Dān Xī Mài Jué Zhǐ Zhǎng 丹溪脈訣指掌
The Danxi Palm-Pointing Pulse Songs edited by 劉吉人 (Liú Jírén, fl. late Qīng / early Republican); attributed to the 朱震亨 (Zhū Zhènhēng / Dānxī 丹溪) tradition
About the work
A one-juan late-Qing pulse manual edited by Liú Jírén that presents itself as a transmission of the Dānxī-tradition pulse mnemonics. The book opens with a tabular Six channels of the right and left hands schema setting out the pulse signatures expected at each of the six wrist positions, then proceeds through the standard twenty-eight pulse types with mnemonic exposition. The framing as Dānxī material is in keeping with the late-Qing Zhèjiāng-medical revival, in which the early-Yuán Zhū Zhènhēng was claimed as a doctrinal ancestor by a wide range of incommensurable schools; the pulse content itself is largely the late-Qing standard (Cuī Jiāyàn mnemonic + Lǐ Shízhēn twenty-seven pulses + Lǐ Zhōngzǐ twenty-eight).
Prefaces
KR3eb041_000.txt opens directly with the body table; no dated authorial preface is preserved. The conventional dating to late Qing / early Republican follows the catalog meta (清) and the editorial style; the book belongs to the same late-Qing pulse-mnemonic revival that produced the Zhōu Xuétíng Sān zhǐ chán KR3eb021 and the later Liú Běnchāng Mài jué xīn biān KR3eb030.
Abstract
Liú Jírén 劉吉人 is otherwise undocumented; the catalog meta records him as the compiler / editor. The book is one of several late-Qing pulse manuals that purport to transmit “Dānxī” 丹溪 material — the title evoking Zhū Zhènhēng’s Zhǐ zhǎng tú shuō KR3eb012 but presenting different material. The attribution should be regarded as a marketing convention rather than a textual filiation; the work is best read as a late-Qing pulse-mnemonic compilation in the popular jiētī 階梯 (stepwise primer) genre.
Translations and research
- No Western-language translation exists.
- No substantial secondary literature located.
Links
- Compare other Dānxī-attributed pulse texts: KR3eb012 Mài jué zhǐ zhǎng bìng shì tú shuō.
- 丹溪脈訣指掌 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB