Ancient Greek and Chinese Medicine
Similarities between ancient Greek medicine and Chinese medicine Posted by Bai Xinghua Greece and China are ancient civilizations, and they also have a long history of medicine. Hippocrates, the father of Greek medicine, lived almost at the same time as Bian Que (Wayfaring Magpie), the founder of Chinese medicine. By comparing the Hippocrates Corpus and the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic of Inner Medicine, it is not surprising to find that there are many similarities between two medical systems. First, the holistic thininkg. Hippocrates considers that natural laws govern all things, that all things were arranged in the body by fire, a copy of the whole, the small after the manner of the great and the great after the manner of the small. The ancient Chinese ancestors believe that humanity was created by the interaction of Qi between the Heaven and Earth, and the heaven, Earth and Humanity are similarly constituted and governed by the same laws. Secondly, dynamic b...