Briefly on Historical Status and Practical Importance of "Incantation and Psychology" / 中华中医药杂志

ABSTRACT

Academic circles invariably have diverging view on "incantation and psychology",and differ to pass judgment on it.The author of this article tries to discuss the essential discrepancy of "incantation and psychology" compared with pseudoscience and anti-science from the essence of "incantation and psychology" and its effects in that history stage.It could be said that "incantation and psychology" was a stagger step of the ancients on the road of medical science.It was the confluence of primitive religion,experience and rationality ingredient.So we could not break away from its existing soil to evaluate it striding over the space-time,otherwise it was a discrepancy with historical materialism.Therefore it has practical importance in modern clinic to apply the "incantation and psychology",though excavating the essence of it and endowing it scientific methods.