Study On Medical Disease Cognition And Treatment Practice In Dehong Dai From The Perspective Of Medical Anthropology

The Dai people have summed up a lot of medical experience in their long life practice,formed a distinctive local medical culture,and their understanding of the nature of life has undergone a change from the whole to the local,macro to micro,highlighting the changing characteristics of disease cognition and treatment practice of Dai medical practitioners in different times.Research objectives:This topic aims to classify the disease cognition and treatment practice of Dai medicine in Dehong Prefecture,analyze the cultural connotation of disease cognition of Dai medicine in the social and cultural background and the signifi-cance of local medical knowledge reflected behind the treatment practice,and provide the research ideas and cultural connotation of medical anthropology for Dehong Dai medicine.Research methods:This project is based on the perspective of medical anthropology.First,literature research is adopted to sort out the relevant information of Dai medicin-e in Dehong Prefecture.Secondly,field investigation is carried out in Dehong Prefecture with Dai medicine as the main body.Finally,on the basis of the abo-ve content,the medical anthropology analysis and interpretation.Research results:First,by combining literature research and field investigation,a total of102 Dai doctors in Dehong Prefecture have been collected in this paper,including "skilled" Dai doctors,folk Dai doctors and people of other ethnic groups engaged in Dai medicine.Cases related to Dai medicine in Dehong Prefecture are presented in the form of "narrative" and "dialogue".20 single prescriptions,100 commonly used drugs,presented in table form.Second,through the sorting of literature and field data,the disease cognition system of Dehong Dai medicine is refined,the views of nature,etiology an-d physical differences of Dai medicine are expounded,and the diseases are divided into naturalism and personification,major disease and minor disease,fast disease and slow disease according to their causes,severity and urgency.The Dai medicine is placed in the context of Dai ethnic group in Dehong Prefecture,and the medical choice of Dai ethnic group is discussed from three aspects: professional,folk and public,which further reflects the coexistence of multiple med-ical systems in Dehong Prefecture.Third,based on the disease cognition of Dai medicine,combined with individual cases to explain the treatment practice.In the understanding of diseases,Dai medicine has gradually formed corresponding treatment principles,and the treatment methods include ritual therapy,herbal therapy and modern medical treatment.Through continuous practice,Dai medicine has formed very ethnic and regional experience in drug use,and the use of fresh medicine is good.The characteristics of the combination of medicine and food,the corresponding characters of drugs and diseases in human function and therapeutic efficacy.Research conclusion:First,The construction of medical disease cognition system in Dai ethnic group.Influenced by the Dai culture,the disease cognition of Dai medicine in Dehong Prefecture has formed a disease culture with "four towers" as the core and multimedical treatment as the feature.It has the characteristic of typical local medical knowledge and is a local search for multi-medical system under the construction of society.Second,adherence and flexibility of local medical knowledge.With the development of social economy,the cognition and interpretation of diseases in Dai medicine have gradually become concrete and scientific,and the treatment practice has changed from regional survival experience to integration of external diagnosis and treatment experience,and from single mode of confrontation to multiple medical methods of prevention and treatment,with obvious local and ethnic characteristics.However,in spite of this,the Dai doctors still retain part of their traditional cognitive methods in the view and classification of diseases,and their treatment habits also continue some inherited experience.The flexibility and adherence of the Dai doctors to local medical knowledge can more clearly reflect the recognition and innovation of their own ethnic culture.Third,inclusiveness and complementarity among medical systems is the basis for improving the overall medical level in a region.The medical system of Dehong Prefecture is diversified,with competition,complementarity and coexistence among various components.By placing Dai medicine in the social field of Dai ethnic group,it is found that the logical thinking of medical knowledge of Dai ethnic group integrates ethnic wisdom and multi-culture.In view of this,it shows the inevitability of the existence of multiple medical systems in Dehong Prefecture,and the inclusive complementarity between medical systems is just the basis of improving the overall medical level in the region.