Chinese history (primitive society period) (series 7)

The origin of the seventh section on medicine

    Medical origin is a long historical process, by numerous factors, the past medical historians has put forward different views, such as medical comes from god, from the holy, medical from medical superstition and medical from animal instinct, medical originated in the human love, from labor, etc, are all healing, and each has according to each have partial. Medical origins, can't be a single element action can explain satisfactory, we think is only the continuous development of factors participate in results.

     A, instinct and medicine

    Medical from animal instinct, some western famous medical historians mostly with this assessment. Chinese scholars have in thousand years ago for the discussion. Tang confrontations book of the levels load, said: "remedies for traditional Chinese medicine, food said tiger arrows; wild boar Chinese qing mud 苨 arrows, driven like mustard; and the pheasant was injured and yellow eagle; birds and beasts worm of esther thing,... who know how of toxins, depends on the"? (tang, the levels of confrontations, on page 7 of carrying series set cost)

    Animals in their life, has overcome pain, protect life instinct, resulting in some self cure, whether these behaviors are behavior born, or acquired it is no doubt, all the facts. People and animals, a survival and protect life instinct. They meet disease and accidental trauma, consciously or unconsciously, to explore and relieve pain, restore health method, is inevitable.

    But we shall see, primitive humans and animals still has fundamentally different. The original human although and animal life same protective instincts, but in the original thinking under guidance, they can observe, thinking, the original experience accumulated from accidental things, found in some of the things that touch. From the unconscious animal instinct transition to the conscious human original such as medical experience, to have real medicine origin. Say higher instincts, and medical stems from the instinct of the instinct, not medical protection act into conscious experience, won't have medical produce.

    Second, practice and medicine

    This century since the 1950s, China maintains, puts forward "labor academic medical" argument, create commonly accepted view becomes an instant.

    Labor in human origin and development process with huge role, it is precisely because the labor, people just gradually got used for treatment of such BianShi, spicules, recognize the medicinal plant, animal and mineral properties, to acquire more medical experience. In some sense, it can be said that Labour created medicine.

     But stressed from labor, medical should not put it, also should not be put absolutes for productive labor, labor limitations on more should not do other factors in medical origin and development processes.

    Third, the creation of medical from saint

    From the holy parlance, medical history in China has broad market. The flintlock earliest people, who draw gossip clarify the fuxi diseasess Daniel, shen nong tasting 100 grass, huangdi neijing, university.hense for elucidating, are republican. D from st is certainly an exaggerated, the original human after long-term experience accumulated medical knowledge, boils down to a few omniscient, even the creation of all-around saints comes from god, for medical exaggerate it does not conform to the historical fact.

     If stripped these legends myth, and to explore the rational core coat, these legends still have rich historical connotation, provide for us to understand the origin of some useful medical basis. Mr. FanWenLan Chinese historians who said: "ancient records great inventions, are called saint. The so-called one's someone, is actually said some inventions, are some of the stage said human evolution." (FanWenLan: China, first Ed) general abridged editions. This is very appropriate. In ancient Chinese legend about SuiRenShi, rockwell, the emperor shen nung and fuxi emperor the story of saint create medicine such as, in fact, ancient different clan group reflects the struggle against disease groups and the practice of medicine of experience and contribution, shennong, huangdi, etc but is synonymous with these clan group, said the medical development have different stages.

     The holy include medical comes from another content, is sure to some of the best in the medical field in medical development characters plays a bigger role in medical experience accumulation process, not only each clan group is unbalanced, a clan group internal different people played the role also have each different. Some of the more attention medicine and creative ability, they are good at summing up the experience, can seek out the more effective drugs and better treatments, thus promoting medical development in plays a more prominent role, is completely accord with historical reality.

     Four, thinking, witchcraft and medicine

     Only scattered medical activities and snippets of medical and health knowledge, also cannot constitute a system of medical system, to form complete medical, must play their thinking and even a preliminary or infallible theoretical exploration's, thinking activity gradually mature is medical development become the necessary conditions of system knowledge.

      In primitive thinking there, because of the natural forces of don't know, and fear, everything is full of mysterious feeling that there exists a supernatural of world domination, become witchcraft the basis for development and mystery of the heaven and the crowd of led to flying all animals and plants of the reproductive worship of the natural objects of worship, and for totem worship, ancestor worship and ghosts worship, and has formed the witchcraft and development of primitive religious.

      Hex gradually consolidating down, have certain of organization form and ceremony, the emergence of a full-time personnel. At the time, wizard become represents the thinking capacity of knowledge and the class. Wu is generated from the late in the primitive society medical hygiene after accumulation of experience. Wizards, and often appear undertake cure function, and they, sometimes in the treatment of disease, and sometimes also execute witchcraft in medical technology, some more focus on medical wizard. The big waste of longitude west overheard, said: "there is lingshan: ten wu since then lift, 100 medicine hence in". The map of longitude west, said: "WuPeng,... all undead from the medicine to fuck." But if the witch doctor exist between contact, concludes that medical originated in the wizard, this is not true.

     Wu is mainly ACTS as the man and supernatural traffic media, is primitive religion, is in essence is theology, with as scientific medical sharpened conflicts. With the development of medical, the struggle between the medical witch the sharp, sorcery is more become the shackles of medical development. The fifth century B.C., the Chinese medical puts forward "letter not letter d" as the witch of six to one kind, the "yellow emperor," said plain question, "said deities person cannot and limited to DE". Is medical get rid of witchcraft, establish their own value symbol.

     Anyhow, medical origin is a long and winding complex process, disease hazards and the original human existence protect yourself, eliminate pain instinct given medical happen to initial power, but people start thinking domination in the activities, they can fight with the disease, the experience accumulated transfer to offspring, and animal simple survival instinct has a qualitative difference. The instinct of the animal can never make its health reflection for medical growth. Productive labor and extensive life practice, deepen people's understanding, also deepen people experience of struggle against disease, make people not only a more in-depth understanding disease, but also provides medical appliance and rich medicine knowledge, enable people to better accumulation medical experience. Human struggle against disease demand and conscious accumulation and dissemination of medical knowledge, is the real source of medical origin, in this process, some attention medicine, be good at summing up medical experience, with creativity of excellent person, play a bigger role. Wu is probably from productive labor, sacrifice and the cultural affairs in the full-time staff, they at that time is engaged in mysterious religious affairs. One part but use of their conditions, with mysterious colorific thinking in under the guidance of medical knowledge, the article makes a systematical summary, and gradually make medical become a specialized occupation. Medical from the witchcraft appear with it began when the struggle, and gradually breaks through its fetters, established its independence, high-road to development.

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