ABSTRACT
Bloodletting therapy is one of the important methods in various traditional medicines. By analyzing the features of bloodletting indicators, apparatuses and methods recorded by the classics of traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine, i.e. Huang Di Nei Jing (Internal Canon of Yellow Emperor) and Si Bu Yi Dian (Four Medical Tantras), this article pointed out the different indexes for bloodletting therapy in the two traditional medicine systems, elucidated the varied apparatuses and theories, as well as the evidences for selecting different bloodletting methods, providing theoretical supports for sharing and combining the bloodletting methods of the two traditional medicine systems.
ABSTRACT
Si Bu Yi Dian is one of the most marvelous masterpieces in the development of Tibetan Medicine,which selectively absorbed the essence from medical masterpieces of Tibetan Medicine and Han medicine,concluded the clinical experience in Tibetan Medicine,and is closely connected with traditional Chinese medicine.Its account of medical ethics also shares a similar origin with its counterpart in traditional Chinese medicine.The Peace-making Marriage and cultural communications between Tang Dynasty and Tibetan Regime,and Tibetan Regime's emphasis on medical science are the two major reasons for the close connection between the medical ethics of Tibetan Medicine and that of traditional Chinese medicine.