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Daoist Medicine – Origins & Development
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Daoist Medicine History<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

Daoist medicine takes the \u300aDao De Jing\u2019s\u300bCentral Dao and \u300aThe Yellow Emperor\u2019s Internal Classic\u300bas foundational principles and applies the Yin-Yang Five Elemental phases theory for differentiation.
\nThe Daoist Medicine was called a divergent of the Yellow Dao. Traditional Chinese Medicine in ancient times was called \u201ca divergent of the Yellow Arts\u201d, thus one can witness the relationship of Traditional Chinese medicine and Daoist Medicine in regards to their source of transmission and their differences in rank and level.<\/p>\n

One should attempt to establish the \u201cDao\u201d in order to explore Chinese pharmacology. For the time being, it is referred to as \u201cDaoist Medicine\u201d, the whereas the common Traditional Chinese Medicine is simply called \u201cChinese Medicine\u201d as a means of differentiation.<\/p>\n

Daoist Medicine\u2019s earliest ancestor is the \u201cshaman\u201d of the remote ages. Later on, wizards were known by the name of \u201cHeavenly Doctors\u201d. Daoist Medicine\u2019s concepts and notions deploy Lao Zi\u2019s \u201cDao\u201d of the\u300aDao De Jing\u300bas their fundamental principle, as the core of their content. Furthermore Daoist Medicine utilizes form and spirit simultaneously for treatment in order to develop newly-emerging methods and strategies. Daoist Medicine can be defined as a Daoist follower in the process of passing on the Dao through medical activities, pursuing long life and cultivating immortality.<\/p>\n

\"Taoist<\/a>Through increasing one\u2019s knowledge and understanding of the universe, life, time, time-space, health and disease,one is capable of shaping a set of tools endowed with mystical characteristics. These tools embody the cultural qualities of the body-mind medical system that originated from the birthplace of Chinese culture, China\u2019s Central Plains.<\/p>\n

The art of healing pertaining to Daoist philosophies and later to Daoist sects gave birth to the common world\u2019s Chinese Medicine, but it is at the same time distinct from it. Daoist Medicine places an even stronger emphasis on the principles of Jing [essence] Qi and Shen [spirit], as well as stressing the doctrines of the Generating and Controlling Cycles of the Five Elemental-Phases. Both Chinese Medicine and Daoist Medicine value holistic differentiation methods of the inter-relationship between humans and the natural world. Differentiation must search for root causes, internal causes and external causes. Providing treatment must also correspond to the holistic regulation and removal of root causes, internal causes and external causes. Qi is the source of Daoist Medicine\u2019s numerous skills varying as ways in which it is applied. If one does not cultivate realization, in that case it is hard to grasp and physically experience its higher mastery and use.<\/p>\n

Anyone desiring Great Medicine ought to know well \u300aThe Simple Questions\u300b, \u300aThe Zhou Yi\u300b, \u300aThe Yellow Emperor\u2019s Acupuncture Classic\u300b, The Palace of Brightness, Stems and Branches Point Selection, the twelve meridians, the three positions and nine indicators, five Zang-organs and six Fu-viscera, interior-exterior acupuncture points, the \u300aMateria Medica\u300b, Zhang Zhong Jing, Bian Que, Hua Tuo, and many other forms\u00a0of remedies and formulae.
\n\"Five<\/a>One also must have an excellent understanding of peoples\u2019 yin and yang fortune through life, each home\u2019s physiognomy, and the \u201cShining Turtle\u2019s Five Omens\u201d. One must be equally proficient in the divination method of the \u201cSix Ren\u201d of the\u300a Zhou Yi\u300b, then one is able to obtain the Great Medicine. Next, one must be well versed in all prescriptions, formulae and methods and ponder deeply about\u00a0their wondrous principles. One must be mindful and scrutinize intensively. Consequently one is able of calling oneself a Daoist healer. One must also read curiously into a wide variety of books. Which ones? If one does not read the five classics, one is unaware of the existence of the Dao of benevolence and righteousness. If one does not read the \u201cThree Histories\u201d, one has no idea of the existence of the matters of past and present. If one does not read \u300aThe Inner Classic\u300b, then one is ignorant of compassion and fondness of giving alms. If one does not read \u300aLao\u300band\u300aZhuang\u300b, one cannot go beyond the mundane body and cannot give free reign to the true body\u2019s movements, thus good and bad fortune will be restrained by fears and taboos.
\nWhen one comes into contact with the path of confusion that means one is alive. There is a physical body, there’s growth, health and death. One should go as far as delving into the secrets of the fall and rise of the five elemental-phases and the \u201cSeven Illuminations of the Heavenly Bodies\u201d [the astronomy of the 28 constellations]. One must equally explore the mysterious abstruseness. If one is capable of completely finishing this study, then there is no obstruction to the \u201cWay of Medicine\u201d, extremely benevolent, extremely beautiful.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the reason why any Daoist studying the Immortal Dao ought to know medicine. Daoists not engaging in the Immortal Dao cannot become Daoist doctors.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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