| 摘要: | The Origin of Bai Gui Ban Was Not Dead Turtle, Wang Yi-Rong collected Turtle Plastron in TCM Drugstore (1899 A.D.) Suspected Not Oracle-Bone Scripture Hsien-Cheh Chang1 Kuei-Hua Tsai2 1School of Chinese Medicine, 2Post Baccalaureate School of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University, Taichung Bai Gui Ban (Damaged Turtle Plank) was popular name in TCM prescriptions. The TCM physicians and drug stores in Taiwan always said the source is from natural dead turtle. From Encyclopedia of Traditional Chinese Medicine (752 books, 280 millions words), we collected the related turtle records for 459 books, 2,867 chapter sections, 7,869,341 words. With our TCM analysis software system, we get result as following: 1. The Bai Gui records had 541 pieces, in 136 books, 437 chapter sections, total 1,322,201 words. 2. The first record of Bai Gui was on book, 420 AD. 3. The source was from divination, first record was on books 713-714A.D. and 908-923 AD later second. Posterity carried this say had 31 books. 4. The source was from natural dead turtle, first record was on books 1525A.D. There were 17 books had such records. 5. From (1) different generation, 811 years long, (2) survey our 7 years breed turtle, market for breeding turtle, Taipei Zoo, turtle is uneasy dead animal. (3) Experiment, let the dead turtle exposure outside, it decomposed away into small pieces, not whole shell or plank. So, we prove it is wrong from natural dead turtle. In ancient generation, the religion, worship, turtle shell divination, and medicine had very closed relationship. Turtle plank divination was very popular antique social folkway, and sold in TCM drugs stores after worship. In the research of oracle-bone scripture, scholars said Wang Yi-Rong (1899 A.D.), Qing dynasty, collected the lettering turtle plastron from TCM drugstore was the firsthand finding oracle-bone scripture, this is suspected by our research result. The Traditional Chinese medicine is the accumulated knowled |
