Yījīng dú 醫經讀
Readings from the Medical Classics by 沈又彭 (Shěn Yòupéng, fl. 1750–1780, 清) — author
About the work
The Yījīng dú in four juan is a mid-Qiánlóng topical abridgment of the Sùwèn and Língshū by Shěn Yòupéng 沈又彭 (zì Yáofēng 堯封), a physician of Pínghú 平湖 (Zhèjiāng) in the high-Qing era. The four juan are categorized as 平 (the healthy person, drawn from the Píngrén qìxiàng piān 平人氣象論), 病 (disease forms), 診 (diagnostics), and 治 (treatment principles). Each section excerpts the relevant Nèijīng passages in textual sequence and supplies brief headnotes — Shěn’s own clinical re-interpretations — that often part company with the major commentators. The first juan opens with Shěn’s editorial maxim: 醫不知病何由治，病醫不知不病何由知病 (“a physician who does not know illness cannot treat illness; an ill-doctor who does not know wellness cannot know illness”).
Prefaces
The opening juan (KR3ea043_000.txt) opens directly with the Píng jí 平集 (Wellness Anthology) and contains a polemical aside on the seven great treatises of the Sùwèn: Shěn baldly asserts liù qì nǎi hòu rén wěi zào 六氣乃後人偽造 (“the six climatic influences are a forgery by later people”). This is a striking dissent from the high-Qiánlóng consensus and aligns Shěn with 薛雪 Xuē Xuě’s KR3ea041 critical-textual posture. The polemic is, however, brief; Shěn does not develop it into a systematic argument and continues to use liùqì terminology in clinical sections.
Abstract
Shěn Yòupéng was active in mid-Qiánlóng Pínghú as a clinical physician and student of Xuē Xuě’s circle, although there is no evidence of formal apprenticeship. His three transmitted works:
- Shānghán lùn dúběn 傷寒論讀本, 1764 — re-ordered Shānghán lùn base text with notes.
- Yījīng dú 醫經讀, 1764 (KR3ea043) — the present work, a companion to the Shānghán re-ordering.
- Nǚkē jíyào 女科輯要, 1764 — gynaecological reference.
All three works were issued together as a small cóngshū and are best understood as a coordinated mid-Qiánlóng pedagogical effort. The Yījīng dú’s clinical-pragmatic orientation, with its open scepticism of the yùnqì cosmology, is characteristic of the high-Qiánlóng Sūzhōu / Pínghú milieu surrounding Xuē Xuě and 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì.
Translations and research
No substantial Western-language scholarship located. Modern reprint in Zhōngyī gǔjí xījiàn cóngshū.