The Orthodox Transmission of Medicine
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students and teachers at Chinese medicine colleges, for studying the format and syndrome-treatment discussion of Ming dynasty comprehensive medical works
- Readers with a foundation in Chinese medicine who wish to understand how Zhu Danxi's scholarship unfolds across the various clinical departments
- Researchers concerned with the history of Chinese medical scholarship, especially Ming dynasty physicians' broad consultation of schools and critical attitude toward shamanistic arts
- Clinical Chinese medicine practitioners, for examining the compilation approach of syndrome division, pulse method, and formula treatment
Not a good fit for
- Complete beginners, for whom the many classical terms and pulse discussions in the book will create obstacles to understanding
- Readers who only want modern disease diagnosis and treatment plans and do not care about traditional scholarly lines
- Readers expecting light, short reading and lacking patience for lengthy syndrome discussions and formula treatments
Reading tips
- First read the fifty-one entries of "Medical Questions and Answers" at the beginning of the volume to grasp Yu's analytical stance and the book's overall purpose, then proceed to the syndrome-treatment sections of each department.
- Take notes by disease and syndrome section, recording the three layers of syndrome discussion, pulse method, and formula treatment for each section, forming an outline for review.
- When reading the syndrome-treatment sections based on Zhu Danxi's experience, compare them with the Inner Canon outline to appreciate his selections and developments.
- The passages criticizing incantation taboos and shamanistic arts and calculating illness by the five movements and six qi can be excerpted separately as clues for understanding Ming dynasty medical concepts.
About the publisher
Founded in 1989, Qunyan Publishing House has long been committed to publishing academic and educational books for mid- and high-level readers, and has built up a certain presence in Eastern philosophy, classical literature, and classic works. Representative titles available in the database include Records of the Grand Historian, Dream of the Red Chamber, Selections of Refined Literature, Complete Song Ci, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, Record of Daily Knowledge, Taiping Huimin Hejiju Fang, and The Collected Works of Wang Yangming, covering common categories such as ancient poetry, medicine, and examinations. Its author resources include Sima Qian, Cao Xueqin, Xiao Tong, Li Shan, Pu Songling, and Gu Yanwu. The press also offers distinctive series such as the Biographical Series of the China Democratic League and the Historical Documents Series of the China Democratic League, and publishes research on historical documents, biographies, memoirs, and textbooks and academic works by League members. Public information is limited, and its overall publishing scale and complete catalogue require further verification.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序
- 卷之一
- 卷之二
- 卷之三
- 卷之四
- 卷之五
- 卷之六
- 卷之七
- 卷之八
FAQ
What role do the "Medical Questions and Answers" play in the whole book?
Which physicians' work mainly underlies the book's syndrome and treatment?
What is the book's attitude toward shamanistic arts and calculating illness by the five movements and six qi?
Is this book suitable for looking up formulas by disease?
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About the author
Yu Tuan was a physician of the Ming dynasty. Publicly available sources offer limited information about his life, and details such as his dates, native place, and courtesy name are difficult to verify today. His extant representative work, and the only work by him included in this collection, is the Medical Rectitude (Yixue Zhengzhuan), commonly classified under medicine. The book is a comprehensive medical work covering both medical theory and various clinical specialties, reflecting an approach that organizes earlier doctrines while adding the author's own views; its language aims at clarity so that later students can follow it. Given the scarcity of historical records, his life and intellectual lineage should not be over-inferred. An understanding of Yu Tuan's medical outlook must still rely mainly on the arguments and structure of the Medical Rectitude itself. Later physicians' citations of and study of this book have also secured it a place in the transmission of Chinese medical literature.
