摘要：本文从灸法的起源、灸材的发展历程和艾的灸材主体地位确立时间等方面对艾灸起源进行了文献考证与合理推断，初步推测艾作为灸材使用出现在战国中期，约公元前300年左右，到战国后期和秦汉之间时，艾作为灸材的主体地位稳定下来。

    关键词：艾灸；起源；文献考证

    doi: 10.3969/j.issn.2095-5707.2014.04.013

    Textual Research on Origin of Moxibustion by Wormwood

    Xia Xunli

    (Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang Jiangxi 330004, China)

    Abstract: This article conducted textual research and legitimate inference from the following aspects: the origin of moxibustion, developing history of moxibustion materials and the time that wormwood was confirmed as the main material of moxibustion. It gave a preliminary presumption that wormwood as the material of moxibustion presented in the middle of War States Period, about 300 BC. However, wormwood as the main material of moxibustion was confirmed at the end of War States Period to Qin and Han dynasties.

    Key words: moxibustion by wormwood; origin; textual research

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