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Since the beginning of written history there has always been someone that has taken the roll of doctor. Whether it was a shaman, medicine man, or even a family member, they have all been there to help to the sick and injured. China is no different than these other areas, and like all the other areas over time they eventually developed a more scientific processes than their superstitious ideas of what caused illness. It was once believed in China that demons and dead family members caused you to get sick.

There were many people performing medicine in Sung Dynasty and to make it easier to learn they wrote books to help the younger generation and maybe develop the techniques further. One of the most famous works on medicine in China was the "The Yellow Emperors Inner Canon" which was written between the 1st century B.C.E. and the 7th century C.E., this was a collection of books that were written by several different medical lineages at different times. It contained information on the Yellow Emperor and what caused illness, The Yellow Emperor was said to be one of the founding sages of China and the one that developed the medical technique of acupuncture and learned medicine from Qibo, who was only a commoner physician. The search for medical knowledge was to help the Chinese people to health and longevity, and these books had to do with the five phase's theory, yin and yang and qi, to explain what was wrong with someone. With this search they found ways to help the sick and this allowed people to live longer and better lives.
When the idea of how the body works, most cultures are incorrect, but when they start studying medicine who is there to say that they are wrong. With the Chinese people they believed that there were five elements, your yin and yang, and your qi are what causes you to be sick. While this is partial true, when you are sick you are out of balance but it is caused by a virus or bacteria, while the Chinese culture thought that it could have been demons or their dead ancestors. These ideas changed over time and in the Sung Dynasty they started looking at the symptoms of the illness and figured out what caused the illness.
During the Sung there were a lot of steps forward when it comes to women's medicine, this was the first time that people specialized in fuke and had more people focused on women's medicine. With this happening women were given better treatment and doctors started to understand illness with women. Menstruation and gynecology were

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