以毒为药

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• This fluid materiality of medicines in classical Chinese pharmacy is in sharp contrast to the concept of “active ingredient” or “active principle” in modern biomedicine, where a specific chemical ingredient isolated from a substance is responsible for its effects. Originating in nineteenth-century Europe, the idea has become the gold standard for drug development in modern pharmacology." In early Chinese pharmaceutical history, however, drugs were not understood to contain such a pure and invariant material core; it was the context of a drug-its interplay with other drugs, its preparation, its mode of acting upon a particular body-that shaped its therapeutic outcome.In this regard, the concept of “drug assemblage” proposed by philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is relevant. When... (查看原文)

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• Given the robust tradition of the medical use of poisons throughout imperial China, we may wonder where today's idea of Chinese drug therapy as mild and benign came from. The answer lies in a refashioning of Chinese medicine in the modern era. With the introduction of Western biomedicine and the rise of scientism in China in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, classical Chinese medicine experienced a serious crisis that called its legitimacy into question. During this tumultuous period, advocates for Chinese medicine vigorously negotiated with the state and initiated a series of measures to transform their medical practices and reinstate their authority." The emphasis on the benign naturalness of Chinese drug therapy was hence a strategic rhetoric that highlighted the unique bene... (查看原文)

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