Medieval Chinese Medicine
Medieval Chinese medicine influenced modern day medicine, as well as advancing their own knowledge y inventing and discovering. Firstly, Chinese medicine was a system created 3,000 years ago. Through medieval Chinese medicine fatigue and food/herbal causes, atmospheric forces, acupuncture, t’ai chi, and discoveries for disease prevention were all formed. These elements helped shape the medicine used today and helped medieval Chinese medicine tremendously.
Chinese medicine was a system of diagnoses and health-care approaches that have evolved over the past 3,000 years. Additionally, their medicine was mainly based on the “Universe as outlined in the spiritual insights of Daoism.” Doaism, also called Taoism was a philosophical …show more content…
Henry C. Lu said, “In Chinese medicine disease was thought to be caused by disharmonies within the body or between the body and the environment.” The six atmospheric forces as external causes, wind, cold, summer, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire were believed to be a culprit of disease sometimes. In fact, all five atmospheric forces could be transformed into fire to cause disease. Each force had a list of damage it could do to someone's health. Of course, fire was the worst out of the six forces, but all the atmospheric forces were a danger to one’s …show more content…
The Chinese thought the body was filled with energy (chi), if the chi became blocked, it would cause illness and disease. Therefore, T’ai Chi was developed in the 10th century and was used in the medieval period as a way to “help a person’s physical and emotional well-being.” By taking T’ai Chi, a person could improve the flow of chi throughout the body, and it would help their overall health. T’ai Chi was a combination of both yoga and meditation. It took the graceful, flowing postures from yoga and the breathing exercises from meditation to create this art. In classes the student performs different forms and poses, each having a different level of intensity and focus. In fact, the poses that made the forms, sometimes had descriptive and visual names, showing how detailed the Chinese were when creating this art. T’ai Chi was a great way to improve strength and flexibility as well as improving health. In conclusion, T’ai Chi was used throughout the medieval period as a way to prevent illness and disease by taking a martial
Medieval Chinese medicine influenced modern day medicine, as well as advancing their own knowledge y inventing and discovering. Firstly, Chinese medicine was a system created 3,000 years ago. Through medieval Chinese medicine fatigue and food/herbal causes, atmospheric forces, acupuncture, t’ai chi, and discoveries for disease prevention were all formed. These elements helped shape the medicine used today and helped medieval Chinese medicine tremendously.
Chinese medicine was a system of diagnoses and health-care approaches that have evolved over the past 3,000 years. Additionally, their medicine was mainly based on the “Universe as outlined in the spiritual insights of Daoism.” Doaism, also called Taoism was a philosophical …show more content…
Henry C. Lu said, “In Chinese medicine disease was thought to be caused by disharmonies within the body or between the body and the environment.” The six atmospheric forces as external causes, wind, cold, summer, heat, dampness, dryness, and fire were believed to be a culprit of disease sometimes. In fact, all five atmospheric forces could be transformed into fire to cause disease. Each force had a list of damage it could do to someone's health. Of course, fire was the worst out of the six forces, but all the atmospheric forces were a danger to one’s …show more content…
The Chinese thought the body was filled with energy (chi), if the chi became blocked, it would cause illness and disease. Therefore, T’ai Chi was developed in the 10th century and was used in the medieval period as a way to “help a person’s physical and emotional well-being.” By taking T’ai Chi, a person could improve the flow of chi throughout the body, and it would help their overall health. T’ai Chi was a combination of both yoga and meditation. It took the graceful, flowing postures from yoga and the breathing exercises from meditation to create this art. In classes the student performs different forms and poses, each having a different level of intensity and focus. In fact, the poses that made the forms, sometimes had descriptive and visual names, showing how detailed the Chinese were when creating this art. T’ai Chi was a great way to improve strength and flexibility as well as improving health. In conclusion, T’ai Chi was used throughout the medieval period as a way to prevent illness and disease by taking a martial