Chinese creates “music therapy” most early

    Music therapy, is refers to the application music art to treat the method which illness gets sick. Hands down Fu Xi to make the Chinese zither, Lady Wa makes the reed, creates the music and plays the law, formulates the happy law. But application music treats illness sickness, as early as "Lushih Chunchiu" had some in the Warring States time to record.

    According to "Lushih Chunchiu · Ancient music" carries: “past Tao beginning of the Tang, is stagnant much cloudy, but zhan product, canal clogged up not good its original, popular morale Yu Yaner is stagnating, the physique cowers not to reach, does intentionally the dance by guidance it. “this record reflected quite Yu the Yao Shi Clan commune last stage, the flood creates disaster, once caused the people to have " the physique cowers " and so on vigorous sickness. But the people use " the dance " to move the body to treat this kind of vigorous sickness. May deduce, because at that time had some simple musical instrument production, then this kind " the dance " is inevitably carries on under musical instrument's accompaniment. May think that this is our country people application music and the dance treats illness to get sick records most early.

    To the Warring States the Qin and Han Dynasty, some medical scientist application music therapy treated the experience which illness got sick to be possible saying that was very already rich. "the Medical Classic of the Yellow Emperor · Spirit Pivot shaft · Five Sound Five senses" in had five sounds to treat the record which illness gets sick. So-called five sounds, namely: The palace, business, the angle, draft, the feather five kind of different scales (to distinguish quite in present's music numbered musical notation approximately 1, 2, 3, 5, 6). Five sounds separately with the five internal organs match, namely: As soon as liver one jiao, the heart drafts, a spleen palace, a lung business, a kidney feather. The different music, stimulated or the retrogression is dissimilar to the internal organs function. The medicine is according to the music different melody, the rhythm, the timbre, the volume, the tonality treats each different type illness to get sick. The modern research indicated that the reason that music can treat illness sickness, is mainly music has two aspect functions to the human body:

    First, physical effect. According to the research, the human body to each kind of organ's activity, has certain vibrational frequency. When the human body is sick, organ's vibrational frequency has the change even mutually to have the disturbance. But music is one kind of orderly sound wave vibration, the different music has the different vibrational frequency. The patient acts according to own condition, elects to listen to the corresponding music, may play corrects organ's vibrational frequency role, and causes between the various organs' vibrational frequency coordination, thus serves the purpose which treats an illness;

    Second, psychologic effect. Because human body each kind of activity is controlled in the nervous system, how therefore does patient's state of mind, have the very vital significance regarding the treatment. The wonderful music through the human body cerebrum limbic system and network structure's control action, may enhance the nerve cell the excitability, enables person's mood to be improved. At the same time, through music to the nerve and nerve-body fluid's adjustment, can promote to enter the body to secrete many kinds of is beneficial in the healthy hormone, the enzyme and the acetylcholin and so on has the biological activity material, thus may improve human body each kind of function, like the adjustment blood flow, the promotion blood circulation, strengthens the stomach creeping motion, strengthens metabolism and so on.

    Treats an illness the understanding deepening along with the people to music, at present in the world many national like Australia, Japan, India and so on have widely carried out music therapy. Meanwhile, our country also strengthened music to treat the research which and the application illness got sick. in September, 1984, the Hunan Province Mawangdui sanatorium originated our country first psychology music treatment room. in 1985 this treatment room and Changsha People's Hospital Medical instrument Factory cooperation, developed one kind to have the world advanced level large-scale multi-purpose microcomputer control music therapeutic equipment together. 19877 year in May, they recorded with the Hunan Province audio and video publishing house have published our country first box of music treatment magnetic tape.