Of the thirteen specialties in traditional medicine, one is that of using charms to treat patients. The famous Tang dynasty physician Sun Simao spent huge sums of money to learn spells and charms from various sources.
在《黃帝內經》、《千金翼方》、《諸病源候論》眾多醫書上更可以發現，符咒與傳統醫學的聯手出擊至少也有兩千年歷史。