title: [Buddhist influences on Sun Simiao's precious prescriptions for emergency].
abstract: Living in a period when the Buddhism was quite flourishing, Sun had a close contact with the monk Dao Xuan, the founder of Nanshan Sect Buddhism. Sun's Quian jin fang adopted all schools including Buddhism, evidenced by the following 3 aspects: 1) Direct Buddhist influence, mainly on medical morality; 2) Indian medicine coming together with Buddhism, including the theory of "four - element theory", the conception of all matters are medicines, pills of all disorders, recipes, and keep - fit art. Buddhism acts as a carrier here; 3) the achievements of treatment for beriberi by monks. However, Buddhist influence was far inferior to Taoism as far as Sun's work is concerned.
authors.affiliation: China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
mesh_terms: D002016:Buddhism / Q000266:history*; D002681:China; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000266:history; D049690:History, Ancient; D007194:India; D012068:Religion and Medicine