일제강점기 신문류에 기술된 민간요법의 양상과 전승양태

Abstract

They published a variety of newspapers such as Dong-ha Ilbo, Maeil Shinbo, Chosun Jungang Ilbo, Jungwoe Ilbo, etc. during the Japanese colonial period. Those newspapers introduced folk remedies that may cure daily diseases with ease at home. Those articles described remedies to cure and prevent seasonal and daily illnesses that people may experience often during the seasonal changes of summer and winter and during every day lives. They took the opportunities of a newspaper to spread news to public and tried to provide the people with domestic living tips via those articles. Those folk remedies introduced by the newspapers were mostly simple prescriptions which used one or two medicinal materials only. It was easy to use the remedies as the methods were simple. The remedies included various methods such as traditional Korean medicine, folk medicinal experiences based on the traditional Korean medicine, therapies that transmitted orally, mixed remedies with modern medicine that was introduced after Korea opened its policy, etc., all of which were introduced as a wide category of folk remedies. The study collected folk remedies introduced on newspapers and confirmed the sources of the folk remedies via Danbangshinpyeon and other medicine-related historical materials published back then, and, reviewed the transmission situations of folk remedies that had been continuously used by the people after Korea's liberalization, through the contents of each city and county's journals.