Zhèngshì jiāchuán nǚkē wànjīn fāng 鄭氏家傳女科萬金方
The Zhèng Family’s Transmitted “Ten-Thousand-Gold” Gynecological Formulary anonymous (Zhèng-family lineage)
About the work
A one-juǎn anonymous gynecology transmitted through the Zhèng 鄭 family lineage. The work focuses on practical post-partum and obstetrical care, opening with the chǎnhòu mén 產後門 (post-natal section): detailed instructions for the immediate post-partum period — administration of tóngbiàn 童便 (child-urine) or jīngjièsuì 荊芥穗 decoction to prevent xuèyùn 血暈 (blood-vertigo), proper post-partum posture (raised pillows, knees bent, no immediate side-lying), avoidance of cold-floor drafts, dietary restrictions (no alcohol or rich foods for seven days), abdominal massage to disperse èlù 惡露 (lochia), and similar practical-care prescriptions. The work is a manual of obstetrical home-care rather than a systematic gynecological treatise.
Prefaces
The KR hxwd recension carries no separable preface; the text begins directly with the chǎnhòu mén section.
Abstract
The work is genuinely anonymous in the catalog meta (no author, no dynasty recorded). The “Zhèng family” attribution is a lineage-claim not a personal author. The work belongs to the same family-lineage gynecology tradition as KR3ei005 Fùkē mìfāng (Xúnxī Chénshì), KR3ei011 Jiāchuán nǚkē jīngyàn zhāiqí (anonymous family), and KR3ei033 Xuēshì jìyīn wànjīn shū (Xuē family). The wànjīn 萬金 (“ten-thousand gold”) title echoes the Xuē-family Jìyīn wànjīn shū title-pattern.
The work’s focus on immediate post-partum home-care positions it as a jiātíngyī (family-medical) practical manual rather than a literati-physician treatise. Composition is best bracketed in the late Míng to late Qīng (notBefore 1600 / notAfter 1900); the catalog meta’s dynasty 清 is consistent.
Translations and research
- Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
- No dedicated study located.
Links
- No verified Wikipedia or Wikidata entry located.
- 鄭氏家傳女科萬金方 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB