China's earliest gen "music therapy"

      Music therapy, refers to music art therapy disease application method. Legend for nuwa harp, fuxi surname, and make shengs spring music and play method, formulate rule. And the use of music cure diseases, early in the warring states period of "wonderful indeology in some records.

     According to "lu shi chun qiu • GuLe contained: 'yesterday of the beginning of pottery, Yin more borderline Zhan product, hysteresis volts but not its original, waterway congestion trends in the east, yu e muscles poor, so does not reach the dance to promote. 'this record reflects the clan commune equivalent of yao end, floods, arousing people donated their muscles generate' poor 'diseases such as. And people responded with a 'dance' to activities to treat this kind of disease limbs. Because at that time, it can be deduced that there has been some simple instruments produce, then the 'dancing' must have been in the accompaniment of instruments. Can think this is our country music and dance people's application the earliest record to treat disease.

      The warring states, qin to some medical application of music therapy to cure disease can have very rich experience. The "yellow emperor • spirit atlas • unfretted piece in existing tastes" unfretted treat diseases recorded. The so-called am, namely: the palace, traders, horn, features, feather five different scales (roughly the music chords respectively quite now the 1, 2, 3, 5, 6). Lake with five zang-organs respectively, namely: liver corner matching characteristics, spleen, heart a lung YiShang, a house, a plume of kidney. Different music, to visceral functions irritability or resolve different. According to the different subject is music melody and rhythm, tone and volume, tone to treat various types of the disease. Modern research has shown, music is able to cure diseases, mainly is music to the human body has two effects:

      One is the physical effect. According to research, the activities of the human body to all sorts of organs, have certain vibration frequency. When human sicken time, organ vibration frequency change even interferences with each other. But music is a regular acoustic vibration, different music have different vibrational frequency. Patients according to own condition, music, elect to listen the corresponding corrective organs may play a role, the vibration frequency and vibration frequency of each organ of harmony between, so as to achieve the purpose of treating;

      2 it is psychological effect. Because of human activities are controlled by the nervous system, so the patient's state of mind for the treatment of how, have very important significance. The wonderful music through human brain limbic system and mesh structure adjustment function, can improve the excitability of nerve cells, make the person's mood improved. Meanwhile, through the music of nerve and nerve fluid adjust, can promote into the body of healthy secretes hormones, enzyme and acetylcholine has physiological activity, which can improve the material all sorts of functions, such as adjusting human body blood circulation, promote the blood circulation, strengthen enterogastric peristalsis, strengthen metabolism, etc.

     As people opposite music heal the deepen understanding, currently in the world, many countries, such as Australia, Japan, India and other music therapy has been extensively. Meanwhile, our country also strengthened the music cure disease research and application. In September 1984, hunan province in China first miu sanatorium first psychological music treatment rooms. In 1985 the therapeutic room and changsha municipal hospital medical equipment factory cooperation and common developed a with the world's advanced level of large-scale multi-functional microcomputer control music surgical instrument. In may, they 19877 again with hunan audio-video publishing house published China's first box recorded music therapy tapes.