Origins of Chinese Medicine
I am posting this for a friend of mine... but I'm also curious to know if anyone out there has more info on the info below... especially a translation on the Methods and Prescriptions for immortality; Qugu-shiqi. (See third link below) Thanks!
I am a fan of the Te-Tao-Ching and have a copy of Robert Henrick's translation of the Ma-wang-tui archeological find. While looking through it, I noticed a peculiar reference to some medical texts found at this burial site. On page xiii, it mentions, "The medical treatises treat such matters as ... the benefits of grain avoidance in diet." The date of the find is 168 BC.
I did some searching and found only a few references to this treatise,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui_Silk_Texts
http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_medicine.html
And see especially, the part D. Methods and Prescriptions for Immortality, 1. Qugu-shiqi (Rejection of Grains and Consumption of Vapors)
Has anyone ever heard of a translation of this text? Has anyone ever heard of any antique commentary on the health benefits of avoiding certain grains or the benefits of using others? I'm not necessarily talking about cases where it has been observed that eating certains grains make people sick....
x-posted to: Anthropologist, Archaeo_girls
I am a fan of the Te-Tao-Ching and have a copy of Robert Henrick's translation of the Ma-wang-tui archeological find. While looking through it, I noticed a peculiar reference to some medical texts found at this burial site. On page xiii, it mentions, "The medical treatises treat such matters as ... the benefits of grain avoidance in diet." The date of the find is 168 BC.
I did some searching and found only a few references to this treatise,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mawangdui_Silk_Texts
http://www.logoi.com/notes/chinese_medicine.html
And see especially, the part D. Methods and Prescriptions for Immortality, 1. Qugu-shiqi (Rejection of Grains and Consumption of Vapors)
Has anyone ever heard of a translation of this text? Has anyone ever heard of any antique commentary on the health benefits of avoiding certain grains or the benefits of using others? I'm not necessarily talking about cases where it has been observed that eating certains grains make people sick....
x-posted to: Anthropologist, Archaeo_girls