Korean Medicine

ABC of Korean Medicine
The Korean medicine, regarding its own culture as the basis, have adopted some of the theoretical knowledge from the Han medicine and integrated it into practical experience. The Korean and Han people have, since ancient time, maintained exchanges in various aspects including the aspect of medicine. With some of the knowledge from Han, Korean people create their unique medicine in practice. The system matures in the course of time as they have proposed, both in theory and in clinic practice, the concept of "Si Xiang theory", initially illustrated in the book, Dong Yi Shou Shi Bao Yuan, which was written by a person named Li Ji Ma in the 19th Century.

Sources of Korean Medicine
There are mainly two sources in the Korean medicine, Han herbs and native Korean herbs.

With plenty of knowledge coming from the Han medicine, Koreans have used many of the Han prescriptions to prevent and treat diseases. One example is that all the 271 herbs mentioned in the Si Xiang medicine come from Han. So are many other books which have adopted Han prescriptions to a more or less degree, like Dong Yi Si Xiang Jin Kui Mi Fang which has selected 1,297 Han herbs, Guidebook of Han Medicine (or Han Fang Yi Xue Zhi Nan) which has written down more than 1,500 prescriptions from Han, Dong Yi Bao Jian which has recorded over 1,400 herbs in 15 categories and Compilation of New Prescriptions (or Zeng Bu Fang Yao He Bian) in which 515 kinds of herbs in 41 categories have been included.

Medicine of native Korean herbs has a long history. Since 1949, work has been done on a large scale in collecting and sifting the medicine of Korean herbs. In Korean prescription, the platycodon root with stewed hen has been helpful for curing gynaecological disease. And pubescent angelica root has been helpful to treat rheumatism. Medicines of this kind have accounted for most part of the Korean therapy. Apart from this, many prescriptions are scattered in the folk. Peucedanum root has been helpful to darken the hair and treat lumbago. And the powder of calcite has helped to stop bleeding and cure external injuries.

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