Sun Simiao

Sun simiao (Chinese孙思邈, Pinyin Sun Sīmiǎo also: Sun Si Miao, Sun Si Miao and Sun Ssu- Miao, * 581, † 682 ) was in the County of Yao (today the city of Tongchuan ), the Chinese province of Shanxi born. He was in his lifetime a famous physician and scholar of religion ( era of the Tang Dynasty ), whose works have survived until today.

It is reported that he has already been able texts with thousands of words noted at the age of seven years to a day; later he studied Buddhism, Confucianism, and partly also the Daoism. His studies of medicine and religion, he is, so tradition has it, have not stopped despite repeated offers a high position at the imperial court. His competence and his medical practice the common people earned him the nickname " King of Medicine " (药王, Yaowang ). His openness in dealing with other cultures distinguished him from the Chinese doctors of that time; such study in Korea, Japan and India have survived. His 13 points in the treatment of mental illness are also still use today.

Works

  • Qian Jin Yao Fang Chinese千金 要 方(Eng. prescriptions that are worth a thousand gold pieces ) - 652 AD and Qian Jin Yi Fang Chinese千金 翼 方, an addendum to the essential recipes.
  • Also Hǎi Yin Jing Wei Chinese银海 精微(Eng. Major subtleties on the silver sea level) - is attributed to him. A comprehensive book on ophthalmology that time in China, including a medical history part of going back to the 2nd millennium BC. The book is now fully translated into English.
  • Yang Zhen Zhong Fang ( dt -preserving and restorative methods coitus )
  • Tai Qing Dan Jing Jao Jue (Eng. important knowledge of the classics of the great truth )
  • Lao Zi Zhu (Eng. remarks about Lao Zi)

Published yet in later years other authors under his name, in the hope that their works would thus find greater appeal.

Medical innovations

  • Strumatherapie with drug derived from animal thyroid,
  • Night blindness he treated with medicine from animal liver,
  • He catheterized with the stem of a shallot,
  • He drew the first recipe for gunpowder ( sulfur ), which, however, he used medical ( "hidden fire therapy" ),
  • He developed significantly the concept of " shi " points in acupuncture, first described four new acupuncture points and the Meridanumlauf
  • He led in China the treatment of already described at this time beriberi syndrome.

Swell

  • Ophthalmologist
  • Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Physicians of antiquity
  • Chinese
  • Born 581
  • Died 682
  • Man
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