A Confluence of Humors: Āyurvedic Conceptions of Digestion and the History of Chinese "Phlegm" (tan 痰).
This article investigates the origin and the earliest, formative period of one of the major concepts in post-classical Chinese medicine, the concept of phlegm, tan. It is the first study that examines both Chinese- and Sanskrit-language sources in seeking to answer the question whether the developme...
| Publicado en: | Journal of the American Oriental Society Vol. 136; no. 3; pp. 465 - 494 |
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American Society for Premodern Asia (ASPA)
Jul-Sep2016
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