In Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (Huangdi Nei Jing Lingshui Suwen), text dating Han (500 BC) reads:
Confucians and Taoists, in different ways, contributed to the development of hygiene and preventive medicine in China and the other one, in fact, have given great importance to the preservation of health.
"You must not cause damage to your body, even to the hair or skin, because you received them as gifts to your father and your mother."
Respect for the body is still considered a filial duty, so any damage is caused deliberately or through lack of attention, is considered an act of serious and inexcusable.
For their part, the Taoist philosophy of nature, emphasized the importance of knowing and to imitate the natural order, the harmony between man and the universe, they argued, is the secret to healthy living and enjoy of a long life.
arrived to prepare the elixir of life, using minerals (mercury, gold, lead), and to take medicinal remedies (ginseng, deer antlers young) and animal tissues (brain and reproductive organs of animals for treatment of organ urine of children high in hormones).
From these procedures, sometimes even naive or even dangerous, in time derived:
- develop a better understanding of natural drugs;
- l'evoluzione delle tecniche respiratorie e della ginnastica energetica - nota oggi con il nome di qigong;
- le arti marziali ;
- il massaggio;
- la strutturazione della dietetica preventiva e terapeutica;
- sviluppo della medicina stessa.
Un altro importante fattore nella genesi di questa cultura della conservazione della salute fu l'interesse nutrito dagli antichi Imperatori (dinastia Zhou, 722 - a.C.) per il benessere della popolazione.
L'Imperatore veniva allora considerato anche per la sua funzione di intermediario tra il volere del Cielo and the population if people enjoyed good health, crops were plentiful and there was peace, all that was interpreted as a sign of appreciation, from Heaven, the work of the Emperor.
The health of the country had important implications on the stability and legitimacy of the dynasties; this led to the creation of departments of public health, the establishment of medical schools, with regulatory examinations and the development of government assistance to disabilities.
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