아유르베다와 중국 전통의학의 약초학 비교연구

A comparative study on the Ayurvedic Herbology with the Chinese Traditional Herbology

Herbs play a particularly important role in the modern world, where damage from food processing and drug overuse is a concern. Herbs are used for many purposes. The history of the oldest medicine in the world, especially the best of Indian Ayurveda and Chinese herbal medicine, is that researching the characteristics of herbal medicine not only helps to find better medicines and improves disease treatment tomorrow, but also greatly contributes to the development of medicine. Records from India indicate that ancient medicine used herbs to cure diseases. The Chinese medical system, too, has a very long history and has no external influence on the record. Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine have much in common. Both systems focus on patients rather than illnesses. Both systems aim to enhance health and improve the quality of life by fundamentally promoting health or disease through a holistic treatment strategy. Almost half of the plant materials used as medicine are similar. Furthermore, the two systems have a similar philosophy in the way they classify individuals, data, and diseases. Traditionally these system regard humans as the center of the universe, as an antenna that mediates the elements of the heavens and the elements of the earth. It was natural for people to look to nature for medicine when experiencing illness. Herbal remedies have been inherited from the ancient times and have been transformed along the ages by taking advantage of local and ethnic characteristics. The common points and differences of the herbs used in Chinese medicine and Ayurveda have been studied by this research. So we hope that oriental traditional medicine contributes to the world for one s health and beauty with modern medical in the ranks of integrated medicine. Therefore, a comparative study of the herbal medicine of Ayurveda in India and the Chinese traditional medicine is a study of the basis of world medicine and, more importantly, it is an important task as a pioneer role in leading the future of world medicine.