Historical Records of Music Therapy in China

Traditional Chinese medicine has "five sounds and five elements". The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine (HUNDI NEIJING) records that "there are five tones in heaven, and five organs in man; there are six rhythms in heaven, and six bowels in man". The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine states, "There are five sounds in heaven; there are five organs in man; there are six rhythms in heaven, and six bowels in man." It also states, "The horn is the sound of wood through the liver, the symbol is the sound of fire through the heart, the palace is the sound of earth through the spleen, and the feather is the sound of water through the kidney." Ancient Chinese philosophy believes that everything in the universe is made up of five elements: wood, fire, earth, gold and water, and their interactions with each other are called the "Five Elements", while the Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng and Feather make up the "Five Sounds". The relationship between the five elements and the five organs is that the liver is wood, the heart is fire, the spleen is earth, the lungs are gold, and the kidneys are water. These records with the theory of traditional Chinese medicine clearly articulates the "five sounds", "five organs" and the gas of the five ways of movement of the intrinsic connection, according to this theory of the five sounds can play a role in the corresponding five organs, such as the horn sound is wood, through the liver, can control anger, that is, "through the liver to relieve anger. For example, the angular sound is wood, which is connected to the liver and can control anger, i.e., "to relieve anger through the liver"; the levitation sound is fire, which is connected to the heart, and the use of levitation can "nourish yin and help the heart". These theories belong to the scope of the music treatment of disease

The famous doctor of Qin in the Spring and Autumn period of China also discussed the relationship between music and human body and mind, and he believed that: selective and rhythmic music is conducive to physical and mental health.

Ju Zhenheng, a famous doctor in the Yuan Dynasty, clearly pointed out that "music is also medicine." Advocating the use of music as a spiritual therapy.