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Ancient Chinese medical text
The Yin Yang Shiyi Mai Jiujing (simplified Chinese : 阴阳十 じゅう 一 いち 脉灸经 ; traditional Chinese : 陰陽 いんよう 十 じゅう 一脈 いちみゃく 灸 やいと 經 けい ; pinyin : Yīn Yáng Shíyī Mài Jiǔjīng ), or Cauterization Canon of the Eleven Yin and Yang Vessels , is an ancient Chinese medical text that was excavated in 1973 from a Han-dynasty tomb in Mawangdui Han tombs site (Hunan province) that had been sealed in 168 BCE.[1] It was handcopied in seal script on the same sheet of silk as the Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments and another text on cauterization during the Qin dynasty , around 215 BCE.[2] The text describes the pathways of eleven vessels or channels (mai 脉 ) inside the body, as well as the ailments associated with each vessel.[2] It contains many textual parallels with the later medical text known as the Lingshu , one extant version of the Huangdi Neijing .[3]
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Harper, Donald J. (1998), Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts , London and New York: Kegan Paul International, ISBN 0-7103-0582-6 .