Shanghan Lun
TheShanghan Lun(traditional Chinese:Bệnh thương hàn luận;simplified Chinese:Bệnh thương hàn luận;pinyin:Shānghán Lùn;variously known in English as theTreatise on Cold Damage Diseases[1],Treatise on Cold Damage Disordersor theTreatise on Cold Injury) is a part ofShanghan Zabing Lun(traditional Chinese:Bệnh thương hàn tạp bệnh luận;simplified Chinese:Bệnh thương hàn tạp bệnh luận;pinyin:Shānghán Zábìng Lùn.It is aTraditional Chinese medicinetreatise that was compiled byZhang Zhongjingsometime before 220 AD, at the end of theHan dynasty.It is amongst the oldest complete clinical textbooks in the world (cf.Carakasaṃhitāand theHippocraticCorpus). It is considered one of the four canonical works of Traditional Chinese medicine, along withHuang Di Nei Jing,Jin Gui Yao Lue,andWen Bing Xue.
Surviving editions
[edit]- Song dynastyedition. Collated by scholastic ministers Gao Baohen, Lin Yi, and Sun Qi under the order of the emperor and published in 1065 AD. Reprinted in theMing dynasty.[2]
- Cheng Wuji's Annotated Treatise on Cold Damage. Extensively read in Japan and China, was widely circulated in Cheng's time. However, many transcriptions and re-transcriptions have stirred up disagreement as to whether it is true to the original.[2]
- Classic of the Golden Chamber and Jade Sheath. This book has the same content as the Song edition with other minor variations in context.[2]
- Kang Ping edition. Kang Ping is the name of the period from 1058 to 1068 AD in theKōheiera in Japan. It is indispensable for study because it retained the ancient style[2]of typesetting dated back to the era at the end of theHan dynasty.
The Song edition is organized into ten volumes including the first two chapters on pulse diagnosis; Cheng's edition is also organized into ten volumes but simplified; Classic of the Golden Chamber and Jade Sheath is organized into eight volumes.
Contents
[edit]TheShanghan Lunhas 398 sections with 113 herbal prescriptions, organised into the Six Divisions corresponding to the six stages or pathogenesis of disease, according to the international external relationships of Yin and Yang:
- Tai Yang (Thái dương,greater yang[1]): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy/Treatment principle: sweating.
- Yang ming (Dương minh,yang brightness[1]): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy/Treatment Principle: cooling and eliminating.
- Shao yang (Thiếu dương,lesser yang[1]): half exterior, half interior half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy/ Treatment Principle: harmonizing.
- Tai yin (Thái âm,greater yin[1]): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy/Treatment Principle: warming with supplementing.
- Shao yin (Thiếu âm,lesser yin[1]): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhoea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy/Treatment Principle: warming with supplementing.
- Jue yin (Xỉu âm,reverting yin[1]/absolute yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy/Treatment Principle: warming with supplementing.[3]
See also
[edit]- Chinese herbology
- Chinese patent medicine
- Six levels
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Jingui Yaolüe,another surviving part of Shanghan Zabing Lun
References
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- ^abcdefg"WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on June 23, 2015.
- ^abcdShang Han Lun Translated and Edited by Hong-Yen Hsu and William G. Peacher, Oriental Healing Arts Institute; Los Angeles, 1981
- ^Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage), Translation & Commentaries by Zhongjing Zhang, Feng Ye, Nigel Wiseman, Craig Mitchell, Ye Feng. Paradigm Press 2000
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