Shanghan Lun: Zabing Lun (Simplified Chinese

Shanghan Lun
The Shanghan Lun (simplified Chinese: 伤寒论; traditional Chinese: 傷寒論; pinyin: Shānghán Lùn) is a part of Shanghan
Zabing Lun (simplified Chinese: 伤寒杂病论; traditional Chinese: 傷寒雜病論; pinyin: Shānghán Zábìng Lùn), and also known
in English as the Treatise on Cold Damage Diseases[1], Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders or the Treatise on Cold Injury. It is
a Traditional Chinese Medicine treatise that was compiled by Zhang Zhongjing sometime before 220 AD, at the end of the Han
dynasty. It is amongst the oldest complete clinical textbooks in the world (cf. Carakasaṃhitā and the Hippocratic Corpus). It is
considered as one of the four canonical works of Traditional Chinese Medicine, along with Huang Di Nei Jing, Jin Gui Yao Lue,
and Wen Bing Xue.
Contents
Surviving Editions
Contents
See also
References
Surviving Editions
1. Song dynasty edition. Collated by scholastic ministers Gao Baohen, Lin Yi, and
Sun Qi under the order of the emperor and published in 1065 AD. Reprinted in
the Ming dynasty.[2]
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]
3. 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]
4. Kang Ping edition. Kang Ping is the name of the period from 1058-1068 AD in
the Kōhei era 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 the Han
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. Shanghan
Lun(Manuscript)
Contents
The Shanghan Lun has 398 sections with 113 herbal prescriptions, organised into the Six Divisions corresponding to the six
stages of disease:
Tai Yang (太陽, greater yang[1]): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache.
Therapy: sweating.
Yang ming (陽明, yang brightness[1]): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills,
distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminating.
Shao yang (少陽, lesser yang[1]): half exterior, half interior half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort,
alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizing.
Tai yin (太陰, greater yin[1]): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with
supplementing.
Shao yin (少陰, lesser yin[1]): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy:
warming with supplementing.
Jue yin (厥陰, reverting yin[1]/absolute yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with
supplementing.[3]
See also
Chinese herbology
Chinese patent medicine
Six levels
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Jingui Yaolüe, another surviving part of Shanghan Zabing Lun
References
1. "WHO International Standard Terminologies on Traditional Medicine in the Western Pacific Region" (http://www.w
pro.who.int/publications/who_istrm_file.pdf) (PDF).
2. Shang Han Lun Translated and Edited by Hong-Yen Hsu and William G. Peacher, Oriental Healing Arts Institute;
Los Angeles, 1981
3. 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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