Shānghán xuán jiě 傷寒懸解
Suspended Explanation of [the Treatise on] Cold Damage by 黃元御 (Huáng Yuányù, zì Kūnzài 坤載, hào Yánxiá 研霞, 1705–1758, 清)
About the work
A fourteen-juan mid-Qiánlóng Shānghán commentary by the great Shāndōng physician and medical philosopher 黃元御 Huáng Yuányù (the catalog meta gives 黃玉璐 — a transcription error / alternate name in the 漢學文典 corpus, where the actual author is consistently Huáng Yuányù; both names refer to the same person). The work is part of Huáng’s comprehensive program to rebuild Chinese medicine on the foundations of the Huángdì nèijīng, Nán jīng, Shānghán lùn, and Jīnguì yàoluè — the “four canons” 四聖 of his system — and to displace the SòngJīnYuán doctrinal tradition that he saw as a betrayal of the originals.
Abstract
Composition is placed in 1748–1753 by Huáng’s prefaces and his other writings of the period (the Sùwèn xuán jiě 素問懸解 and Língshū xuán jiě 靈樞懸解 of 1753, the Nán jīng xuán jiě 難經懸解, the Jīnguì xuán jiě 金匱懸解 (KR3ef088)). Huáng was originally a literatus (eventually preparing for the jìnshì examination) but blinded in one eye by an incompetent physician, he turned to medicine and produced over the next two decades one of the most distinctive and idiosyncratic medical syntheses of the Qīng. The Xuán jiě presents the Shānghán lùn re-organized around Huáng’s own theoretical framework — zhōngqì 中氣 (central qi), fúchén 浮沉 (floating-sinking), and the four-elemental-images doctrine derived from his reading of the Yì jīng and the Sùwèn.
The catalog meta gives “黃玉璐” — this is a non-standard alternative reading or transcription error for 黃元御. In modern Chinese-medicine bibliography the author of the Xuán jiě and other works in the same series is uniformly given as 黃元御; following the standard scholarly reference (Mǎ Jìxīng 1991) over the catalog meta.
Translations and research
- Mǎ Jìxīng 馬繼興, Shānghán lùn jiào zhù (1991).
- Shēn Yǔ-fēi 沈玉飛, Huáng Yuányù yī xué tǐ xì yán jiū 黃元御醫學體系研究, Beijing: Zhōng-yī-yào, 2008.
- Hinrichs and Barnes (2013), 145–179 — Huáng Yuányù treated.
- No substantial Western-language secondary literature located.
Links
- See KR3ef054 (parallel Shānghán shuō yì 傷寒說意).
- See KR3ef088 (parallel Jīnguì xuán jiě 金匱懸解).
- 傷寒懸解 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB