Medieval Chinese Medicine The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts

Name: Medieval Chinese Medicine The Dunhuang Medical Manuscripts
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ISBN: 9780415342957

ISBN-10: 0415342953

ISBN-13: 9780415342957

Edition: 2004

Authors: Vivienne Lo, Christopher Cullen

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Late 20th century advances in Chinese archaeology have now recovered early medical materials to assert that Chinese medical knowledge underwent radical changes at about the same time as classical European medicine. This text analyses these Chinese medical texts from the Middle Ages.

Book details

List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 5/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 480
Size: 6.26" wide x 9.57" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.804



Foreword



Introduction




Manuscripts as sources in the history of Chinese medicine




A general survey of medical works contained in the Dunhuang medical manuscripts




Comments on the problem of transcription in the Dunhuang medical manuscripts




Han bamboo and wooden medical records discovered in military sites from the north-western frontier regions




Mantic texts in their cultural context




Dunhuang iatromantic manuscripts : P. 2856 R[degree] and P. 2675 V[degree]




Love charms among the Dunhuang manuscripts




From prognosis to diagnosis of illness in Tang China : comparison of the Dunhuang manuscript P. 3390 and medical sources



Introduction




Quick and easy Chinese medicine : the Dunhuang moxibustion charts




Tiandi yinyang jiaohuang dalefu and the art of the bedchamber




Daoism and the Dunhuang regimen texts




The Dunhuang manuscripts and pharmacology in medieval China




The three juan edition of Bencao jizhu and excavated sources




Tangye jingfa (canonical methods for brews and decoctions) : a lost text recorded in the Hanshu bibliography




Wing malady as madness in medieval China : some threads from the Dunhuang medical manuscript




A treatment for cardiovascular dysfunction in a Dunhuang medical manuscript




Materia medica



Abstracts of the medical manuscripts from Dunhuang