Herbology 1 Lecture 1 Flashcards
What is the Latin name for Ma Huang (麻黃)?
Ephedra Herba
What is the Chinese name for Ephedra Herba?
Ma huang
麻黃
Chinese Medicine has its historical roots in which three traditions?
Demonology
Magic Correspondence
Systematic Correspondence
Demonology
Disease caused by evil spirits
Treatment lies in influencing spirit world through incantations, spell, preparation of charms, dances, etc.
Magic Correspondence
Disease Caused by magical relationships among phenomena
Treatment lies in using these magical relationships to one’s own advantage
Example: Using a venomous animal’s enemy to counter its poison
Systematic Correspondence
Disease caused by unhealthy relationships with nature
Treatment lies in establishing balance with nature
Yin/Yang and Five Phases
Earliest findings of medicinal activities
Bones and Tortoise Shells for reading oracles
Shang Dynasty 商
1766-1122 BC
Bones
Connection to Heaven
Writings on bones and shells
Shang Dynasty 商
Wu – Shaman 巫
Gui – Ghost or Ancestor 鬼
Ancestoral worship common among all, but only the King could interpret the oracles
Confucius
孔子
551-479 BCE
Chinese teacher, editor, politician, philsopher of the Spring & Autumn period of Chinese history
Emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity
Lao Zi
老子
Philosopher of ancient China Dao De Jing 道德經 Taoism One of the Three Pure Ones Tai Shang Lao Jun 太上老君
Huang Di
黃帝
Yellow Emperor 2689 BC Nei Jing 內經 Inventions and advances: manufacturing of utensils, building of boats, pestle and mortar, creation of calendar, development of currency Mythical Father of Chinese Medicine
Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classics
黃帝內經
Oldest treatise of internal medicine
2 Parts of Huang Di Nei Jing
黃帝內經
Su Wen (Simple Questions) 素問 Ling Shu (Miraculous Pivot)靈樞
8 Principles
Yin and Yang
Deficiency and Excess
Internal and External
Cold and Hot
Five Phases
Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth
金木水火土
Classic Texts
Ben Cao – Materia Medica 本草
Wu Shi Er Bing Fang – Prescriptions for 52 Ailments 五十二病方
Prescriptions for 52 Ailments
五十二病方
Pharmacy Text unearthed at Ma Wang Dui in 1973
Text itself dates from before 2nd century BCE
Clearly reflects the influence of demonology and magic correspondence on early Chinese Medicine
247 Substances: 2/3 plants; 1/3 animal or mineral
Earliest Chinese record devoted to diseases treated with substances
Shen Nong
神農
2720 BCE
Chinese emperor, physician, reformer who experimented with plants to discover their medicinal values
Was intoxicated over 70 times a day, due to his experimental use of the medicinal substances
Accredited with agricultural advances
Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing
神農本草經
Divine Husbandman’s Classic of the Materia Medicia
365 Chinese medicinals
252 - plant origin
67 - from animals
46 - from minerals
Division of herbs in Sheng Nong Ben Cao Jing
神農本草經
Three Categories:
Superior Category
Intermediate Category
Inferior Category
Superior Category
Cultivating Life
Boost Up
120 Medicines which were considered to be non-toxic and contain invigorating effects to preserve vitality or prolong life
Example: Ginseng (Panax Ginseng)
Intermediate Category
Nourishes constitutional types
120 average medicines.
Used to prevent illness and restore the individual’s vitality
Sometimes can be toxic and should be used carefully for certain ailments
Inferior Category
Expels Diseases
125 inferior medicines that were considered to be toxic with side effects and were specifically used for therapeutic purposes to treat diseases
Zhang Zhong Jing
張仲景
Father/Sage of Herbal Medicine Han Dynasty 150-219 AD Zhang Ji Shang Han Za Bing Lun (Discourse on Fevers and Miscellaneous Illnesses) Dealt with treatment of many febrile conditions Wind-Cold Issues
Shang Han Za Bing Lun
傷寒雜病論
Six parts corresponding to six pairs of meridians:
Tai Yang, Shao Yang, Yang Ming
Tai Yin, Shao Yin, Jue Yin
Discusses diagnosis and treatment methods based on an assessment of the symptoms of different pathological conditions
In Song Dynasty: Split into two books:
Shang Han Lun and Jin Gui Yao Lue
傷寒論 和金貴要略
Shang Han Lun
傷寒論
Treatise on Febrile Diseases or
Treatise on Cold Induced Disorders
Later Han Dynasty 200 AD
Damage from Cold: Cold from outside into body or absence of yang
Yin-Yang disharmony at various stages
About movement of life force throughout the body and how it is connected to the cosmos
Jin Gui Yao Lue
金貴要略
Essential Treasures from the Golden Cabinet
Miscellaneous diseases
Lots of Gyn formulas
Six Channel Theory
Tai Yang Tai Yin
Shao Yang Shao Yin
Yang Ming Jue Yin
太陽, 少陽, 陽明, 太陰, 少陰, 厥陰
Shao Yang – Why use warming and cooling herbs
Pivot around, can go either way, alternating chills and fevers; Chills of tai yang and fever of yang ming
Four Bigs
Big Fever
Big Thirst
Big Sweat
Big Pulse
Four Great Classics for Herbal Medicine
Nei Jing 內經
Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing 神農本草經
Shang Han Lun 傷寒論
Jin Gui Yao Lue 金貴要略
Sun Si Miao
孫思邈
581-682
Child Prodigy
Mastered Chinese Classics by age 20
Well-Known Medical Practioner of Tang Dynasty
Human life is worth a thousand gold bars, with a virtue of one prescription, you can fix it
Compiled Qian Jin Yao Fang 千金要方
(Prescriptions worth a thousand gold for emergencies or precious prescriptions for emergencies)
30 Volumes and 5,300 Prescriptions
Qian Jin Yi Fang 千金異方
(A Supplement to the Essential Prescriptions Worth a thousand Gold or supplement to Precious Prescriptions)
30 Volumes and 2,571 prescriptions
Tang Ben Cao
唐本草
First Official Chinese Pharmacopeia Compiled 7th Century CD 850 Medicinals First illustrated materia medica Tang Materia Medica
Ben Cao Gang Mu
本草綱目
Compendium of the Materia Medica (1590)
1892 Substances
Li Shi Zhen of Ming Dynasty
李時珍
Li Shi Zhen
李時珍
Chinese Physician to the Imperial Medical Academy
Father of Modern Chinese Herbal Medicine
Completed Ben Cao Gang Mu in 1578 本草綱目
more than 2000 drugs and directions for more than 8,000 prescriptions
Wen Bing Xue
溫病學
Warm Disease School of Disease
Heat Pathogen as primary cause of disease
Ming/Qing Dynasty Authors
Four Levels of Disease
Wei 衛
Qi 氣
Ying 營
Xue 血
Wei
衛
Exterior Heat Diseases