고대 중국인의 질병 발생의 원인 고찰 - 『說文解字』「疒」부를 중심으로

Abstract

『ShuoWenJieZi』 is a dictionary of characters from the Eastern Han Dynasty and before, with a wide range of characters collected. In 高明‘s 「New Evaluation of ShuoWenJieZi」, he appraised 『ShuoWenJieZi』 as fourteen. Among them, the 10th value is “The history of ancestors collected by 『ShuoWenJieZi』” and the 12th value is “『ShuoWenJieZi』 provides a variety of materials”. That is, 『ShuoWenJieZi』 not only contains the interpretation of the words, but also contains the ideas and cultural characteristics of the people at that time. From this point of view, the author finds that there are quite a lot of words about diseases in 『ShuoWenJieZi』 written by 许慎 in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to a traditional Chinese medicine expert, 許敬生 counted about 400 words related to pathology in 『ShuoWenJieZi』 and 103 words related to disease appeared in the Volume7, Part2 「疒」 radical of 『ShuoWenJieZi』. After analyzing them, he concluded that there are eight causes of diseases in ancient China. For example, first, too much gas, second, injury, third, misuse of drugs, fourth, disease caused by poor food consumption fifth, plague, sixth, exhausted, seventh, diseases of the birth. In order to further understand the meaning of these characters, after comparing with the excavated text before the publication of 『ShuoWenJieZi』, and then, using the Chinese ancient calligraphy and medical literature as circumvention evidence, finally explore the “causes of the occurrence of diseases in ancient China”. However, did not appear in the 『ShuoWenJieZi』 「疒」 radical, the other words that mention disease in the radical are also reviewed, so as to supplement the reasons for the diseases in ancient China.