title: [Medical application of the art of supplication before the Tang dynasty].
abstract: Ample materials on diseases treated with supplication were seen on excavated texts, medical works from ancient time, and religious works before the Tang dynasty (including Tang dynasty). Since the breaking up of witchcraft from medicine, there are still supplication applied in the treatment and prevention of diseases, including those of internal medicine, external medicine, women's and children's diseases, disease of the sense organs, and infections. There are dual reasons for this phenomena, one being the diseases caused by spirit and ghostss; and the other being certain effectiveness of this art on some diseases not cured by other regular treatments, hence, its acceptance by secular people.
authors.affiliation: Institute of TCM Literature, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Institute of TCM Literature, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
authors.forename: Jieyun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ding
authors.affiliation: Institute of TCM Literature, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, 201203, China.
authors.forename: Ruqing
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049690:History, Ancient; D049691:History, Medieval; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D012068:Religion and Medicine