10.3760/cma.j.issn.0255-7053.2017.01.008

Kun ming fang mu (Catalogue of Formulary in Kunming) collected and compiled by the Kunming Medicinal Materials Industry Association in 1939, was first seen in the archives of the Republic of China. All the collected Chinese proprietary medicines were tested by the Yunnan Health Laboratory Office as qualified, and served as a standard for manufacturing products at drugstores of traditional Chinese medicine in Kunming in Republic of China. The book was divided into 14 categories with a total of 82 kinds of proprietary medicines, including their name, composition and quantity. Its classical preparation method, concise name, especially the shown quantities used demonstrated its rather high historical value. Kun ming fang mu has inherited and standardized the ancient prescription and the traditional preparation method, preserved the intangible cultural heritage of traditional Chinese medicine, therefore, it was an important book carried on the past heritage and opened up the future in the history of modern Kunming pharmacy.