Orta Asya Türk Tıbbı Bağlamında Humoral Patoloji Teorisinin Farklı Dönemler, Kültürler ve Bölgeler İçindeki Değişiminin İncelenmesi

Abstract

Central Asian Turkish medicine covers the medical practices of Turkish communities spread over a wide geography over a period of hundreds of years. Research in this field to date has focused mostly on Uyghur medical texts. Our aim in this thesis is to examine the medical practices of Central Asian Turkish communities in different periods and to make a comparison on the basis of humoral pathology theory. In the study, medical and non-medical texts written in Turkish in the Central Asian region were examined and the information written on the basis of humoral pathology theory in these works was brought together. Then, the similarities and differences between this information were revealed and possible reasons for this situation were tried to be revealed. Turks living in Central Asia have not adhered to a single medical tradition throughout history, but have adopted different medical traditions. These traditions based on humoral pathology theory are Ancient Greek medicine, Indian medicine, Chinese medicine and Islamic medicine. It has been determined that the medical texts of Christian Turks were written on the basis of Ancient Greek medicine, the texts of Buddhist Turks were written on the basis of Indian medicine and Chinese medicine, and the texts of Muslim Turks were written on the basis of Islamic medicine. According to the information presented within the scope of this thesis study, it can be said that as the religions they belong to change, the perspective of Central Asian Turks on medicine also changes.