46. Dung, Hair, and Mungbeans: Household Remedies in the Longmen Recipes
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Critical Translation of over 150 recipes carved into the walls of a cave in Longmen Cave, near Loyang in the 7th century. These likely represent Buddhist transmitted recipes, and were certainly presented in a context of Buddhist merit-building monuments. Some identical recipes also appear in other received and excavated texts, indicating that these recipes, or their source(s), were more widely spread as part of the Buddhist diaspora into China. The recipes are simple and straightforward, presented in a regularised, organised fashion, and use commonly available materials.
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In the Longmen grotto, seventeen recipes involve excrement and urine from different animals.
“In this grotto are carved seventeen recipes involving excrement and urine from different animals: swallow droppings, horse manure, donkey dung, cow dung, chicken manure, pig excrement, sheep dung, dog droppings, and black ox urine.”
From Chinese Medicinal Excrement: Is There a Buddhist Influence on the Use of Animal Excrement-Based Recipes in Medieval China? (2017) · cites this paper as Stanley-Baker and Yang 2017
The Longmen Grottoes contain more than one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty-five recipes engraved on the northern wall of a cave, called the Prescriptions of the Longmen cave.
“Those of Buddhist origin (without precisely defining that criteria) include more than one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty-five recipes engraved on the northern wall of a cave at the Longmen Grottoes near Luoyang, which are called the 'Prescriptions of the Longmen cave' ( Longmen fang 龍門方 ).”
From Chinese Medicinal Excrement: Is There a Buddhist Influence on the Use of Animal Excrement-Based Recipes in Medieval China? (2017) · cites this paper as Stanley-Baker and Yang 2017
The pathologies with the greatest number of recipes at Longmen are skin injuries or diseases and feverish wasting diseases such as jaundice and epidemic fevers.
“The pathologies for which there is the greatest number of recipes at Longmen are skin injuries or diseases$^{1}$^{3} and feverish wasting diseases such as jaundice and epidemic fevers.”
From Chinese Medicinal Excrement: Is There a Buddhist Influence on the Use of Animal Excrement-Based Recipes in Medieval China? (2017) · cites this paper as Stanley-Baker and Yang 2017
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Despeux, C. (2017) · Asian Medicine · doi:10.1163/15734218-12341390 · Cited by 5 · see citing works
- Authors
- Stanley-Baker, M., & Yang, D.
- Affiliations
- Max Planck Society (DE)
- Venue
- Buddhism and Medicine
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Published
- 2017-12-31
- Pages
- 454-477
- OpenAlex
- W2752880117
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- 2
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2017: 1
- FWCI
- 4.39
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Columbia University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Religious studies › Indian and Buddhist Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › History of Medicine Studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Complementary and alternative medicine › Traditional Chinese Medicine Studies
- Keywords
- home remedies, medical recipes, Buddhist diaspora, critical translation, Buddhist manuscripts, mungbean, hair, dung
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