Pǔjì fāng · Zhēnjiǔ mén 普濟方·針灸門
Universal Relief Formulary, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Section by 朱橚 Zhū Sù (奉敕撰) et al.
About the work
The acupuncture-and-moxibustion gate (Zhēnjiǔ mén) of the Pǔjì fāng 普濟方, the colossal early-Míng formulary compiled by 朱橚 Zhū Sù (Prince Zhōudìng 周定王, 1361–1425, fifth son of the Hóngwǔ emperor) and his princely-establishment medical staff at Kāifēng, presented to the throne in 1406 (Yǒnglè 4). The whole Pǔjì fāng is 168 juan and 61,739 prescriptions — the largest premodern Chinese medical formulary by any measure — and the Zhēnjiǔ mén occupies approximately 40 juan as a self-contained acupuncture treatise that absorbs almost the entire earlier acupuncture corpus (the Sùwèn, Língshū, Jiǎyǐ jīng, Tóngrén shùxué, Zhēnjiǔ zīshēng jīng, Yùlóng jīng, the Biāoyōu fù, etc.) into a head-to-foot symptom-organized clinical reference. The text reproduced here in jicheng.tw is the separately-circulating Zhēnjiǔ mén extract, with a phonological supplement (the Fùlù zhíyīn lüè 附錄直音略) for difficult medical-vocabulary characters.
Tiyao
The Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào (Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi) carries a tiyao for the whole Pǔjì fāng and notes that the Zhēnjiǔ mén preserves substantial material from the lost Yuán acupuncture canon — including portions of texts otherwise unknown. The whole work was not printed during the Míng (it survived only in manuscript in the Hànlínyuàn library) until the Qīng Sìkù copyists recovered it.
Abstract
The Zhēnjiǔ mén of the Pǔjì fāng is the single largest synthesis of pre-Míng acupuncture knowledge ever assembled. Its organization is symptom-first: each clinical condition is given with its standard channel-analysis, its etiology drawn from the Nèijīng tradition, the relevant acupoints with needling depth and moxibustion dose, and the cross-references to the parallel formulary section in the rest of the Pǔjì fāng. The work preserves portions of the Sòng Shèngjì zǒnglù 聖濟總錄 acupuncture sections that are otherwise lost, and the Yuán Yùlóng jīng (KR3ee008) verses that vary from the SKQS recension. Modern critical scholarship (黄龍祥 Huáng Lóngxiáng) treats the Zhēnjiǔ mén as a primary witness for the early-Míng state of the acupuncture canon prior to 徐鳳 Xú Fèng’s Zhēnjiǔ dàquán (KR3ee002).
Translations and research
- 黄龍祥 Huáng Lóngxiáng, Zhōngguó zhēnjiǔ shǐ tújiàn (2003), early-Míng synthesis chapter.
- 李經緯 Lǐ Jīngwěi & 張志斌 Zhāng Zhìbīn (eds.), Zhōngyī gǔjí zhēnběn jíchéng 中醫古籍珍本集成 (multi-volume, 2010s), critical reprint of the Zhēnjiǔ mén.
Links
- Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào, Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi (under Pǔjì fāng).
- Wikipedia: 普濟方
- 普濟方·針灸門 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB