Ep. 338 | The History of Chinese Medicine (Part 2)

The China History Podcast

Laszlo Montgomery

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As advertised last time in Part 1, we'll take a look at The Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the Huangdi Neijing 黄帝内经, including an explanation of the meridians. I'll also read a few passages from this most important of the ancient medical texts. As we get deeper into the earliest centuries of the development of Chinese medicine you'll gain a sense of how the ancients created a holistic system that encompassed all aspects of the body and spirit and how they sought to maintain harmony and equilibrium throughout. When everything was in balance, a person was healthy and happy. Still, a lot more to come. I hope you'll stick with the series. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back CHP listeners from all over the world.
0:02.7	Lauslle Montgomery here with part two of a series that, well, despite the vast amount of
0:08.7	esoterica surrounding it, we'll explore the history of Chinese medicine.
0:14.0	My deepest thanks for tuning in.
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0:25.9	well knowing they're supporting this long-running family program. Details at the
0:30.3	website at teacup. Media.
0:33.0	After so many hours upon hours of slogging through books, academic papers, documentaries, and whatnot,
0:41.0	I must admit if there's one thing you could say about the ancient physicians of the Joe period.
0:47.0	No one is in agreement with who they were, what they wrote, and in some cases if these people ever lived at all.
0:55.0	Last episode we looked at some of the names of the most famous of these physicians of
1:00.8	Antiquity.
1:02.1	Yeehe, physician her,
1:04.0	Chinue Wren, better known as Bienchez We also looked at
1:08.0	Choenyu I, Huatwa, Jiang Jong Jong Jong Jong Jong Jong-Chinging and Huangfu Me.
1:13.0	These and other physicians were the ones who played the pioneering roles in
1:17.2	transitioning Chinese medicine away from spirits and the supernatural
1:22.0	to something more science and
1:24.3	empirical-based. I also mentioned the Yellow Emperor's Inner Cannon, the Huangdi
1:30.5	Nae-jing and said a few things about that most celebrated of all texts dealing
1:37.1	with TCM, traditional Chinese medicine.
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