Chinese history (spring and autumn and warring states period) (serial 17)

The third quarter of materia medica achievements and pharmacology bud

Autumn during the warring states period, drug varieties increasing, pharmaceutical knowledge richer. In addition to use single herb pills, but also explore more gout drug compose prescription disease-treating, thus appeared the sprout of pharmacology.

A, knowledge of materia medica

1. The drugs known unearthed

(1) the fuyang of bamboo "all contained in the drugs:

This damage resulting practiced extortion, according to the statistics, a total of identifiable. More than 70 different monographs drugs One of BuLei jade, wood BuLei, insect, animal, fruit BuLei BuLei, fish, vegetables BuLei MiGu BuLei etc.

"All the records of primitive simplicity, such as" very much of the fish and the loess already hemorrhoid also ", "ginger leaves make people endure cold also", these are relatively primitive usage.

(2) the disease from 52 miu contained in the party "of drug 52 damage more because of illness party, it is difficult to know precisely diagnose contained original total. According to statistics, a total of tidy team copied listed drug 247 species. Including 21 kinds of mineral drug grasses medicine, food medicine 51 10 species, wood drugs is 29, fruit drugs, people May 9, earth of medicine 23 species, fish medicine medicine three, insect drugs, implements and articles 16, general term of 30 kinds of medicine DaiKao 10 species, 14 dictionary.

In addition, the no.1 in the han miu objects, also found that many items in cheng fang fuming furnace burner or there are MaoXiang, indicates the ginger, ginger, guangxi and sticks), Ben anthraquinone ((farnesol-type), Chinese prickly ash, Gao this, DuHeng, and employed, etc.

"Everything" and "from 52 to see, that of illness square in the warring states period, has found many drugs, and the sexual flavour function of drugs already had an understanding. "Everything" is the ever found mainly in the books recorded medicine knowledge, but almost all contained in ChanGongNeng drugs, its contents are brief and of primitive simplicity. The illness of 52 square though the clinical treatment were recorded, and carries the unparalleled more drugs, second only to later materia medica monographs the root of Chinese magnoliavine was ranked. The book of expanding every one drug, already has a variety of cure effect than the things a step forward ".

2. Sea classics, "wonderful indeology of drugs such as this book

(1) sea classics: is a about books in the warring states period, the geographical works in narrative mountains region and its products, also recorded the producer of drug, a total of around 100 variety. There are about:

Such as food, the food more force ridiculed for drug; not Food of the descendants of fertility medicine should be; The food served not words without children; the pill The beauty color served hairdressing drug: eat without epidemic disease; Food without big disease; Can BingYi medicine garrison of phytophthora charioteer; The food can kill poisonous medicine; Can royal 100 poison, can cure for (the) poison antidote; Can the insecticidal raised; No sleep, eat food without lying of doping, etc.

In addition, some in this period of the medicine in writing books such as: "tube", "li SAO", "chang's spring rank", "ceremonies.from journal, erh ya" etc., are the different Angle of covering a lot of medicinal plant, animal, mineral, etc.

Second, the sprout of pharmacology

Spring and autumn and warring states period, as medicine knowledge accumulation, gradually transition to use by using unilaterally, and continuously explore complex formula principles and theories, pharmacology bud.

Fuyang bamboo "account of the things there are some compound. Such as "the sheep and in bally, think turtle turtle" share, its sheep vti more the merit of the bud is compound.

The illness of 52 square zhongjings prescriptions 283, such as monographs Long disease square, cure for hemorrhoids fumigation party, etc. helle. From the cases can be seen holding the illness, 52 square "copied a large increase, compound, and dosage form varied, both orally, and there for external use, bath, steaming, inunction, topical, filling the agent is complete.

Lay neijing prescriptions, the theory of plain question: to a theory of "bigger, said:" the Lord thy ZuoJun gentleman, illness, "princes of thy princes shall be made up of, the expanded" also." Say again: "the gentleman a minister two, making small also; gentleman a minister three with five, system of princes; gentleman a three and nine, the large system with". Neijing not, but for prescription formulary embody the principle of theory and formula made excellent compatibility, summed up and summarized have great influence on later generations.

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