Acupuncture and Horses Medicine between Ancient Arabs and Chinese
The animals were very important in ancient Arabs especially horses,because the horse was very important for their life in desert and for defense against enemies of trip,after declaration of Islam increased needs for animals.added a relations with neighbours Greek.Indian,Persian,all these factors reacted with us and resulted in development of ancient Islamic Arabic veterinary medicine.Aquapuncture may be defined as the insertion of needles into specific points on the hody to cause a desired healing effect but in ancient hloodletting and cauterization were included.Many of veterinary techniques these Chinese source describe using on horse correspond closely to techniques found at the same time or even earlier in Egyptian,Arabic,Indian,and other sources.Herhal medicine for horse was found in ancient Arabs.Chinese and other ancient civilizations.Cauterization is one of the oldest means of treatment in the world,by glowing iron rods local different degree of burning marks are made in the skin.The site of application vary for different diseases,generally the location is anatomically related to the sites of the illness,the Arabs medicine has influenced the European and other countries in the medieval times and cauterization became an important tool in the treatment of mankind and animals.nowadays cauterization is still practiced in folk medicine all over the world.Chinese veterinary medicine of horses is back to long periods,it revolves around the diet,exercise,and environment of horse,it also involve the use of Aquapuncture and Chinese medical herbs.
history of veterinary medicine Arabic veterinary medicine Chinese veterinary medicine acupuncture cauterization
Adel Elsayed Ahmed Mohamed
Animal Medicine Department,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,South Valley University,Egypt;Arabic Association for the History of Veterinary Medicine
国际会议
XVIth International Congress on Animal Hygiene(第十六届动物卫生国际会议(ISAH 2013))
南京
英文
17-19
2013-05-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）