Textual Research of Terminology Processing / 世界科学技术-中医药现代化

ABSTRACT

Through textual research of processing and related terminology, we provided references for the standard naming of processing and the correct using of related terms. According to the textual research of ancient and modern literature, relationships between processing and related terms were analyzed. The results showed that“Pao”and“Zhi”in ancient times referred to the fire progress of Chinese medicine.“Zhi (Governance)”and“Zhi (making)”meant to change the bias of Chinese medicine through different processing methods.“Processing”contained modern processing methods of firing, watering, cleansing, cutting, and etc. In Han Dynasty,“Pao-Zhi”referred to two kinds of fire methods. However, after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, it referred to many kinds of pharmaceutical technology, such as firing, watering, cleansing, cutting and so on. It had the same concept with processing. Terms such as“Xiu-Shi”,“Xiu-Zhi (Governance)”,“Xiu-Zhi (making)”were also called as“Pao-Zhi (processing)”. It was concluded that processing should be the standardized academic terminology.