Jǐshì Shényàn Liángfāng 濟世神驗良方
Divinely Tested Excellent Formulas for Saving the World anonymous compilation, Qīng dynasty
About the work
A late-Qīng anonymous popular-charity formulary in the shànshū 善書 (morality-book) tradition, presenting “divinely-tested” (shényàn — formulas authenticated by their proven clinical results) recipes for both common and dangerous conditions. The work is structured by mén (clinical category): the opening section is the Yēgé mén 噎隔門 (oesophageal obstruction / dysphagia of the yēgé type — what late-Imperial physicians regarded as a particularly dread terminal condition), followed by entries on emergency rescue, internal medicine, gynaecology, paediatrics, dermatology, and so on.
Prefaces
The KR source KR3ed109_000.txt opens directly with the Yēgé mén and has no preface preserved in the digital edition. The work is anonymous and undated.
Abstract
The work is representative of the anonymous late-Qīng popular-formulary genre — the shànshū / charitable-publication tradition through which formularies were distributed without copyright or author-claim by Buddhist, Confucian, and folk-religious charitable societies. Without preface or named author, the dating cannot be tightened beyond the wide late-Qīng bracket.
The opening Yēgé mén fascicle is interesting for its frank discussion of the prognosis in yēgé (oesophageal obstruction) and fānwèi (regurgitation): the editorial note distinguishes these conditions, arguing against the common late-Qīng conflation of gé (block, Gézhèng) and gé (chamber, Gézhèng) as terms for the same condition, and warns that fānwèi once established is an jíwēidǔ zhī zhèng (extremely-perilous-condition). The recipes given — Shénxiān duómìng dān (a wūméi / náoshā / xiónghuáng / bǎicǎoshuāng + green-bean/black-bean compound) and the Lándiànzhī (woad-extract) treatments — derive from the standard late-Míng to early-Qīng formularies for these dread conditions.
The work belongs to the same family as KR3ed103 Jíjiù biànfāng, KR3ed110 Shénxiān jǐshì liángfāng, and KR3ed108 Yànfāng xīn biān — but in a smaller-scale, anonymous, more strongly shànshū (charity-publication) framing.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located on this specific recension. The genre context is treated in:
- Catherine Despeux, Médecine, religion et société dans la Chine médiévale (Paris, 2010) — for the shànshū genre.
- Bian, He. Know Your Remedies (Princeton, 2020) — for the popular-pharmacy print culture.
Links
- Cognate Qīng anonymous emergency-formularies: KR3ed103, KR3ed108, KR3ed110.
- 濟世神驗良方 (jicheng.tw)
- Kanseki DB