『醫方類聚․癲癇門』을 통해 본 한의학에서 癎疾의 역사

초록

『Classified Assemblage of Medical Prescriptions(醫方類聚)』 is a valuable material which can explain about historical records of East Asian medicine till 15th century. We can also konw what were regarded as important idea by contemporary doctors of Korean in ‘Chosun’ dynasty. And, Epilepsy is the one of the olddest diseases with a humankind history for a long time. All the concetps of disease including epilepsy in East Asia has been developed and specilized. So, we can find out some valuable facts from 「Epilepsy section」 in 『Classified Assemblage of Medical Prescriptions』. First, ‘Epilepsy’ was mixed with ‘Mad’, ‘Spasm’ before 7th century but after than, it had been divided into in detail. Since 14th century, we can find out that it was separated with ‘Spasm’ completely. In conclusion, ‘Epilepsy’ concept in 『Classified Assemblage of Medical Prescriptions』 at 15th century is similar with mordern ‘Epilepsy’ concept. Second, We can find out that ‘Epilepsy disease’ was divided into ‘Five epilepsy’ before 7th century, and divided into ‘external cause’, ‘internal cause’, ‘external & internal cause’ in 12th century. And, it also was divided into ‘yin’ or ‘yang’ epilepsy. So, ‘Epilepsy’ concept in 『Classified Assemblage of Medical Prescriptions』 at 15th century can be divided into ‘yin’ or ‘yang’ generally, and also it is similar with ‘Acute and slow shock’. Especially, ‘yinyang’ of epilepsy is related to organs & bouls, depth & shallow, interior & exterior, not cold & heat definitely. From now on, the researches about how it had been understood in East Asia can help to find out modern significance of Korean medicine. and, it would be helpful for comprehensive study about 『Classified Assemblage of Medical Prescriptions』 from these researches in each section.

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