Chinese Medicine and Culture (Jan 2019)

The Silk Road (丝绸之路) and sources of Chinese medicine expansion: Part 4 – Miscellaneous texts

  • Sean Bradley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/CMAC.CMAC_30_19
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 3
pp. 129 – 131

Abstract

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Medical works and histories provide a general understanding of foreign influence on Chinese medicine, but a variety of miscellaneous texts give a deeper understanding of the details of this interaction. Trade manuals, notes on foreign interactions, archeological discoveries, and religious works all fill in important details on the incorporation of foreign medicines and ideas into Chinese medicine.

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