CLAUDINE SALMON AND MYRA SIDHARTA
Tradidional Chinese Medicine and Pharmacy in Indonesia -Some Sidelights
Since the remote past, medical products and medicines have given rise to a long-distance trade within Asia, especially between Southeast Asian countries and China, and transfers of medical knowledge have constituted an important topic within the cultural exchanges that took place at the same time. 1 It seems that Chinese physicians started quite early to travel to the Nanyang countries. The story goes that when Shi Xie : frH served as prefect in Giao Chi 5£ Elh (present North Vietnam) he fell seriously ill and in 226 he was saved by the Northern Buddhist monk Dong Feng illfl, a well-known physician, who healed him with a single pill. 2 For the following periods the names of a few other famous practitioners have come down to posterity. Such is the case with Ming Kong H ^ ^ ? another Buddhist monk who is said to have come from Chang''an JH^ g1 (present Shanxi ^ jZ § " province) 3 in order
1. See for instance Feng Lijun MlLM, " Gudai Zhong-Yue zhongyi zhongyao jiaoliu chutan ^{ X^ M^ Wt^^^ mfflWi I Preliminary Discussion of theXultural Exchange of Chinese Medicine between China and Vietnam," Haijiaoshi yanjiu 2002(1) pp. 47-56; —, " Gudai Zhongguo yu Dongnanya zhongyiyao jiaoliu " fi'ft'^ HIISl^ Sg^ w^^ M,"
Nanyang wenti yanjiu ffi^ HMW^, 2002(3), pp. 8-19; Paul Wheatley, " Geographical Notes on some Commodities Involved in Sung Maritime Trade," Journal of the Malayan Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 32(2), June 1959, pp. 3-43. 2. Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thuj^ Mklii^ kW, ed. Hanoi, Nha xuk ban Khoa Hoc Xa Hoi, 1993. IV, 3, l i b.
3. Feng Lijun, " Gudai Zhong-Yue zhongyi zhongyao jiaoliu chutan," p. 5 0.
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