Chinese history (primitive society period) (serial 6)

The 6th medical technology creation and invention

One, the origin of the acupuncture therapy

    Acupuncture origin someone thought earlier than drugs, this conclusion may be a kind of subjective imagine inference, so it is difficult to have the exact basis. Needle or moxibustion medical method, all need with medical tools, and be thorn moxibustion personal certain parts of the more difficult to drugs, it should be said that the accumulation of knowledge. The development of acupuncture tools, there are broadly such a process, namely BianShi - pro stone - pro - (salty) - needle shows. So, then the development of its quality improvement by BianShi and stone like MuCi bamboo needle, needle and skeletal spicules, bronze needle, iron needles, golden needle... Etc. BianShi in ancient not only used to stab disease, and for surgical suppurative infection of the cut open pus more likely. GuoPu note the chin, the "overheard the dongshan said:" such a stone for such a needle, governance carbuncle swollen person." HaoYiHang think "qing dynasty Bian words such as the mistake, can Bian needle is also" for shuo wen jie zi "note:" Bian to stone thorn disease also." Visible, BianShi in ancient usefulness, one is put to suppurative infection of the femur; One is the stone thorn disease, may include the acupuncture therapy, acupuncture.

     Modern scholars mostly think BianShi for the matrix, then acupuncture needle originated in BianShi should be reasonable. This not only from documented find many basis, in excavates of primitive society, there were many neolithic site BianShi exist, our archaeological excavations of primitive society, BianShi, stone, bronze needle, needle spicules more and more, many shapes, vaguely similar to discuss the origin of acupuncture and moxibustion added precious material. As for the traditional views, such as "the road" FuYi history of nine needle "... and system. Obviously, that made nine stitches in enacting needle, even later in the BianShi also.the and application, if the story of FuYi system nine needle has its certain authenticity, so FuYi era fairly primitive society about BianShi shedding period, for surgery, acupuncture when at least million years history.

     Acupuncture therapy besides acupuncture outside, still moxibustion therapy, moxibustion origin is very interesting, but from documented and archaeological excavations have failed to get in a definitive proof, so people's research can only out of a kind of reasoning. For example: people think made with YiRong modern wick or ai ai with roasted or the burning, lit the meridians, human body must smoke, which used to treat a disease with fire, elliott, in order to test fire its earliest heal the primitive origins, he thought, with fire, the method of artificial make fire will burn hot pebble iron body, and the heat in the cold iron body one region of pebble for some discomfort more effective experience from the continuous accumulation, therapy, was born. That slowly This corollary although may not be completely accord with actual history, but it is certain scientific reason. The plain question vary therapeutically because theory ", the source of moxibustion in paper has such a paragraph, namely: "north, who... really GaoLing r, wind and sweet taste, and the ice cream. Hide cold food born diseases, its governance with sticks. So 焫 should 焫 meridan, also the coming from the north." Two thousand years ago medical understanding its this is unknown, at least according to its people and the history of mouth such as accounts according to legend. Moxibustion with fire primitive phase began expanding field at, I'm afraid does not have a large deviation.

     Second, the massage and accelerate the guided origins

     The primitive society people's life, production level is low, the condition is poor. In order to survive, the man and the beast struggle, the struggle between for tribal clans and bad environment, trauma, rheumatic diseases caused by the wind cold dampness, joint polio-free, etc, it is the primitive society people of common diseases. To this, and ancestors gradually accumulate experience, produce resist and prevent thoughts and measures. For example: "lushi, discussed GuLe in spring and autumn of primitive song said:" yesterday TaoTang when beginning, Yin Zhan product fell and more sluggish, the waterway congestion, not its original, trends in the east, yu e muscles poor, so does not reach the dance to promote the." It really describe the ancient people living in dark, damp environment, so causing much of the poor with bones and muscles of the joint disease polio-free, the wind cold dampness. People with dance movement, and prevent the common diseases. Massage, guided by both used to remove people caused by excessive physical except muscle rigidity, joint strain, also used to fight or beast control for fighting the war caused damage and dislocated joint fold, people from the initial injury the blind, not consciously to self-conscious understanding, massage, guiding, accelerate the born from that gradually.

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