Shānghán biāoběn xīnfǎ lèicuì 傷寒標本心法類萃
Categorized Collection of the Heart-of-the-Method on Cold-Damage Branch-and-Root Doctrine attributed to 劉完素 (Liú Wánsù, ca. 1110 – ca. 1200, 金)
About the work
A short Jīn-period treatise in two juan that re-frames the Shānghán lùn’s clinical doctrine through Liú Wánsù’s “fire-and-heat” 火熱 doctrinal lens, organized by the biāoběn 標本 (branch and root) framework. The work argues — characteristically of Liú’s school — that the six excesses (六氣) all transform into fire, so that even what Zhāng Jī treats as cold-damage must be addressed through cooling and clearing prescriptions rather than the warming-and-dispelling formulas of the Shānghán canon.
Abstract
Attribution to Liú Wánsù is traditional; the text is preserved in the Héjiān liù shū 河間六書 (河間六書, the canonical collection of Liú’s works) and is uncertain whether it is by Liú himself or by a Yuán-period disciple. The composition window (ca. 1172–1200) is given as Liú’s mature period, where the fire-and-heat doctrine was most fully developed. Modern textual studies (Mǎ Jìxīng 1988) regard the work as substantially Liú’s, with later editorial additions. Like all of Liú’s Shānghán writings, this treatise was central to the YuánMíng Héjiān 河間 school’s clinical curriculum.
This is a doctrinal commentary on the Shānghán tradition; the parent canonical text is KR3ef001.
Translations and research
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Sòng-Yuán Shānghán xué shù yán-jiū (1988) — substantial treatment.
- Hinrichs and Barnes, Chinese Medicine and Healing (2013), pp. 119–145 — Goldschmidt on the Jīn-Yuán schools.
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located on this specific work.
Links
- See KR3ef011 (Liú Wánsù Shānghán zhígé 傷寒直格).
- See KR3ef034 (a derivative work in the Liú-school line).
- 傷寒標本心法類萃 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB