Qīngnáng quánjí mìzhǐ 青囊全集秘旨
Secret Principles of the Complete Green-Bag Collection by 黃廷爵 (Huáng Tíngjué, zì Hǔchén 虎臣; hào Sōngbǎilín 松柏林, fl. Guāngxù, 清) — late-Qīng army physician.
About the work
A late-Qīng jīnchuāng 金瘡 / diēdǎ 跌打 (battlefield-trauma and bone-setting) manual rooted in military-medic practice during the post-Tài-píng decades. Self-prefaced in Guāngxù 12 bǐngxū zhòngdōng (December 1886). Catalogued nominally in 4 juǎn (the preface’s fánlì references “按四卷金槍神藥治之”), but the Kanripo digitisation preserves only _000 (front matter and self-preface), _001, and _003 — juǎn 2 and 4 are missing from this capture; the work as preserved here is fragmentary. The catalog meta lists no author; Huáng’s self-preface makes the attribution unambiguous.
Abstract
The author’s zìxù 自序, dated 光緒丙戌仲冬 (1886), opens by lamenting the medical specialty’s neglect by literati. Huáng criticises mercenary battlefield bone-setters who “look at human life as if it were grass” (視人命如草芥) and describes the work as drawn from a family-transmitted Qīngnáng 青囊 (green-bag, the surgical-tradition emblem of Huà Tuó 華佗) collection emphasising acupoint precision for stabbing, slashing, and gunshot wounds. The fánlì lays out the work’s rules: clean prescriptions; bone-setting (nuójiē 挪接) by palpation, alignment, splinting with fir bark or bamboo, with seven-day re-inspection; cautions against indiscriminate stimulant or anti-bleeding drugs after concussive injury; emergency revival of unconscious patients by ligation, smoke inhalation, and bànxià 半夏 / nánxīng 南星 insufflation; yùzhēn sǎn 玉真散 for open wounds. The work is signed tóujūn yǐlái 投軍以來 — “since I joined the army” — confirming the author’s military-physician identity.
The text combines acupuncture-channel diagnostics for puncture wounds, classical bǔxuè 補血 prescriptions (sìwù tāng 四物湯 + Suōmù 蘇木 + hónghuā 紅花, bāzhēn 八珍, xījiǎo dìhuáng tāng 犀角地黃湯), procedures for bullet / projectile extraction, fracture reduction, and emergency resuscitation. The character is strongly oral / jiāchuán 家傳 — a manual reflecting the workflow of an actual late-Qīng army physician adapting classical Qīngnáng trauma traditions to modern campaigning with gunshot wounds. This makes it a rare and valuable witness compared to the much more numerous late-Qīng wàikē literati treatises.
Huáng Tíngjué’s lifedates and full biography are not documented; he came from Zhāotán 昭潭 (possibly in Húnán). Not in CBDB.
Translations and research
- Not widely studied in Western scholarship; no modern punctuated edition known.
- Catalogued in 中國中醫古籍總目 under late-Qīng 傷科 works.
Other points of interest
Late-Qīng military-medical compendia of this kind are far rarer in the print record than the literati wàikē treatises that fill most of the KR3ek division; the Qīngnáng quánjí mìzhǐ is one of the few datable, self-attributed witnesses to actual post-Tài-píng army medicine in the surgical genre. Its survival here even in fragmentary form gives it disproportionate documentary value.
Links
- 中國中醫古籍總目 (bibliographic listing)
- Kanseki DB
- 青囊全集秘旨