Miù Sōngxīn yīàn 繆松心醫案
Medical Case Records of Miù Sōngxīn by 繆遵義 Miù Zūnyì (Sōngxīn 松心, 1710–1793), of Wúxiàn 吳縣 (Sūzhōu).
About the work
A single-juǎn casebook of the mid-Qīng Sūzhōu physician Miù Zūnyì (hào Sōngxīn 松心), organised by syndrome. The text overlaps in clinical signature and patient-source-area with the closely related compilation KR3ep075 Sōngxīn yīàn bǐjì and may represent an independent transcription of overlapping case-material.
Prefaces
No transmitted preface in the hxwd source. The _000.txt opens directly with the first case (喘 — gasping respiration).
Abstract
Miù Zūnyì 繆遵義 (CBDB 91312, 1710–1793), hào Sōngxīn 松心 (also Tiānshū 天樞 in some sources), of Wúxiàn 吳縣 (Sūzhōu, Jiāngsū). A Qiánlóng yǐchǒu (1745) jìnshì; held minor official posts before turning to medicine in middle age. He was a contemporary of Yè Tiānshì in Sūzhōu and is sometimes grouped with the other major Sūzhōu late-Yè-school masters.
The cases proceed through 喘 (gasping respiration), 不寐 (insomnia), and other internal-medicine categories. The prescribing signature — Dàncài / Bāxìng / Kǎnqì / Màidōng / Chuānbèi; Báishā fāng (white-sand formula of Hǎigéké, Bái fúshí, Chántuì, Jìyúdǎn with silver) — is highly distinctive and identifies Miù as a meticulous practitioner of the Sūzhōu Yè-school light-and-precise prescribing style. The opening Chuǎn case explicitly invokes the Nèijīng yángqiáo / bùmèi (yáng-vessel insomnia) doctrine — a textbook display of canonical-doctrinal anchoring of Yè-school clinical practice.
The composition window 1740–1793 reflects Miù’s mature clinical decades through to his death.
Translations and research
No substantial secondary literature located. Some coverage in Hinrichs and Barnes 2013, pp. 198–199.
Links
- Sister Miù Zūnyì casebook: KR3ep075 Sōngxīn yīàn bǐjì.
- CBDB 91312.
- Kanseki DB
- 繆松心醫案