Imagine going to your doctor with a complaint of frequent headaches.Your doctor takes aprescription andwrites a word on it. The word isn ’t “ aspirin ”, it ’s “ Mozart ”.
The idea is not so far-fetched. In China, instead of pills, doctors often recommend musicalalbums with names like insomnia or Heart, Liver and Lungs, and Chinese people “ take ” thesemusical piecesas prescriptions. In fact, in China music is prescribed as often asherbal medicine tohelp people with common, everyday problems or to strengthen organslike the liver or the kidneys.Other countries use music for healing as well. In Japan, Mendelssohn ’s “ SpringSong ”is oftenusedto treat headaches.And hospitals in India usedifferent kinds of music to treat mental illness.
Using music astherapy is not new. It datesback to the beginning of civilization, when peoplegot together to play music ob primitive drums and rattles. Music plays a part in every ritual andimportant life event, from weddings and funerals to crop planting and harvesting to marchingpeople into battle. There is even evidence that music was our first language. Scientists found that2/3 0f the tiny hairs insides human ears respond only to the higher frequency of music, whichshows that people probably sang before that talked.
Many kinds of music can stir the imagination and produce strong feeling. For some people,romantic composers such as Chopin and Tchaikovsky enhance feelings of love and compassion.Religious and spiritual music can help some people feel peace or lessen their pain. But onemusician seemsto have a unique ability to heal the human body — Mozart.Scientists have foundMozart ’s music to be remarkable in its ability to calm its listeners. It can also increase theirperception, andhelp them expressthemselves more clearly.
In China, doctors often give patients music and____________________________ tohelp people deal with their problems.
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