音乐作为艺术早已被人们所知晓。然而,音乐作为医学中的治疗手段与治疗方法却尚未为人们所共知。现代研究表明:音乐不仅具有重要的艺术价值;而且也是治疗人体多种疾病的良方。音乐治疗,古即有之。人类把音乐当成一种治疗疾病的方法和手段,远始于原始部落,古埃及便有“音乐为人类灵魂妙药”之说。罗马、希腊的一些历史名著也曾有过音乐治疗的记述,如大卫的竖琴,曾安抚过所罗门王忧郁不安的精神。我国古代亦有以戏代药的说法,并强调了音乐、戏曲不仅能象药物那样治疗疾病,而且还能医治精神创伤。 Music has long been known as art. However, the use of music as a medical treatment and treatment has not been well understood. Modern research shows that music not only has important artistic value, but also is a good remedy for various diseases in the human body. Music therapy, there are ancient. Human beings regard music as a method and means of treating diseases, beginning from the primitive tribes, ancient Egypt would have “music as the soul of the soul,” said. Some of the most famous historical works in Rome and Greece have also been recorded in the treatment of music, such as David’s harp, who had comforted Melancholy’s uneasy spirit. In ancient China, there was also a saying of using drugs for the generation of medicine instead of drugs, and emphasized that music can not only cure diseases like medicine, but also heal trauma.