Ancient Books and History
Exploration on the academic thoughts of health maintenance in Jiujing Tu (
, Illustration of Moxibustion), one of book relics found in Dunhuang

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors deeply studied 12 moxibustion pictures in Jiujing (

, Illustration of Moxibustion), one of Dunhuang book relics, and described the academic thoughts of health maintenance contained in the book. It was considered that the health maintenance thoughts of humanistic thought, common maintenance of body and spirit, balanced interaction, and maintenance of essence, qi and spirit contained in the book were very sophisticated to greatly constitute the academic thoughts of modern health maintenance.

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First author: LIU Hai-wei (1984-), male, doctoral candidate of acupuncture and massage in Hubei University of Chinese Medicine admitted in 2013. Research field: clinical and experiment research of acupuncture in Dunhuang

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First author: LIU Hai-wei (1984-), male, doctoral candidate of acupuncture and massage in Hubei University of Chinese Medicine admitted in 2013. Research field: clinical and experiment research of acupuncture in Dunhuang

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