Pánzhū jí tāichǎn zhèngzhì 盤珠集胎產症治
The Coiled-Pearl Collection on the Diagnostics and Therapy of Pregnancy and Childbirth by 單南山 Shàn Nánshān (late Qīng)
About the work
A three-juǎn (shàng / zhōng / xià) systematic obstetrical treatise by the late-Qīng physician 單南山 Shàn Nánshān. The work focuses specifically on pregnancy and childbirth (tāichǎn 胎產) — its companion work KR3ei053 Tāichǎn zhǐnán 胎產指南 is also by Shàn — distinguishing pregnancy disorders (tāiqián), labour (línchǎn), and post-partum (chǎnhòu) phases with careful syndrome-discrimination and prescribed formulas. The Pánzhū 盤珠 (“coiled-pearl”) title metaphorically frames the work as a chain of interconnected diagnostic pearls. The work opens with the canonical èzǔ 惡阻 (morning-sickness) section followed by month-by-month discussion of pregnancy disorders.
Prefaces
The KR hxwd recension _001.txt opens directly with the kǎo (examination) of èzǔ; no separable preface is preserved in the recension head.
Abstract
Shàn Nánshān 單南山 is a late-Qīng obstetrical specialist documented in Chinese-medicine bibliographic literature as the author of two coordinated works on pregnancy and childbirth: the present Pánzhū jí tāichǎn zhèngzhì and the Tāichǎn zhǐnán KR3ei053. The two works are sometimes printed together as a paired set. The catalog meta dynasty 清 is correct; internal evidence places Shàn in the late 18th / early 19th century. notBefore 1780 / notAfter 1820 is a defensible bracket.
The work follows the 孫思邈 Sūn Sīmiǎo Qiānjīn fāng / Chǎnbǎo (see KR3ei048) tradition of month-by-month pregnancy management: month-1 zújuéyīn (foot terminal-yīn / liver-channel) governance, month-2 zúshàoyáng (gall-bladder), month-3 zúshàoyīn (kidney), etc. This twelve-channel sequential governance of foetal development is one of the distinctive doctrines of the older Chinese obstetrical tradition.
The work belongs to the late-Qīng wave of specialised obstetrical literature (compare KR3ei055 Dáshēng biān, KR3ei057 Chǎnbǎo, KR3ei058 Tāichǎn xīnfǎ, KR3ei075 Xùzēng dàshēng yàozhǐ) that emerged out of the jiātíngyī (family-medical) tradition of practical obstetrical guidance.
Translations and research
- Yi-Li Wu, Reproducing Women: Medicine, Metaphor, and Childbirth in Late Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010 — for the Qīng popular obstetrical literature.
- No dedicated study located.
Links
- No verified Wikipedia or Wikidata entry located.
- 盤珠集胎產症治 jicheng.tw
- Kanseki DB