浅析中国与阿拉伯医药交流的实现途径

Brief discussion on several approaches of intercommunication in medicine between China and Arabia

阿拉伯医药对中国医药学的发展有着重要影响,中阿医药交流过程中,有几种实现途径颇为显著。第一是朝贡(派遣使节),主要是阿拉伯地区的国家派遣使节来到中国,带来本国的药物;中国回赠的物品中也包括当时的一些名贵药材。第二是对外贸易,中国和阿拉伯地区国家的贸易往来,是药物交流实现的主要途径。第三是军事战争,战争在客观上促进了中阿医药的交流。第四是宗教传播。

Arabian medicine played an important role in the development of Chinese medicine. There were some distinct approaches in the communication course. The first was paying tribute. The Arabia sended messenger to China with their national medicinal materials,and China presented some return goods including rare medicinal materials of that time. International trade was the second. It was the primary approach of realization on medicine's intercommunication. Thirdly, the military affairs war was the other . The war promoted the medical intercommunication between China and Arabia objectively. The fourth was spreading of religion.