Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t3.24

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the foreign prescriptions such as Agada Pill and Jivaka’s Recipe for Malignant Diseases. The Rhizoma Atractylodis Pill includes various aromatic drugs like fructus chebulae, *pistacia lentiscus*, radix curcumae, styrax and *aconitum napellus* etc all from India and Persia. Agada Pill makes good use of such five herbs as pterocarpus indicus, barberry, madder root, radix curcumae and pepper similar to the *Mahà-gandha-hasti-agada* in *Caraka-saühità*, another classic of Indian Ayurveda. There are also “Jivaka Decoction”, “Beisang Decoction” (from Persia and Ta Chin, the latter referred to as Eastern Rome in ancient China), “Drug Infusing Method in Wine” in *Jivaka’s Prescription-Study on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases Caused by Wind*, “Jivaka’s Prescription for Various Diseases of Internal Organs and Replenishing Life Extension Recipe” and *Bans for Family Harmony*, and so on, all pertained to foreign medical science. The Acorus Calamus Prescription in *Supplement to Invaluable Prescriptions for Ready Reference* is typically a foreign prescription which was brought to China by the envoy sent by Tripitaka Dharma Master Bamo Midi from the kingdom of Magadha in ancient India and Tujue in the eighth year of Daye Period (612 CE) and then translated by Master Zhuju in Pureland Monastery on July, 23, the sixth year of Wude (623 CE) Sun Simiao learnt a large amount of foreign medical knowledge by the eminent monks of Middle Earth, which were collected in his own works and even appropriately revised in accordance with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine. His works further strengthened and enlarged the influence of Indian medical knowledge and Buddhism thought on traditional Chinese medicine.