Arabic Medicine in China: Tradition, Innovation, and Change

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-44579-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 994 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1971 g

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The Huihui Yaofang was an encyclopedia of Near Eastern medicine compiled under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for the benefit of themselves and the then Chinese medical establishments. Some 15% of the work survives, from a Ming Dynasty edition, and is here translated for the first time into English. We extensively introduce the translation with introductions situating it within the history of western and Chinese medicine, and provide critical apparatus for understanding.
We provide accounts of the medicines and foods, with comparisons to other works of the time and to modern folk uses of these medicines in the Middle East. We show that the work is solidly western Asian, specifically derived from Persian-speaking Central Asia, and is adapted to Chinese use in several ways but without losing its western character.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buell, Paul David

Anderson, Eugene N.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Huihui Yaofang ????, “Muslim” or “West Asian Medicinal Recipes” (HHYF), and Its Times and Places and Contentions

Acknowledgements

Part 1 Background Orientations

1 The Great Mongol Information Superhighway

2 Medical Exchanges and the “Great Mongol Information Super Highway”

3 Chinese Medicine, Origins History

1 The Shamanic Substrate

2 Early Chinese Medicine

3 Early Herbals

4 Tang Medicine Rises

5 Song Medicine Gets Complex

6 The Next Stage

7 Summary of Imperial-Era Medicine

8 Chinese Medicine and Chinese Science

9 New Times New Ideas

4 Other Medicines, Mainstream and Not, HHYF etc.

5 The HHYF, “Muslim [or West Asian] Medicinal Recipes,” Structure and Content

6 Arabic Medicine of the HHYF Ancient Origins

7 Galen

8 Galen’s Competitors

9 Spread of Greek Medicine, the Arabs

10 The High Tradition in the Near East and Central Asia

11 Later Arabic Medicine

12 Arabic Medicine as a System: Theory and Practice

1 Theory

2 Practice

13 Medicine in the Cairo Genizah: Theory and Practice Elsewhere

14 The Other Medicine in Cairo

15 A Still Wider World

16 The Persistence of a Tradition

17 The Tibetan Connection

18 “Herbal” Medicine: The Global Context Past and Present

19 The HHYF as Artifact

20 World of the Herbal

21 After the HHYF: Medicine in Later Imperial China, Continuities and Changes

22 Chinese Medicine in Recent Centuries

Part 2 Medicinal Items Mentioned and Used in the HHYF

23 Introduction

1 Listings

2 Sources Used and Summarized

24 The Medicinals

1 Herbal

2 Animals

3 Minerals

4 Obscure

5 Missing

25 Tables and Comparisons

1 Foods

2 Plant Families Represented in the HHYF

3 Places of Origin of Major Medicinal Items

4 Plants

26 Analysis and Comparison

1 Unidentified Fungi

Part 3 Translated Text

27 Juan 12

28 Juan 30

29 Juan 34

30 Juan 19, Lower TOC

Appendix 1: The Non-Chinese Terminology of Medicinals and Medicine

Appendix 2: Major Authorities Cited in the HHYF

Appendix 3: HHYF Foods, Medical and Otherwise

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Paul D. Buell, MA (Chinese 1968), Ph.D. (1977), is part-time instructor, Dept. of History, Anthropology and Philosophy at the University of North Georgia, Dahlonega. Mongolist, Turkologist, Sinologist. Author or co-author of books on medicine, food history and history.

Eugene N. Anderson, Ph.D. (1967), is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He has written several books about Chinese environmental and food history and about ethnobiology.