai Shao City, Binh Duong Province. In the center of the museum's hall stands an altar dedicated to the two founders of Vietnamese medicine, Hui Jing and Le You Zhuo (the lazy old man on the sea). On both sides hang vermilion lacquered and gold-plated horizontal plaques and couplets that highlight the merits of the famous doctors. On the right is the Vietnamese Famous Doctors' Room, which displays 15 vermilion lacquer and gold-plated paintings of 15 famous Vietnamese traditional medicine doctors from the 13th to 19th centuries. Of note is the woodcarving of "One Hundred Vietnamese Doctors", which engraved with the names of one hundred famous doctors who made significant contributions to Vietnamese traditional medicine from the 12th to the 20th century. The most unique is a shell-inlaid painting that depicts the bustling traditional medicine business in Hanoi's Bac Medicinal Street, Hoan Kiem Lake Ancient Street District, Ho Chi Minh City's Ben Thanh Market, and Hue Ancient Capital. Address: 41 Hoàng Dư Khương, Phường 12, Quận 10, Hồ Chí Minh, Vietnam #VietnamTravel #Ho Chi Minh City