Shānghán biàn yào jiān jì 傷寒辨要箋記

Annotated Notes on Discriminating the Essentials of Cold Damage by 程門雪 (Chéng Ménxuě, 1902–1972, 民國 / 中華人民共和國)

About the work

A twentieth-century notebook-style Shānghán commentary by the Shanghai Shānghán-school physician 程門雪 Chéng Ménxuě (1902–1972), Founding President of the Shanghai University of TCM. The work belongs to the genre of jiān jì 箋記 — annotated reading-notes — and records Chéng’s clinical reflections on key passages of the Shānghán lùn, organized as marginalia rather than as a systematic clause-by-clause commentary.

Abstract

The Kanripo source file is effectively empty (header only) — body content has not been digitized into the jicheng.tw edition Kanripo carries. The work is known from external bibliographic evidence: it is listed in modern bibliographies of Chéng Ménxuě’s collected writings and circulates among Shanghai-school clinicians as a personal-notebook record of Chéng’s Shānghán teaching. The composition window 1930–1972 brackets Chéng’s productive Shanghai practice and his death.

The catalog meta gives no dynasty — the correct designation is Mínguó 民國 / early-PRC, since Chéng died in 1972. The Kanripo listing under the Shānghán section is appropriate to the work’s genre, but readers should be aware that this is a twentieth-century work rather than an imperial-period one.

For the actual content, see modern editions of Chéng Ménxuě’s collected works (e.g. Chéng Ménxuě yī àn 程門雪醫案 and related compilations).

Translations and research

  • No substantial English-language translation located.
  • Modern Shanghai TCM scholarship has produced retrospective studies on Chéng Ménxuě’s clinical method — see entries in Shànghǎi mínglǎo zhōngyī yī’àn jīnghuá 上海名老中醫醫案精華.

Other points of interest

The Kanripo source file is essentially empty — body content was not digitized into the jicheng.tw base edition. Researchers needing the actual text should consult modern reprints of Chéng’s collected writings.