C Y Ji, J Y Wu, L L Liu, K Q Zhang, X L Ge, X Zhai, R R Gao
{"title":"[The Origin and Academic Characteristics of Xujiang School].","authors":"C Y Ji, J Y Wu, L L Liu, K Q Zhang, X L Ge, X Zhai, R R Gao","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20230612-00054","DOIUrl":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20230612-00054","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Xujiang School of acupuncture and moxibustion has a long history with distinctive academic characteristics and regional influence. Xujiang School, originated from Xi Hong in Song Dynasty, is the oldest acupuncture and moxibustion school recorded in Chinese history. Later, it was passed down from family to family for more than ten generations. The tenth generation Xi Xinqing passed it on to Chen Honggang and gradually evolved into a school of acupuncture and moxibustion with regional characteristics and a certain national influence. In terms of academic characteristics, doctors in Xujiang School kept innovating based on the Classics.Its acupuncture and moxibustion academic ideas including reinforcement and reduction , point selection and searching for the primary cause of disease in treatment have had an important impact on contemporary acupuncture in clinic.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 5","pages":"297-300"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71486893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[News report of People's Daily (1949-1979) for TCM practitioners:Changes in the status of TCM groups].","authors":"L Zhang, S H Liang, H L Ren, Y S Duan","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20201028-00170","DOIUrl":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20201028-00170","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The construction and analysis of the topic of traditional Chinese medicine is an important social and cultural landscape since the founding of New China, and media for party afairs is an important field for this process. Authoritative media such as People's Daily expressed respect to TCM practitioners, reflected the national system, urban-rural relations, cultural concepts, etc. behind the development of TCM, and clarified the determination and confidence of the Party and the country to adhere to the development of TCM through its content,specific situations and line of reasoning logic.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 5","pages":"286-291"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71486888","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The Japanese emperors' view of epidemic and medical relief in the 8th-10th centuries].","authors":"Y Zeng, Y Z Xiao","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20230712-00063","DOIUrl":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20230712-00063","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the end of the 7th century, Chinese medicine was widely spread in the upper class of Japanese society, and Japanese emperors developed a medical based view on epidemics. At the beginning of the 8th century, emperors determined to reform by imitated the Tang to build a state ruled by law.They determine the way of TCM to relieve the epidemic in the form of legislation, and used medical measures in outbreaks on many occasions.However, with the spread of smallpox and other epidemics during the Tenpei year, Japan's backward medical level and poor medical resources were unable to cope with the epidemic, and the emperors turned to the epidemic as calamity. From the late 8th century to the end of 10th century, Japanese emperors responded with Buddhist, Shinto, and Confucian measures. Medical relief gradually became obsolete at the national level. But at the individual level of the emperors, they attached great importance to the use of Chinese medicine for epidemic prevention and treatment, in the mid to late 9th century, medical prevention measures were established in the court through legal means.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 5","pages":"268-276"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71486891","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Research on the spreading of <i>Jing Xiao Chan Bao</i>].","authors":"T Wu, X Y Wang","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20220309-00026","DOIUrl":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20220309-00026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><i>Jing Xiao Chan Bao</i>(, Tested Treasures in Obstetrics) written by Zan Yin is the earliest extant book of obstetrics and gynecology in China. It was dispersed after written and reappeard by the late Qing Dynasty. Although widely quoted in later medical books, its spread process is not clear yet. In this paper, we reviewed the process of the book's written and the catalogue of historical records, and analyze the type and scope of articles quoted from this book by the Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties. It can be speculated that the book was lost in the late Song Dynasty and doctors in Yuan and Ming Dynasties have not seen the handed-down masterpiece.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 5","pages":"292-296"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71486889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Developing traditional medical heritage for further achievements in medical history and literature research-Commemorating the establishment of China Institute for History of Medicine and Medical Literature in the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine].","authors":"S J Han, B Tian, S P Dong","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221011-00141","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221011-00141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Institute of Chinese Medical History and Literature in the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine was officially established on May 28, 1982. Its predecessor was the Medical History Research Office in the Chinese Medicine Institute of the Central Institute of Health, the Editorial Office of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and the Theory and Literature Research Office of the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Before that, the Research Office of Chinese Medical History and Literature in the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in 1971. It made remarkable achievements in scientific research, personnel training and discipline construction in terms of medical history and literature. It was upgraded to the Institute with the approval of the Ministry of Health in 1980. After its establishment, the institute has benefited from great achievements.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"214-221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41158711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Medical figures in Wang Ao Ji].","authors":"Y Z Gao, B Tian","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221005-00136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221005-00136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Wang Ao was a famous politician and litterateur in the middle of Ming Dynasty. <i>Wang Ao Ji</i> comprehensively sorts out Wang's works for the first time, and collects all the poems and notes written by himself. A total of 38 physicians were recorded in <i>Wang Ao Ji,</i> among them, Wang Ao had close contacts with many physicians such as Zhou Geng, Zhou Xu'an, Sheng Rubi, Zhang Yangzheng and Chen Chong. Wang Ao and Zhou Geng are both core members of the literary society of Wuzhong, in the capital of Beijing. Wang Ao once wrote an epitaph for Zhou Xu'an, a tablet inscription for Sheng Rubi and a biography for Zhang Yangzheng. And Chen Chong once cured Wang's nephew's diarrhea caused by acne rash.The biographical records of physicians in <i>Wang Ao Ji</i> are highly reliable, and some medical information is the main source of official history and medical history works, which contains important historical value. Relevant contents about medical figures recorded in class of works, local chronicles, genealogy, anthology, notes and other ancient books, to a great extent, enrich biographical data of physicians, which is worth further research.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"233-239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41137049","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Response of the government and people in pandemics in the Tang Dynasty].","authors":"S C Wang","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20211105-00127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20211105-00127","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>It was believed that the Tang Dynasty was a historical period with relatively few pandemics and little impact in the official history records. The reasons for this and the context and the living conditions of people during pandemics should be analysed in depth. This paper examined 49 pandemic outbreaks which seriously influenced on the society of the Tang Dynasty in terms of time and space distribution, historical features, correlation with other disasters, and regional distribution. The paper also analysed the measures taken by the government to deal with pandemics, including sending physicians and herbs, compensating the people, providing prescriptions, and burying dead bodies. This paper summarised the understanding of pandemics in the Tang Dynasty, such as the will of ghosts, the karma, the astrology and the contagion between the patients. It was found that the ways for the people at that time dealt with pandemics, included praying, offering sacrifices, asking for help from Monks and Taoist, and even moving to other safe places. It was also found the dead who were properly buried could give people psychological comfort.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"222-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41138779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[The distribution of musk and river deer in local chronicles in Guizhou].","authors":"A H Hu, Z B Yu","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20220902-00120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20220902-00120","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Some information and records about musk (She, ) and river deer (Zhang, /) can be found in local chronicles or documents in Guizhou. They were taken as the same species in terms of a medicinal animal. The records for their living areas in Guizhou were neither clear nor in detail in the Ming Dynasty, but were specific in the Qing Dynasty and more concise in the period of the Republic of China. The living areas for musk and river deer reduced from the Ming Dynasty to the Republic of China. Such change was believed to be the result of the natural environment and the social factors as well, such as the reclamation of mountain areas in Guizhou, the reduction of forests, and the demand and resulting exorbitant prices that led to excessive hunting.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"195-200"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41164262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Historical review of schistosomiasis prevention and treatment in southern Anhui from 1950 to 1970].","authors":"Y L Cheng, S H Wang, X Lu","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221123-00166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221123-00166","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From 1950 to 1970, under the leadership of the central government, workstations for the prevention and control of schistosomiasis were established in the southern Anhui region. In terms of controlling the source of the disease, light and severe epidemic areas were scientifically divided. By opening new ditches to replace old ones, changing paddy fields to dry fields, and using traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to prevent the intermediate host of schistosomiasis, oncomelania from surviving. By managing the feces from human and animals and controlling the water source, the transmission route of schistosome eggs has been effectively cut off. At the same time, the education of hygiene awareness among susceptible populations were strengthened. In terms of diagnosis, modern physical and biochemical detection were used to improve the accuracy of diagnosis. In terms of treatment, by combining traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine, together with the splenectomy, the cure rates were improved. In the process of preventing and controlling schistosomiasis, the governments of Anhui Province and the southern region of Anhui Province achieved good results, providing useful reference for the prevention and control of other diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"208-213"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41178654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Research and discovery of \"inner GPS\" of brain].","authors":"T T Chen, Z P Li","doi":"10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221214-00177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3760/cma.j.cn112155-20221214-00177","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the 20th century, with the progress of brain science research, scientists have discovered the brain GPS, revealing the mechanism of brain spatial cognition. The discovery process of brain GPS has gone through three stages. In 1971, John O'Keefe discovered the position cells in the hippocampus of the brain, which was the beginning of the research on the GPS in the brain; In 1900, James Rank discovered the head direction cells in the medial entorhinal cortex of the brain, and the research on the GPS in the brain made a breakthrough; In 2005, Edvard I. Moser and his wife discovered grid cells, marking the maturity of the research on GPS in the brain. The discovery of intracerebral GPS not only reveals the spatial cognitive function of the brain at the cellular level, but also provides a theoretical basis for the study of diseases related to the nervous system.</p>","PeriodicalId":35995,"journal":{"name":"Zhonghua yi shi za zhi (Beijing, China : 1980)","volume":"53 4","pages":"251-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41178658","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}