Early Chinese Medical Literature

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ancient Chinese medicine
Author_Donald Harper
Breath Cultivation
Breath Magic
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early Chinese medical manuscripts analysis
Early Chinese Medicine
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Eleven Vessels
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excavated manuscripts
facilior
ffi
Han dynasty tombs
Hou Hanshu
Huangdi Neijing
Inguinal Swelling
lectio
Li Xueqin
Ma Jixing
macrobiotic hygiene
Materia Medica
Mawangdui Manuscript
Mawangdui Texts
medical hermeneutics
Medical Manuscripts
Occult Thought
Phonetic Loan
Pig Lard
Pure Liquor
Religious Daoism
Sexual Cultivation
Silk Manuscripts
Tao Hongjing
tit
traditional healing practices
Vessel Theory
vessels
Wen Zhi
Xian Cult
xueqin
Yang Qing
younger

Product details

  • ISBN 9781138968080
  • Weight: 1040g
  • Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 26 Nov 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1998. This study uses the Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts to form a basis for information about early Chinese medical literature. Since the 1970S there has been a succession of manuscript discoveries in late-fourth to second century B.C. tombs in several regions of China, the provinces of Hubei and Hunan being particularly fertile ground for manuscripts. The medical Mawangdui manuscripts are part of a large cache of manuscripts discovered in 1973 in Mawangdui tomb 3, situated in the north-eastern part of the city of Changsha, Hunan.
Translated and edited by Donald Harper

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