Shānghán sùyuán jí 傷寒溯源集
Collection Tracing the Origins of Cold Damage by 錢潢 (Qián Huáng, zì Tiānlái 天來, fl. early Kāngxī, 清)
About the work
A ten-juan Qīng commentary on the Shānghán lùn by the Sūzhōu physician 錢潢 Qián Huáng, published in 1707. The work follows the “ancient-text-restoration” line of 方有執 Fāng Yǒuzhí and 喻昌 Yú Chāng, but adds Qián’s own clinical adjustments — characteristically arguing that all Shānghán prescriptions must be understood in terms of underlying yīnyáng and biāoběn doctrinal categories rather than as standalone symptomatic responses. The work is structured juan by juan around the six channels.
Abstract
The composition date (1707) is fixed by Qián’s preface, signed Kāngxī 46. Qián Huáng — a contemporary of 張璐 Zhāng Lù and Yú Chāng in the early-Kāngxī Jiāngnán medical scene — is best known for this single work, in which he attempts to harmonize the Yú Chāng / Fāng Yǒuzhí revisionist program with elements of the older 成無己 Chéng Wúyǐ commentarial tradition. The Sùyuán circulated widely in the Qīng and is one of the more frequently cited early-Qīng Shānghán commentaries.
Translations and research
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Shānghán lùn jiào zhù (1991).
- Hinrichs and Barnes (2013), pp. 145–179 on the early-Qīng Shānghán schools.
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.