Chapter 24 Section 2 Japan

The earliest "messenger" of traditional Chinese medicine to Japan should be the alchemist Xu Fu.According to legend, in 219 BC, Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to lead thousands of boys and girls to cross the sea to find the medicine of immortality, and they went east to Fusang (now believed to be Japan), but they never returned. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, medical books such as "Ming Tang Tu" were introduced to Japan, and acupuncture and moxibustion were gradually spread in Japan. Japan's sending of overseas students to my country began in the Sui Dynasty.During the Daye period of Emperor Yangdi of the Sui Dynasty, the Japanese Tuigu Dynasty sent Ono Meizi to China as an envoy, and the accompanying pharmacist Hui Ri and others stayed to study Chinese medicine.Huiri studied in my country for 15 years before returning to China, and then went to Tang Dynasty twice, and brought back medical books such as "On the Origin and Symptoms of Various Diseases" to Japan.In the Tang Dynasty, the Japanese government sent a large number of doctors and monks with envoys to China for further studies, and extensively collected various medical books to bring back.In 701 AD, Japan promulgated the "Dabao Order", in which the medical system, medical officials, and medical education settings were all modeled on the Tang system, and it was stipulated that the teaching of medicine should be based on "Suwen", "Huangdi Acupuncture Classic", "Mingtang Pulse Jue", " TCM classics such as Newly Revised Materia Medica, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and Prescriptions of Thousand Gold are used as teaching materials.In the 8th century AD, Japan came to China to invite eminent monks to teach precepts, and Master Jianzhen, an eminent monk of Daming Temple in Yangzhou, accepted the invitation.Jianzhen spent more than 10 years crossing the east many times. After vicissitudes of life, his eyesight remained unshakable, and finally he succeeded in crossing the sea for the sixth time.The ship brought more than a thousand catties of medicinal materials, some of which are still preserved in the Shosoin of Todaiji Temple in Nara.In addition to promoting Buddhism in Japan, Jianzhen did a lot of work to impart knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. He unreservedly passed on his experience in identifying medicinal materials and treating diseases to Japanese medical monks, and wrote "The Secret Recipe of the Master Jian" Unfortunately, the book has been lost, and only a few empirical prescriptions are included in "Yixin Fang".Japanese doctors respected him as the "ancestor of medicine". Until the Tokugawa period, there were images of Jianzhen printed on Japanese medicine bags, which shows that Jianzhen played an important role in the process of medical exchanges between China and Japan.

In 808 A.D., Emperor Heisei of Japan ordered An Peizhenzhi and Izumo Hirozen to collect national prescriptions, and compiled them with reference to classic medical books of traditional Chinese medicine such as "Suwen", "Yellow Emperor's Acupuncture Classic", "Small Prescriptions" and "Xinxiu Materia Medica" 100 volumes of "The Gathering of the Same Kind" were published.Afterwards, similar medical works appeared continuously, the most influential of which was "Healing Heart Prescription" by Tanba Kolai.This book contains some contents of more than 100 kinds of medical books before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, which is extremely valuable for us to study the lost or incomplete ancient medical books.During the Ming Dynasty, Miki Tashiro of Japan came to China to study medicine. He specialized in studying the medical works of Li Gao and Zhu Zhenheng for 12 years, and became the founder of Japanese research on Li and Zhu's academic thoughts.At the end of Ming Dynasty, it was introduced to Japan.

The Danbo family, a medical family that is very influential in the medical circles of both China and Japan, was originally a descendant of the Liu family of the Han clan in my country.The Tamba family has settled in Japan for more than 900 years and has reproduced for dozens of generations. They have made outstanding contributions to Japan's "Kampo Medicine" and maintained long-term medical exchanges between China and Japan.In the Edo period (AD 1600-1876), Tamba's successors Yuande, Yuanjian, Yuanyin, and Yuanjian from 35 to 37 generations devoted their entire lives to the textual research of Chinese medical prescriptions, and they were representatives of the influential textual research school in Japan.Their works, such as "Su Wen Shi", "Lingshu Shi", "Treatise on Febrile Diseases", "Golden Chamber Commentary", "Medical Books and Tests", etc., are also popular in the medical field of our country. Important academic value is valued.

During the Guangxu and Xuantong years of the Qing Dynasty, my country sent people to Japan for investigation three times and brought back many ancient Chinese medicine books and Kampo medical books. understand. After the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the number of scholars studying Western medicine increased greatly, and Western medicine became the mainstream of Japanese medical research, while the number of scholars studying Chinese medicine decreased relatively.