조선 후기 『본초강목』의 전래와 그 활용: 『본초정화』, 『본초부방편람』을 중심으로

Abstract

Sakae Miki said Classified Emergency Materia Medica(證類本草) had been the dominant standard of herbology throughout Joseon Dynasty, and that Compendium of Materia Medica(本草綱目) had only been accepted so lately that a few books used herbological result of it in the late Joseon Dynasty. But according to Visiting Old Beijing Diary (燕行日錄) written by Munjoong Seo(徐文重) in 1690, Compendium of Materia Medica(本草綱目) was in fact introduced before the year 1712, the year Miki Sakae argued to be the year Compendium of Materia Medica was accepted to Joseon officially. Now, we can assume that the introducing year of Compendium of Materia Medica was faster than Miki Sakae's opinion by the following reasons; the effort of Joseon government and intellectuals to buy new books of Ming (明) & Ching(淸); the publishing year of the book for living in countryside (山林經濟) regarded as the first citing literature of Compendium of Materia Medica. And the True Records of the Joseon Dynasty (朝鮮王朝實錄) and many collections written by intellectuals in the 18th century show that the herbological knowledge from Compendium of Materia Medica had already spread to the corners of Joseon Dynasty. Thus we can make the following assumption: Classified Emergency Materia Medica and Compendium of Materia Medica had coexisted in the late Joseon Dynasty. Sakae Miki suggested 6 examples which used Compendium of Materia Medica in the late Joseon Dynasty. I reviewed two of them in this paper,Essentials of Materia Medica(本草精華) & Handbook of Prescriptions from Materia Medica(本草附方便覽). Essentials of Materia Medica quoted Compendium of Materia Medica briefly focusing clinical use, and Handbook of Prescriptions from Materia Medica also re-compiled Compendium of Materia Medica to practical use according to the form of Treasured Mirror of Eastern Medicine (東醫寶鑑). It means that the results of Compendium of Materia Medica have been used positively, based on the herbology of materia medica from countryside(鄕藥). From this point of view, the hyphothesis there weren't any herbological progress after accepting Compendium of Materia Medica in the late Joseon Dynasty by Sakae Miki can be denied.