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《Yongchu(靈樞)》 is completed as a result of gathering several treatises about oriental medicine in B.C. 3c ~ A.D. 1c, and esteemed as a bible of oriental medicine, especially very much quoted in acupuncture fields. But the name of 《Yongchu(靈樞)》 wasn't in existence at that time. Until A.D. 3c, it had been named after 《Guguen(九券)》, given it's number of volumes, and since then mainly named after 《Chimgueng(針經)》, given a word of the first volume. After A.D. 6c, under the influence of Taoism(道家), it was titled 《Yongchu(靈樞)》, 《Guhe(九墟)》, 《Gureong(九靈)》 etc. Yongchu(靈樞), guhe(九墟), gureong(九靈) are words which is connected with Taoism(道家). In 1155, Sung Sa(史崧) published 《Yongchu(靈樞)》, whim became a textbook of oriental medicine, so other titles disappeared since then. 《Yongchu(靈樞)》, 《Guhe(九墟)》, 《Gureong(九靈)》, 《Guguen(九卷)》, 《Chimgueng(針經)》 are not the same book, but the contents are almost similar, and some letters are different. Especially the textbook, pubished by Sasung(史崧), had been related to the 《Chimgyeng(針經)》, delivered to North-Song(北宋) dynasty by Jong-Gag Haung(黃宗慤), an envoy of an ancient Korean state(918-1392). So I expect to progress the study of medical exchange about it in the future.

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