Shānghán lái sū jí 傷寒來蘇集
Collection of Reviving from Cold Damage by 柯琴 (Kē Qín, zì Yùnbó 韻伯, fl. late 17th c., 清)
About the work
The comprehensive Shānghán compilation of the great early-Kāngxī commentator 柯琴 Kē Qín, in eight juan, traditionally bound together with the Shānghán lùn yì 傷寒論翼 (KR3ef007) and the Shānghán fù yì 傷寒附翼 (KR3ef033) as a four-part set under the Lái sū jí umbrella title. This is the foundational text of Kē Qín’s “channel-pattern” (以證類證) school of Shānghán exegesis: rather than following 王叔和 Wáng Shūhé’s manuscript sequence, Kē reorganizes the Shānghán materials by clinical syndrome (證), then prescription. This organizational principle has dominated Chinese-medicine pedagogy from the late Qīng through the present.
Abstract
The composition window is the late Kāngxī period 1669–1674. Kē Qín — a native of Cíxī 慈溪 in Zhèjiāng who relocated to Yúshān 虞山 (Chángshú, Jiāngsū) — argued that Wáng Shūhé’s editorial sequence misrepresented Zhāng Jī’s clinical intent, and that the Shānghán materials should be re-grouped by symptomatic pattern. The result was a “Shānghánlùn zhù” (commentarial Cold-Damage Treatise) in 4 juan and an “Yì” (Wings) in 2 juan, together comprising the principal Láisū jí. The Fùyì (附翼, KR3ef033) — supplementary essays on key clinical-doctrinal problems — was added by Kē in his last years, and the Shānghán fǎ zǔ 傷寒法祖 (KR3ef042) is a posthumous arrangement by his disciple 任越庵 Rén Yuèān of unfinished material.
The Láisū jí is one of the four most-cited Qīng Shānghán commentaries, alongside 喻昌 Yú Chāng’s Shànglùn piān, 尤怡 Yóu Yí’s Shānghán guànzhū jí, and 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn’s Shānghán lùn lèifāng. Modern critical editions are based on the Si bù bèi yào 四部備要 (Shanghai, 1936) line.
Translations and research
- Mitchell, Wiseman, and Féng, Shāng Hán Lùn: On Cold Damage (Paradigm, 1999) — introductory matter discusses Kē Qín.
- Lǐ Yáo 李姚, Kē Qín Shānghán xué shù sī xiǎng yán-jiū (Beijing: Zhōng-yī-yào, 1995).
- Endymion Wilkinson, Chinese History: A New Manual, §35.7.1.
- No substantial Western-language translation located.
Links
- See KR3ef014, KR3ef007, KR3ef033, KR3ef042 (other Kē Qín works).
- 傷寒來蘇集 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB