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The Sa-Ahm monk, who was believed to have existed in the middle of Cho-Seon Dynasty in Korea, have created an original Sa-Ahm's acupuncture method and written down, "Book of Sa-Ahm's 5 Element Acupuncture Method" using not only laws of creation and suppression in 5 element theory but also its main and other connected meridians according to the daignosis of visceras and bowels. Also the written time and background of its theory have not been known, and after obtaining Ji-San's book on Sa-Ahm's acupuncture method, I studied on them. The results are as follows : 1) The treatment chapter of Book of Sa-Ahm's 5 Element Acupuncture Method was written down by Sa-Ahm himself, and the chapter for Medical Experience was found to be written down by Ji-San. 2) It seemed that Sa-Ahm adopted the main ideas of "Eui Hak Jeong Jon(ì¢ùÊïáîî)" for the section of physiology, pathology and classification of disease symptoms the contents of which covered 40 of 43 parts, and the ideas of "Dong Eui Bo Gam(ÔÔì¢ÜÄÊü)" for YunGi treatise(ê¡Ñ¨ø¹), and SangHan part(ß¿ùÎÚ¦) in classification of diease symptoms was intensified by the ideas of "Eui Hak Ip Moon(ì¢ùÊìýÚ¦)", and the contents of apoplexy, diseases characterized by acute diarrhea and vomiting, beriberi, diseases of oral cavity were intensified by the ideas of "Chim Ku Kyeong Hearn Bang(öÝ϶ÌèúÐÛ°)". 3) The written date of the Book of Sa-Ahm's 5 Element Acupuncture Method has been established as 1644 AD(22nd year of In Jo king of Cho-Seon Dynasty) after studying preface, contents and acknowledgement of Heo Im's "Chim Ku Kyeong Hearn Bang(öÝ϶ÌèúÐÛ°)". 4) The philosophic background of "Sa-Am Acupuncture Method(ÞìäÜöÝÛö)" seems to be derived from the theories of "I Ching(ñ²æ¶)" and Yin Yang 5 Element Theory(ëäåÕçéú¼ùÊàã), and to be influenced by such medical scholars as Tan Ke(Ó¡Í¢), Woo Bak(éåÚÑ), and Heo Im(úÉìò).
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