| Objective: The vast Buddhist classics contain a large number of medical information. By studying the academic viewpoints and works of Buddhist scriptures, monastic medicine, monks, Buddhists, scholars and part of the classics of traditional Chinese medicine, we can not only understand Buddhist medical knowledge, methods and techniques, but also understand the application of Buddhist teachings in medicine and grasp the connotation of Buddhist medicine, so as to bring guidance and clinical value for modern physical and spiritual recuperation and nursing. This is an important field in the correlation study between Buddhism and medicine.Methods: Using the method of literature research and taking the prevention and treatment of the Buddhism medicine on physical and spiritual diseases as the research object, on the basis of confirming the related concepts of Buddhism medicine, body and soul, this dissertation is to conclude the basic theory of Buddhism medicine, diagnosis and treatment of the prevention methods and techniques of diseases, Buddhism medicine, the relationship between Buddhism and the traditional Chinese Medicine, the main manifestations and characteristics of human physical and spiritual disease, so as to make further research on the main methods, characteristics and the disciplines for Buddhism medicine in the prevention and treatment of physical and spiritual diseases.Results: The Buddhist medicine, with the Buddhist doctrine as the basis, contains the systematic basic theory, the unique diagnosis and treatment ideas, a wealth of diagnostic and therapeutic methods, and the unexpected treatment effects. The Buddhist medicine involves the fields of ethics, internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, facial features, mental psychology, nursing, immunological diseases, health cultivation and hospice care, interacting with Chinese medicine and complementing each other. It has a significant effect on the prevention and treatment of human physical and spiritual diseases, especially on the psychological and spiritual aspects. Many diseases can't be explained and treated with modern medicine, but with the ideas and methods of Buddhism medicine, such diseases can be relieved and even cured, which shows the important role of Buddhist medicine in human society.Conclusion: The whole Dharma is the medicine to relieve the pain of the human world. Buddhism itself has a healing effect. Whether in ancient or modern times, diseases that affect the human body and mind have not stopped. Traditional Chinese medicine emphasizes the unity of mind and body, holds that “strong willpower lead to faithful spirit, the soul does not come loose, regret and anger can not appear, five internal organs can't be invaded by pathogens.” It pays attention to psychological factors in maintaining the harmony in the body, mind and soul. Traditional Chinese medicine always pays attention to psychological treatment. For example, “Having the spirit, the volition will be good, and the disease can be cured”, and “Having comfort and no desires, the genuine qi will follow and the spirit will be in the interior, so the disease has never been.” Such ideas and Buddhist medicine are interlinked. For the diseases which cannot be solved by modern medicine, especially in mental and spiritual aspects, Buddhist medical techniques and methods can alleviate and solve the disease to a large extent, and it also offers many practical and effective methods, which have great value and significance for the modern society whose competition pressure increasingly becomes more and more intense. |
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