Shānghán lùn yáng míng bìng shì 傷寒論陽明病釋
Exposition of the Yáng-Míng Disease in the Treatise on Cold Damage by 陸懋修 (Lù Màoxiū, zì Jiǔzhī 九芝, 1818–1886, 清)
About the work
A four-juan late-Qīng monograph on the yángmíng 陽明 conformation of the Shānghán lùn, by the leading Sūzhōu late-Qīng physician 陸懋修 Lù Màoxiū (Jiǔzhī 九芝), the principal continuator of the 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì wēnbìng tradition in late Qīng. The work belongs to a special genre — a Shānghán commentary devoted to a single conformation rather than the whole canon — and represents Lù’s substantive contribution to the long-running Shānghán / wēnbìng debate on the doctrinal status of the yángmíng phase.
Abstract
Composition window 1875–1884 is bracketed by Lù’s late Sūzhōu / Shànghǎi clinical period and the 1884 compilation of his Shìbǔzhāi yī shū 世補齋醫書. The work focuses on the canonical yángmíng conformation — clinically the Shānghán phase that overlaps most extensively with the wēnbìng tradition’s qì fēn 氣分 (qì-aspect) disease stage — and argues for a unified clinical framework in which Shānghán yángmíng and wēnbìng qì fēn are understood as a single therapeutic field. The “附：陽明餘論” (Appended: Supplementary Discussion of Yángmíng) section, preserved in the Kanripo source, illustrates Lù’s method: a wide-ranging citation of 喻昌 Yú Jiāyán, the Bìng yuán lùn 病源論, Wài tái mì yào 外台秘要, Qiānjīn fāng 千金方, and 沈芊綠 Shěn Qiānlǜ’s Jīnguì commentary, marshaled to argue that the yángmíng phase requires its own specialized treatment doctrine (“發斑全由胃熱…胃爛斑出”).
The work is one of the major late-Qīng Shānghán monographs and a principal vehicle for Lù’s distinctive Shānghán-wēnbìng synthesis. It is included in the Shìbǔzhāi yī shū 世補齋醫書 as one of Lù’s principal original contributions.
Translations and research
- Hanson, Marta. Speaking of Epidemics in Chinese Medicine (Routledge, 2011) — substantive treatment of the late-Qīng Shānghán / wēnbìng synthesis.
- Hinrichs and Barnes (2013), 145–179.
- No substantial English-language translation located.
Other points of interest
The work is unusual in late-Qīng Shānghán literature for its devotion to a single conformation: most late-Qīng monographs cover all six conformations or focus on a specific category of prescription. Lù’s choice of yángmíng reflects the late-Qīng clinical situation, in which the dominant prevailing epidemic disorders presented as yángmíng / qì fēn phase disease.
Links
- See KR3ea047 (Lù’s parallel Nèijīng yùnqì bìng shì).
- See KR3ef001 (parent Shānghán lùn).
- 傷寒論陽明病釋 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB