Zhōnghán lùn biànzhèng guǎng zhù 中寒論辯證廣註
Discriminating-Syndrome Extensive Commentary on the Treatise on Central Cold by 汪琥 (Wāng Hù, zì Yìnxí 苓友, fl. late Kāngxī, 清)
About the work
A three-juan companion to 汪琥 Wāng Hù’s principal Shānghán commentary (KR3ef045), addressing the parallel “zhōnghán” 中寒 (central / true cold-damage) tradition. The work clarifies the distinction — central in SòngJīn medical doctrine — between shānghán (external cold-damage, addressed by the Zhāng Jī canon) and zhōnghán (direct attack on the interior by cold, requiring different therapeutic principles).
Abstract
Composition window 1680–1689 brackets Wāng’s continuing editorial activity on the Shānghán and zhōnghán topic in the mid-Kāngxī period. The doctrinal distinction between shānghán and zhōnghán was a central late-imperial debate, with major disagreements between commentators about which canonical Shānghán prescriptions properly belong to which category. Wāng’s treatise is one of the more systematic Qīng treatments.
Translations and research
- See KR3ef045 for shared bibliography.
Links
- See KR3ef045 (Wāng’s principal commentary).
- 中寒論辯證廣註 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB