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Changes in the Perception and Usage of “Os Draconis”

  • Author:

    Yuan-peng Chen

  • Page Number:

    88.3:397-451

  • Date:

    2017/09

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Abstract

“Os Draconis” has been frequently applied in traditional Chinese medication, and such application, according to traditional Chinese medical texts, began to be used in practice no later than the 1st to the 3rd century AD. Traditionally, Chinese doctors have long and consistently prescribed this medicine to their patients.
This essay is an interdisciplinary study on Os Draconis from the aspects of “medication” and “material culture.” The concept of the inter-relationship between dragons and Os Draconis held by ancient Chinese may actually inspire us to look into a topic that involves both medication and material culture: people might have completely misunderstood the nature of ingredients which had been used for medical purposes for a long time. Nevertheless, such misunderstanding did not lead to a full collapse of related knowledge or the entire value system. In the case of “Os Draconis,” misunderstanding of its nature did not affect its medical function. To the contrary, it formed a unique culture of value.
The purpose of this essay is to conduct a detailed research regarding the “nature,” “application,” “production/marketing” and “trade” of Os Draconis, as well as the values underlying related counterfeit products. The final goal is to reconstruct a history of the material culture of medication beyond temporal boundaries.

Keywords

Os Draconis, medication, material culture, social life history

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Yuan-peng Chen, “Changes in the Perception and Usage of ‘Os Draconis’,” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 88.3 (2017): 397-451.

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Chen, Yuan-peng
2017 “Changes in the Perception and Usage of ‘Os Draconis’.” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 88.3: 397-451.
Chen, Yuan-peng. (2017). Changes in the Perception and Usage of “Os Draconis”. Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, 88(3), 397-451.
Chen, Yuan-peng. “Changes in the Perception and Usage of ‘Os Draconis’.” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica 88, no. 3 (2017): 397-451.
Chen, Yuan-peng. “Changes in the Perception and Usage of ‘Os Draconis’.” Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, vol. 88, no. 3, 2017, pp. 397-451.
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