Discussion On Formation And Development Of Ba Gui Medicine In Jin-tang Dynasties

Ba Gui is a synonym for GuangXi province, while Ba Gui Medicine indicates related traditional medical researches within this region which involve Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and Ethnomedicine, etc.Originated from the ancient times, Ba Gui Medicine owns a long history and tremendous glorious achievements. During Jin-Tang Dynasties, advanced ideology and culture along with scientific technologies had been introduced into Ba Gui area constantly whereby the whole society was booming and developed widely. Intense medical requirements subserved propagation and popularization of TCM associated with Ba Gui Medicine study greatly.Previous discussions on Ba Gui Medicine considered national medicine more but apparently ignored its colorful conventional practice. This paper is aimed at determining concept and connotation of Ba Gui Medicine by multidisciplinary approaches such as history, philology, sociology, archeology, ethnology, theories of schools of TCM, Traditional Chinese drugs, TCM, comparative science and so on as well as sorting out its history from the remote antiquity to Jin-tang period, especially for the production and evolution of Ba Gui Medicine in Jin-tang time, not only uncovering the fundamental principles but also accounting for its genesis, occurrence and formation, investigating the symbols and accomplishments, academic features and historical role of this kind of medicine so as to enlighten scholars in ways of manifesting its long standing history, splendid outcomes and specific system.Taken its source from the old times and experienced long time sedimentation in Xia to Zhanguo period, Ba Gui Medicine was finally come into being in Jin-tang time after budding from Qin to Sanguo Dynasties. Various causes present during the development process of a sort of medicine, for Ba Gui Medicine, natural geography environment, input and progress of TCM, a great quantity increase of migrates moved toward south district, unique history and culture, ancestors' practice and explorations explained its procedure of formation. In Jin-tang Dynasties, experts of Ba Gui Medicine sprung out continuously, accomplished with publishing of relevant work one after another, Ba Gui diseases and managements system had been established initially, meanwhile, represented by poison theory, Ba Gui pharmacology popularized silently which marked that the Ba Gui Medicine had been build up. There were three characteristics inside the academy, including changing therapeutic method according to different regions and seasons if only it fit for the patients'status which combined district features, nationality and convention together. Ba Gui Medicine in Jin-tang Dynasties created fantastic therapeutic theory with superiority by turns of history and reality, absorbed accomplishments all around China, enriched TCM still expanded it, thus became a model that fused TCM and National Medicine profoundly and achieved illustrious historical position and impact.In a word, Ba Gui Medicine inherited essence of both the remote old times and Qin-han Dynasties, taking shape in prosperous Jin-tang period, it assumed responsibility of resolving painful diseases within this region for the people. As a kind of medicine came from Zhongyuan academic circle, picks were converged extensively, brave executive and creation suggested Ba Gui humanism spirit and medical practice. Assembled area speciality, nationality and tradition, definitely Ba Gui Medicine is a regional medicine full of distinctive characteristics and advantages.