Journal of the Korean Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics (대한한의정보학회지)

The Korea Institute of Oriental Medical Informatics (대한한의정보학회)
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A Study on "Hyang Yak Gu Geup Bang"

향약구급방(鄕藥救急方)에 대한 연구

  • Nyeong, Ok-Chung (Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, Joo-Tae (Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Lee, Hyun-Jeong (Dept. of Classics, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Kim, Sang-Un (Dept. of Classics, College of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Lee, Si-Hyeong (Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University) ;
  • Keum, Kyung-Soo (Graduate School of Oriental Medicine, Wonkwang University)
  • 녕옥청 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원) ;
  • 김주태 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원) ;
  • 이현정 (원광대학교 한의과대학 원전학교실) ;
  • 김상운 (원광대학교 한의과대학 원전학교실) ;
  • 이시형 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원) ;
  • 금경수 (원광대학교 한의학전문대학원)
  • Received : 2011.05.19
  • Accepted : 2011.06.11
  • Published : 2011.06.24
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Abstract

Characteristics Regarding Xiang Yao (Hyang Yag) Jiu Ji Fang Life Saving Local Botanical prescriptions in Medical Research Xiang Yao Jiu Ji Fang is Korea's most ancient extant medical manuscript. It was first published between 1232 and 1251 during the Goguryeo period (Gao Zong) by the (Jianghuadao Da Cang Du Jian) Great Storage Depository Under Capital Supervision. The entire work is divided into three scrolls named the front, middle and back parts. There is also an appendix titled Fangzhong Xiang Yao Mu Cao Bu 'Catalogue of Medicines in the Local Botanicals prescriptions' in one volume. The contents comprise discussion of internal medicine diseases, external medicine diseases, commentaries on sexually transmitted diseases, diseases caused by parasites and bugs, diseases of the five orifices, gynecological diseases and pediatric diseases, in all totaling fifty three types of disease. The prescriptions record 180 types of xiangyao or hyang yag-local botanicals representing the beginning of an independent Korean path of development. Owing to the development during the Goguryeo period of medical material left to us by history, investigation and research in the area of hyang yag local botanicals has bequeathed us methods used in the contemporary period. Through the related comprehensive annotated explanatory notes and documents, much analysis and discussion is taking shape.

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