Wushi'er Bingfang
antimalarial properties.[3]
The Wushi'er Bingfang (
lancing and cauterization, but mention neither acupuncture nor moxibustion (cauterization with moxa).[8]
With roughly 9,950 characters, Wushi'er bingfang is the longest of the medical texts that have been found in ancient Chinese tombs.Yinyang and the Five Phases, it has pushed historians to date the more sophisticated Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon) to the first century BCE.[12]
The original manuscript of Wushi'er bingfang is kept at the
See also
Notes
- ^ "Plants & Fungi: Artemisia annua". Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 272.
- ^ Hsu 2006, p. 666.
- ^ Harper 1998, pp. 14–15.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 23.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 24.
- ^ Harper 1998, pp. 24 and 73; Harper 1999, p. 875.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 92.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 23.
- ^ Unschuld & Zheng 2005, pp. 21–22; Lo 2002, pp. xxviii–xxxvii.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 56.
- ^ Sivin 1993, p. 199; Lo 2002, p. xxxii.
- ^ Harper 1998, p. 16.
Bibliography
- Harper, Donald J. (1998), Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts, London and New York: Kegan Paul International, ISBN 0-7103-0582-6.
- Harper, Donald (1999), "Warring States Natural Philosophy and Occult Thought", in Michael Loewe and Edward Shaughnessy (ed.), The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 B.C., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 813–884, ISBN 0-521-47030-7.
- Hsu, Elisabeth (2006), "Reflections on the 'discovery' of the antimalarial qinghao", British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 61 (6): 666–670, PMID 16722826.
- Lo, Vivienne (2002), "Introduction", in Lu Gwei-djen and Joseph Needham (ed.), Celestial Lancets: A History and Rationale of Acupuncture and Moxa, London and New York: Routledge Curzon, pp. xxv–li, ISBN 0-7007-1458-8.
- Sivin, Nathan (1993), "Huang ti nei ching" 黃帝內經, in Michael Loewe (ed.), Early Chinese Texts: a Bibliographical Guide, Berkeley, California: The Society for the Study of Early China AND The Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley, pp. 196–215, ISBN 1-55729-043-1.
- Unschuld, Paul U.; Zheng, Jingsheng (2005), "Manuscripts as sources in the history of Chinese medicine", in Vivienne Lo and Christopher Cullen (ed.), Medieval Chinese medicine: The Dunhuang medical manuscripts, London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon, pp. 19–44, ISBN 0-415-34295-3.
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