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跌打損傷方

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Text ID
KR3el012
Date
1644–1911
Dynasty
清

Diēdǎ sǔnshāng fāng 跌打損傷方

Prescriptions for Fall-Blow Injuries attributed to 楊成博 Yáng Chéngbó (lineage-name).

About the work

A short single-juǎn Qīng-period shāngkē manual (ca. 12 kB) attributed to the lineage-name 楊成博 Yáng Chéngbó — the same pseudo-historical “founder” cited in the better-known and longer KR3ee051 Yáng Chéngbó xiānshēng yíliú xuédào mìshū 楊成博先生遺留穴道秘書. The two works belong to the same closed-lineage wǔshù-injury-medicine (“martial-arts traumatology”) manuscript tradition, in which a teacher-master figure is invoked as the originator of the transmitted body of knowledge. The present text is the shorter and more strictly prescription-oriented of the two, focusing on a 72-point lethal-anatomy atlas and standardised compound prescriptions for each region.

Prefaces

There is no preface or compiler-signature. The text opens directly with the body of the work — a brief diagnostic-prognostic introduction (“the human body’s circuit, by the Five Phases known of the zàngfǔ, by the six pulses examined to determine deficiency and repletion”) and an inventory of fatal symptoms.

Abstract

The Yáng Chéngbó lineage-attribution is the same pseudo-attribution that travels with the longer KR3ee051. The two texts share their core technical apparatus — the 72-point lethal-anatomy atlas, the shàng / zhōng / xià (upper / middle / lower body) prescription scheme, the Huíshēng dān / Tōngguān sǎn resuscitation formulary, and the use of mineral and animal-product ingredients (xióngdǎn 熊膽, zhūshā 硃砂, chénshā 辰砂, niúhuáng 牛黃, xījiǎo 犀角, shéxiāng 麝香, xiàngxuè 象血, shānyángxuè 山羊血) at higher concentration than the mainstream Jiāngnán shāngkē manuals. This points to a northern wǔshù-lineage origin distinct from the Wùyuán / Hángzhōu / Sūzhōu civilian shāngkē tradition exemplified by KR3el005, KR3el007, and KR3el011.

The text is conservatively dated to the Qīng (1644–1911) on grounds of vocabulary and the absence of Republican-era loanwords; the catalog’s “Qīng” assignment is followed here. No tighter bracket is defensible from internal evidence.

Structurally:

  1. General principles. Five-Phase / zàngfǔ / pulse diagnosis frame the work. Fatal signs are listed (no pulse, gaping mouth, eye-sclera blackening, sweat like oil, etc.).
  2. 72-point lethal anatomy. Shàngbù 上部 (24 points from head to chest), zhōngbù 中部 (24 points from chest to navel), xiàbù 下部 (24 points from navel to feet). Each point is given with its diagnostic-prognostic indications and the specific add-on drug for the standard shàngbù / zhōngbù / xiàbù decoction.
  3. Standard formulary. The three regional decoctions (shàngbù / zhōngbù / xiàbù) with common base-prescriptions (shēngdì 生地, dāngguī 當歸, chuānxiōng 川芎, chìsháo 赤芍, rǔxiāng 乳香, mòyào 沒藥 etc.) and condition-specific add-ons. The text departs sharply from the mainstream shāngkē tradition in including the relatively rare and toxic drug xījiǎo 犀角 (rhinoceros horn) for severe blood-attack-on-heart conditions.
  4. Specialised prescriptions. Xíngjūn píngān sǎn 行軍平安散 (the army-route safety powder, for revival via nostril-insufflation), Yuènèi sànxuè fāng 月內散血方 (a postpartum-injury formula), Tōngguān sǎn 通關散 (resuscitation powder), and a specific dǎshāng yāogǔ tiēfāng 打傷腰骨貼方 plaster for lumbar-spine trauma.

The work is significantly shorter and more bare-bones than KR3ee051, and reads as either a prescription-appendix or a derivative/excerpted handbook from the larger Yáng Chéngbó lineage manuscript tradition.

Translations and research

  • No standalone Western-language translation or monographic study located.
  • For the underground wǔshù-injury-medicine genre context see Stanley E. Henning, “Chinese Boxing: The Internal Versus External Schools in the Light of History and Theory,” Journal of Asian Martial Arts 6.3 (1997), 10–19.
  • 林伯原 《中國武術史》 (北京：人民體育出版社, 1996) — survey of the diǎnxué injury-medicine literature.
  • Modern reprint: 《海外回歸中醫善本古籍叢書》, 北京：人民衛生出版社.

Other points of interest

The text’s xiàbù (lower body) formulary includes chēqiánzǐ 車前子 and mùtōng 木通 — agents directed at the urinary tract, presumably for treating downstream effects of perineum or pelvic-region trauma. The opening anatomical-introduction passage almost certainly travelled with KR3ee051 in its original parent text and was excerpted here.

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