Complete Annotations and Modern Translation of Treatise on Cold Damage

Complete Annotations and Modern Translation of Treatise on Cold Damage is one volume in the "Complete Annotations and Modern Translation of Classic Chinese Medical Works" series, edited by Zhang Jingming and Chen Zhenlin. Using the Song edition of the Treatise on Cold Damage reproduced by Zhao Kaimei of the Ming dynasty as its base text, it provides item-by-item annotation and vernacular translation of the original work by Zhang Zhongjing of the Eastern Han. The book follows the old Song edition format, divided into ten volumes and twenty-two chapters: Volume 1 contains the Methods for Diagnosing Pulses and Methods for Assessing Pulses; Volume 2 contains the Discussion of Cold Damage, the chapter on diagnosing and treating the pulse patterns of spasm, dampness, and heatstroke, and the first part of diagnosing and treating the pulse patterns of greater yang disease; thereafter come the middle and lower chapters on greater yang disease, the chapters on yang brightness, lesser yang, greater yin, lesser yin, and terminal yin diseases, then the chapters on diagnosing and treating cholera, on yin-yang transmission and relapse from overexertion after recovery, and the "permissible and impermissible" chapters on what may and may not be treated by sweating, what may and may not be treated by vomiting, what may and may not be treated by purging, and treatment after sweating, vomiting, and purging. The editors retain the "permissible" and "impermissible" chapters that are often omitted in commonly circulated editions, and append a review of research on the Treatise on Cold Damage, prefaces including the Preface to the Engraved Complete Works of Zhang Zhongjing, the Preface to the Treatise on Cold Damage, and the Collection of the Treatise on Cold Damage and Sudden Illness. The book ends with references and a formula index, making it easy for readers to look up passages by formula and study the principles through the passages, and to gain a complete understanding of the Song edition of the Treatise on Cold Damage and its six-channel pattern-differentiation and treatment system.