How to prevent epidemic in Song Dynasty

Epidemic prevention measures in song dynasty;

1. In the face of the spreading plague, the government gave relief, and folk doctors and local gentry also helped the local government to alleviate the disaster.

When Bianjing, the capital city of the Northern Song Dynasty, and Lin 'an, the capital city of the Southern Song Dynasty, were plagued by pestilence, the imperial court provided them with herbs, and the royal nobles donated money to help the poor.

2. Establish special temporary institutions and isolation places, and arrange special personnel to bury the dead.

3. The government-run pharmacy in Song Dynasty also played an important role in the process of preventing plague.

Because pharmacies are nominally directly under the central ruler, the government can directly order pharmacies to take medicine to relieve local people. In this process, Chinese medicine, especially local officials who specialize in medicine, have also accumulated a considerable number of prescriptions and prescriptions in the process of local governance and prevention of the epidemic, which has become a magic weapon for facing diseases in past dynasties.

Causes of plague outbreak in Song Dynasty

Compared with other dynasties, the Song Dynasty was not spared from serious disasters, which was not unrelated to the rapid expansion of the population in the Song Dynasty and the population gathering during the trip to the metropolis. Judging from the population statistics at that time, it reached more than 1 100 million, and there were many disasters of 100 in the historical records of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties.

Geographically, the geographical distribution of the plague in the Song Dynasty also shifted from north to south due to the population movement accompanying the political migration from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty. In addition, the development of the south is relatively backward, and miasma is also distributed. Hot and humid weather is also an important reason for the rampant disease.