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Bookmark or Share- Traditional Chinese Medicine - National Library of MedicineTraditional Chinese medicine understood the body in energy, or chi, that passes through channels called meridians and connect to the body’s organs and functions. This model of the body is not concerned with anatomy in the way that Western medicine is. Though, in the 1930s a series of anatomical posters produced by the Shanghai Xueyou Books ...
- Traditional Chinese Medicine - National Library of MedicineHuang Ti (黃帝/黄帝): the Yellow Emperor. Huang Ti (黃帝/黄帝), drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987. To this legendary emperor is attributed the earliest known Chinese medical writing, Huang-ti Nei ching (The Canon of Internal Medicine).
- Traditional Chinese Medicine - National Library of MedicineRegarded as one of the great physicians of the Han dynasty (206 BC-220 AD), the most glorious period in Chinese medical history, Chang Chung-ching (神農) wrote 校正傷寒論 or Shang han lun (Treatise on Colds and Fevers). This work had a profound influence on Chinese medicine and is considered the most important medical classic after the ...
- Traditional Chinese Medicine - National Library of MedicineShen Nung (神農): the Divine Husbandman. Shen Nung (神農), drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987. Considered to be the father of Chinese agriculture, this legendary emperor taught his people how to cultivate grains as food, to avoid killing animals.
- Traditional Chinese Medicine - National Library of MedicineChinese medicine seems to have reached its peak during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) when Li Shih-chen 李時珍 wrote his Pen ts'ao kang mu (The Great Herbal). This great pharmacopoeia, which summarizes what was known of herbal medicine up to the late 16th century, describes in detail more than 1800 plants, animal substances, minerals, and ...
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