Study Of Medicinal Origin Of The Song Dynasty, The Market And Related Issues

Medicinal material's producing area and market provide indispensable "medicine" for medical practice, the medical material manufactured from the producing area is a medical resource that people could know and master, but whether people can make the best use of these medical resources or not, is depending on if the medical material's market at that time could provides enough "medicine" for the people.In Song dynasty, the distribution of producing area of medical material, based on the research on historical material(The Northern Song or Earlier Song Dynasty mainly use Oneworld mind at peace, YuanFeng nine domain draft, Song kill album draft, Tongkao literature, Monograph on Geography of the History of Song Dynasty, Material Medical of Classified Syndrome and other six historical materials, the Southern Song Dynasty mainly use twenty-one local records materials),carding the medicine manufactured in twenty-three prefectures in Northern Song and some regions in Southern Song Dynasty, and comparing them with the respect prefectures in Tang and Northern Song Dynasty to analyze the time and spatial variation of medical material's producing area form Northern Song to Southern Song. Finally, the conclusion is given:the trend of the kinds of medical material in every prefecture is that the number of medical material increased as the time went by, medical material's producing area's development in space, not only embodies in the break through of the radial distribution pattern in Han and Tang Dynasty which took Chang'an and Luoyang as its center, but also in the refining from prefecture to county.The intermediate link problem between medical material's producing area and market mainly show the pick, plant, processing and transaction of medical material in Song Dynasty from the mode of production of medical material, the diversity of kinds of medicine and the management of medical shop(advertisement).As for issue on the medical material's market, the author mainly investigates it from official pharmacy, folk medicine shop and market, and input of overseas medicinal materials these three aspects. The intervention of government on the production and Sell of medical material illustrate that the subject of medical market of Song Dynasty have changed from folk to the authority, the authority not only founded a whole set of medicine production and sell system from the central government to local government, but also intervened and regulated on the folk market.