Article ID: CBB049816709

Healing Plants in the Spiritual Landscape of the Shanhai Jing (Itineraries of Mountains and Seas, Comp. 1st c. BC) (2015)

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In this paper I advance arguments against studies of plants listed in the Shanhai jing 山海經 (Itineraries of mountains and seas, compiled about the 1 st century BC) in terms of materia medica or systematic botany. I propose to consider them instead as an integral part of an ideal organisation of terrestrial space conveyed by this early Chinese work – a spiritual landscape . The latter belongs to a so-called ‘totalistic’ conception, simultaneously embracing cosmological, religious, political, topographical and other dimensions, which cannot be disaggregated, as they are part of a single, complexly interrelated whole. The main distortion to be avoided is to regard its features, for instance the healing plants, independently from other dimensions, and in terms of typologically different or modernistic conceptual frameworks.

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Authors & Contributors
Touwaide, Alain
Jane Kilpatrick
Li, Ang
Hardy, Gavin
Mohammadifar, Shamameh
Totelin, Laurence
Concepts
Botany
Plants
Medicine, herbal
Medicinal plants
Materia medica
Silk Road
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
Song Dynasty (China, 960-1279)
Qing dynasty (China, 1644-1912)
Tang dynasty (China, 618-907)
Places
China
India
Ethiopia
Arabian peninsula
Byzantium
Sri Lanka
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