Jīnguì qǐyuè (Fùkē) 金匱啟鑰（婦科）
Opening the Lock of the Golden Cabinet (Gynecology Section) by 黃朝坊 (Huáng Cháofāng, late Qīng)
About the work
A five-juǎn gynecological section of 黃朝坊 Huáng Cháofāng’s larger medical compendium Jīnguì qǐyuè 金匱啟鑰. The work is organised topically beginning with hánrè lùn 寒熱論 (cold-and-heat discourse), with detailed sub-categories including níshī guǎfù hánrè 尼師寡婦寒熱 (cold-and-heat in nuns and widows — a Sòng-Yuán-Míng diagnostic category of female-celibacy pathology), wùhán 惡寒 (chill aversion), and the canonical tiáojīng / tāichǎn topics. The work’s polemical opening on cold-heat differential diagnosis criticises contemporary practitioners for routine biǎo-treatment (surface, i.e. exterior-resolving prescription) of conditions that should be diagnosed as interior-cold-yáng-deficiency syndromes, condemning the routine prescription of Wǔjī sǎn 五積散 and Jiǔwèi qiānghuó tāng 九味羌活湯 by practitioners without proper syndrome-discrimination.
Prefaces
The KR hxwd recension _001.txt opens with a substantial doctrinal-polemical opening on cold-heat differential. No separable author-preface is preserved in the recension head.
Abstract
黃朝坊 Huáng Cháofāng is a late-Qīng physician otherwise undocumented in standard biographical reference works. The catalog meta dynasty 清 is correct. Internal evidence — the explicit polemical position against routine Wǔjī sǎn / Jiǔwèi qiānghuó tāng prescription, and the work’s alignment with the late-Qīng wēnbǔ 溫補 (warming-tonifying) tendency in opposition to indiscriminate cooling-and-clearing — places the work firmly in the late-Qīng. notBefore 1850 / notAfter 1900 is a defensible bracket.
The jīnguì qǐyuè 金匱啟鑰 (“Opening the Lock of the Golden Cabinet”) title references 張仲景 Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Jīnguì yàoluè 金匱要略 (KR3e0007) as the classical canonical anchor, declaring the work an attempted qǐyuè “opening of the lock” (clarification of the obscure) of the gynecological section of the Jīnguì. The work belongs to the late-Qīng classical-formula-school (jīngfāngpài 經方派) tendency in gynecology, aligned with 徐大椿 Xú Dàchūn’s earlier programme (see KR3ei016 Nǚkē zhǐyào).
Translations and research
- Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- No dedicated study located.
Links
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- 金匱啟鑰（婦科） jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB
- 徐大椿 CBDB