[Medical application of the art of supplication before the Tang dynasty].

Abstract

Ample materials on diseases treated with supplication were seen on excavated texts, medical works from ancient time, and religious works before the Tang dynasty (including Tang dynasty). Since the breaking up of witchcraft from medicine, there are still supplication applied in the treatment and prevention of diseases, including those of internal medicine, external medicine, women's and children's diseases, disease of the sense organs, and infections. There are dual reasons for this phenomena, one being the diseases caused by spirit and ghostss; and the other being certain effectiveness of this art on some diseases not cured by other regular treatments, hence, its acceptance by secular people.

• Authors: Yuan Ding, Jieyun Ding, Ruqing Zhang
• Journal: Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980) (Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi) Vol. 45 Issue 3 Pg. 141-6 (May 2015) ISSN: 0255-7053 [Print] China
• PMID: 26420523 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Historical Article, Journal Article)

Topics

• China
• History, Ancient
• History, Medieval
• Medicine, Chinese Traditional (history)
• Religion and Medicine