Sòngběn bèijí jiǔfǎ 宋本備急灸法
Sòng Edition of Emergency Moxibustion Methods by 張渙 Zhāng Huàn; printed by 孫炬卿 Sūn Jùqīng
About the work
A single-juan Southern-Sòng emergency-moxibustion manual originally composed by the Tuánliànshǐ 團練使 張渙 Zhāng Huàn (a Southern-Sòng military-rank physician), and printed by 孫炬卿 Sūn Jùqīng in the late Southern Sòng. The Japanese transmission preserved the original Sòng block-print, which was rediscovered by the late-Qīng salt-monopoly official 陳衡山 Chén Héngshān in a Japanese book-market and brought back to China. The preface by 余瀳 Yú Jí — a friend of Chén Héngshān’s — explains: “韓愈 Hán Chānglí said, ‘the good physician does not look at whether the patient is thin or fat, he examines whether the mài is diseased or not, that’s all.’ If the mài is not diseased, even a thin person is not in danger; if the mài is diseased and the patient is fat, he dies. Yet there exist diseases of yōngjū fābèi 癰疽發背 [‘malignant carbuncle erupting on the back’] which arise gradually and erupt violently — by the time of explosive swelling, treatment is too late. In a poor village or remote alley, where can one get medicine? Vinegar-and-mustard qízhúmǎ jiǔ 騎竹馬灸 is unmatched for utility…” The work catalogs the standard emergency-moxibustion methods including the famous qízhúmǎ jiǔfǎ 騎竹馬灸法 (“riding the bamboo horse” moxibustion).
Abstract
The Sòngběn bèijí jiǔfǎ is a major Southern-Sòng emergency-treatment manual, surviving via the Japanese transmission. The work is registered in the Sòngshǐ Yìwén zhì and was distributed widely in the Southern Sòng but lost in China after the Míng; the present recension follows the Japanese-recovered Sòng block-print as re-edited by Chén Héngshān in the late Qīng. The Qízhúmǎ jiǔfǎ — moxibustion at acupoints determined by having the patient straddle a bamboo pole laid horizontally on the floor — is the principal popular-medicine method preserved here, and is widely cited in subsequent moxibustion manuals.
Translations and research
- 黄龍祥 Huáng Lóngxiáng, Zhōngguó zhēnjiǔ shǐ tújiàn (2003), Sòng emergency-moxibustion chapter.
Links
- Sìkù quánshū zǒngmù tíyào, Zǐbù · Yījiā lèi cúnmù.
- 宋本備急灸法 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB