Arabic medicine in China : tradition, innovation, and change / Paul D. Buell, Eugene N. Anderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buell, Paul D., author.

Anderson, Eugene Newton, Jr., 1941- author.

Series:

Crossroads - History of Interactions Across the Silk Routes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Materia medica--History--China.

Materia medica.

Medicine, Arab--History--China.

Medicine, Arab.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1005 pages)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

‎Contents

‎Preface

‎Acknowledgements

‎Part 1. Background Orientations

‎Chapter 1. The Great Mongol Information Superhighway

‎Chapter 2. Medical Exchanges and the "Great Mongol Information Superhighway"

‎Chapter 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

‎Chapter 4. Other Medicines, Mainstream and Not, and the HHYF

‎Chapter 5. The HHYF, "Muslim [or West Asian] Medicinal Recipes," Structure and Content

‎Chapter 6. Arabic Medicine of the HHYF: Ancient Origins

‎Chapter 7. Galen

‎Chapter 8. Galen's Competitors

‎Chapter 9. Spread of Greek Medicine, the Arabs

‎Chapter 10. The High Tradition in the Near East and Central Asia

‎Chapter 11. Later Arabic Medicine

‎Chapter 12. Arabic Medicine as a System: Theory and Practice

‎1. Theory

‎2. Practice

‎Chapter 13. Medicine in the Cairo Genizah: Theory and Practice Elsewhere

‎Chapter 14. The Other Medicine in Cairo

‎Chapter 15. A Still Wider World

‎Chapter 16. The Persistence of a Tradition

‎Chapter 17. The Tibetan Connection

‎Chapter 18. "Herbal" Medicine: The Global Context Past and Present

‎Chapter 19. The HHYF as Artifact

‎Chapter 20. World of the Herbal

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

‎Chapter 22. Chinese Medicine in Recent Centuries

‎Part 2. Medicinal Items Mentioned and Used in the HHYF

‎Chapter 23. Introduction

‎1. Listings

‎2. Sources Used and Summarized

‎Chapter 24. The Medicinals

‎1. Herbal

‎2. Animals

‎3. Minerals

‎4. Obscure

‎5. Missing.

‎Chapter 25. Tables and Comparisons

‎1. Foods

‎2. Plant Families Represented in the HHYF

‎3. Places of Origin of Major Medicinal Items

‎4. Plants

‎Chapter 26. Analysis and Comparison

‎1. Unidentified Fungi

‎Part 3. HHYF Translation

‎Chapter 27. Juan 12

‎Chapter 28. Juan 30

‎Chapter 29. Juan 34

‎Chapter 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 of Medical Terms

‎Index of Medicinals and Foods

‎Index of People, Places, and Cultures.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

90-04-44728-8

OCLC:

1240825850