Shānghán lùn yì 傷寒論翼
Wings to the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders by 柯琴 (Kē Qín, zì Yùnbó 韻伯, fl. Kāngxī 1660s–1680s, 清)
About the work
A two-juan supplement and theoretical companion to 柯琴 Kē Qín’s larger Shānghán lái sū jí 傷寒來蘇集 (KR3ef013) — Kē’s general comprehensive commentary on the Shānghán lùn. The Yì (literally “wings”) presents 13 systematic essays on key doctrinal problems in the cold-damage canon, including the six-channel framework, the yīngwèi 營衛 doctrine, the relation of Shānghán to wēnbìng 溫病, and the pharmacology of the principal canonical formulas. The work is widely read alongside the Lái sū jí as the doctrinal underpinning of Kē Qín’s “channel-pattern” approach.
Abstract
The composition date falls in the same Kāngxī period (ca. 1669–1674) that yielded the Shānghán lái sū jí. Kē Qín, a native of Cíxī 慈溪 (Zhèjiāng) who studied with the 喻昌 Yú Chāng tradition, was one of the most influential Qīng commentators on the Shānghán canon. His distinctive contribution is the systematic re-organization of the Shānghán materials by channel-pattern (證) rather than by 王叔和 Wáng Shūhé’s manuscript-traditional sequence — an organizational principle that has dominated Chinese-medicine pedagogy ever since. The Yì’s essays argue for this re-organization on doctrinal grounds drawn from the Sùwèn “Rè lùn” 熱論 and from Yú Chāng’s earlier doctrinal work, while distancing Kē Qín from Yú on key clinical questions (notably the indication for moxibustion).
This is a commentary on the Shānghán lùn (KR3ef001); the parent text is set in the frontmatter commentedTextid.
Translations and research
- Mitchell, Wiseman, and Féng, Shāng Hán Lùn: On Cold Damage (Paradigm, 1999), introductory matter discusses Kē Qín’s commentary line.
- Lǐ Yáo 李姚, Kē Qín Shānghán xué shù sī xiǎng yán-jiū 柯琴傷寒學術思想研究, Beijing: Zhōng-yī-yào, 1995.
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
Links
- See KR3ef013 and KR3ef014 for Kē Qín’s parallel Shānghán lái sū jí.
- 傷寒論翼 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB