Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.17

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five elements and the concept of viscera pathology) and further enriched the traditional Chinese medical pathological theories. *Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions* kept many prescriptions named after Jīvaka. As early as in 1936, Fan Xingzhun pointed out in the paper, *Study on Prescriptions in the Western Regions* that “acute conjunctivitis prescription” and “prescription curing acute conjunctivitis” in volume 11 of *Children’s Eye Diseases* of *Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions*, “prescription taking calamus” and “Jīvaka soup – the prescription for extreme deficiency, cold wind, weakness and colourlessness ” in volume 12 of Cultivation of Temperament, “sulfur grundum simmering – the prescription for flaccidity of lower limbs and cold caused by deficiency” in volume 17 Apoplexia Part II, “honey simmering – the prescription for consumptive thirst”, “goat spinal cord simmering – the prescription for consumptive thirst, dry mouth and throat moistening” and “honey simmering – the prescription for thirsts” in volume 19 *Miscellaneous Diseases*, “Ajanta medicine – the prescription for diseases which can be helpful for look and cure diseases after taking for a long time in the recuperating way”, “prescription of asafoetida pill”, “prescription of kuhseng and nitrel liquor”, “prescription of great white paste”, “prescription of great black paste”, “prescription of great white paste”, “prescription of immersion soup”, “innocence pill for one hundred fears”, “prescription curing ten leprosy diseases” and “magic prescription curing leprosy” in volume 21 *Ten Thousand Diseases* and “prescription of the great doctor Jīvaka curing 10,000 diseases of viscera, tonifying and prolonging life” in volume 22 *Flying and Refining* came from Indian prescriptions. As for “the prescription taking calamus”, Sun Simiao clearly recorded that “Indian Tripitaka Dharma Master Varmanmiti from Rajagrha City, Magadha Kingdom became was an envoy of Tujue in the 8ᵗʰ year of Daye Period and it was translated by the Great Virtue Master of Luozhou and Master Ju in Pure Land Temple on July 23, the sixth year of Wude Period. Master Ju was Master Xing Ju in the early the Tang Dynasty. The source of “immersing method in liquor” attached to “the prescription of kuhseng and nitrel liquor” was “from *Treatise on Prescriptions of Jīvaka: Method Curing Moderate Gale*”. *Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions* kept many Indian prescriptions and used much more prescriptions of Indian medicines including asafoetida, especially flavour prescriptions including lavender.