title: [Analytical study on characteristics of medical thinking in the Sui and Tang dynasties].
abstract: The cultural environment of the Sui and Tang dynasties is rather loose, and medical thinking is especially active. The medical thinking of this period has the following characteristics: the thinking of compiling medical books influenced by the idea of Universe Harmony; taking the thinking of stressing human life and health; epistemology of paying attention to practice and perception; methodology with the tendency of analytical and integrative methods; ambivalent viewpoint in ghosts and gods, and destiny.
authors.affiliation: China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100700.
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049691:History, Medieval; D010686:Philosophy, Medical / Q000266:history*