Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.9

v1.c6.s2.t4.9

*Valuable Prescriptions for Emergency* also contained some prescriptions using Indian medicines. Its Volume 12 of *Gallbladder* had the section on “Pills and Powders for 10,000 Diseases” and recorded 13 prescriptions, among which “Jivaka Pill for Ten Thousand Diseases” was the most representative medicine. The pill for 10,000 diseases “had mainly bezoar, so it was also named bezoar pill; it was named Jivaka pill because of the good doctor Jivaka”. Jivaka was a famous doctor recorded in Indian *sutra* using his name to name a medical prescription showed that Sun Simiao knew about Indian medical thoughts and Jivaka prescriptions to some extents, and absorbed them. Volume 27 of *Cultivation of Temperament* in *Valuable Prescriptions for Emergency* collected “Indian massage which was a Brahman method”. This was a relatively rare Indian massage method in Chinese literature. On one hand, Buddhist thoughts and Indian medicine had active effects on Sun Simiao’s knowledge structure and clinical thinking which made him one of the main driving forces in the change of medical knowledge in traditional Chinese medicine history. On the other hand, the foreign knowledge further enlarged its influences on China because of the collection in his work.