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The Transmission of Foreign Medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of Haiyao Bencao

The Transmission of Foreign Medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of Haiyao... The importance of cultural exchange along the Silk Routes to thecosmopolitan identity of High Tang culture has long been acknowledged. Thispaper develops that understanding for the medical context by examining theHaiyao bencao 海瑶本草 (Overseas Pharmacopoeia), a specialistmateria medica work made up of foreign remedies. With adeeper understanding of the sociocultural and religious context within which itsauthor, Li Xun 李恂), a Persian born in China, worked we can begin to build avivid picture of the background against which foreign medicines arrived from theWestern regions to Medieval China. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Asian Medicine Brill

The Transmission of Foreign Medicine via the Silk Roads in Medieval China: A Case Study of Haiyao Bencao

Ming, Chen
Asian Medicine , Volume 3 (2): 24 – Oct 16, 2007
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1573-420X
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10.1163/157342008X307866
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Abstract

The importance of cultural exchange along the Silk Routes to thecosmopolitan identity of High Tang culture has long been acknowledged. Thispaper develops that understanding for the medical context by examining theHaiyao bencao 海瑶本草 (Overseas Pharmacopoeia), a specialistmateria medica work made up of foreign remedies. With adeeper understanding of the sociocultural and religious context within which itsauthor, Li Xun 李恂), a Persian born in China, worked we can begin to build avivid picture of the background against which foreign medicines arrived from theWestern regions to Medieval China.

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Asian Medicine – Brill

Published: Oct 16, 2007

Keywords: MATERIA MEDICA; LI XUN; CHINESE; HAIYAO BENCAO; TANG; PERSIAN

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