Antiquity. A structure of a human body

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Between pozavcherashnim in the afternoon of deep darkness and in the afternoon when the person has cleared up, millenia, the periods of time uncountable and not giving in to calculation lie.

How the ancient people had an integral representation about a structure of a human body and its functions, to tell difficultly as the people divided by the seas, mountains and the rivers, had rather different views and knowledge, and certificates of it available in our disposal, certainly, are rather not numerous. The general for the majority of the people and epoch was fear to dismember a human body, to make ' opening '. It almost everywhere also was always forbidden by laws. In many countries the belief that the person should appear before God such what it was during lifetime dominated. This belief, and from here and an interdiction of a partition of a body we find already at ancient Chineses who very long played a huge role in spiritual development of mankind.

According to existing position anatomy and physiology, that is sciences about a structure of a body and its functions, long time were only a heap of any assumptions. To penetrate into the world of these fantastic heaps, it is necessary to recollect that on views of ancient Chineses, the body has five main interiors - heart, lungs, kidneys, a liver and a spleen - and others five, ' subsidiary ' interiors - a stomach, a small intestines, thick intestines, mochetochnik and a bilious bubble. But also it is possible to consider such sights already rather progressive as, undoubtedly, within millenia they were preceded by even more deformed representations. And, of course, such ' the anatomy ' in some measure contacted system of constellations, with elements, seasons, liking and an antipathy.

The Greatest impression on people always made heart when they saw its start and palpation at even live animal. Heart, they spoke, the first of interiors; mother of heart - a liver, and sons of heart - a stomach and a spleen (these two bodies were considered as something uniform). Therefore the liver, and the enemy - a kidney was considered as the friend of heart. Heart is subordinated to fire, its season - summer, time of day - midday hours, a part of the world - the south. Its colour - red, taste - bitter. It is similar to the semidismissed flower of a water lily, is located under lungs and leans against one of vertebras. In heart thin juice contains, it has a network of apertures and three cracks. The heart problem - to accept digestive juice, to process it and to transform into blood. Anatomo-physiological representations about heart in ancient China were that, which else very long time were taught and studied.