Medicine Historiographic Research on the Origin of Medical Nature of Chinese Materia Medica and the Evolution of its Four-Qi Theory
This thesis studies on the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).It focus on the origin of nature of Chinese Medicinal herbs and the evolution of'Four Qi'(cold,heat,warm, cool,etc.) theory in ancient Bencao literature.However, the word'Qi'had both broad and narrow senses, which resulted in complicated meanings in the history, this study focused on the narrow sense, ...