Yīzōng jīnjiàn · Dìngzhèng Zhòngjǐng quánshū Jīnguì yàolüè zhù 醫宗金鑑·訂正仲景全書金匱要略註
Corrected Commentary on the Jīn-guì yào-lüè by 吳謙 (奉敕撰) and 劉裕鐸 (奉敕撰), under imperial commission
About the work
The Dìngzhèng Jīnguì yàolüè zhù 訂正金匱要略註 is the 8-juàn imperial-orthodoxy corrected commentary on Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Jīnguì yàolüè 金匱要略 — the chronic-disease and miscellaneous-disease companion to the Shānghán lùn — within the Qīng Yīzōng jīnjiàn compendium (KR3e0090 / KR3eu016). It is the second principal section of the Dìngzhèng Zhòngjǐng quánshū (KR3eu026), placed immediately after the 17-juàn Shānghán lùn commentary at the head of the compendium.
Abstract
The Jīnguì yàolüè — recovered from the Sòng Xiàozhèng yīshū jú 校正醫書局 collation of the late 11th century — has historically been less heavily commented than the Shānghán lùn. The Sìkù tíyào (cited in KR3e0090) explicitly notes that the imperial editors include the Jīnguì commentary because “the Jīnguì yàoluè, although less heavily disputed [than the Shānghán], has rare original elucidations from commentators — we criticise the doctrine for being insufficiently detailed.” The 8-juàn commentary thus performs the same imperial-orthodoxy-fixing function for the Jīnguì that the Shānghán commentary performs for the Shānghán lùn: clarifying obscurities, supplementing missing prescriptions, integrating SòngMíngQīng prior commentaries (including 趙以德 Zhào Yǐdé’s Yuán-period Jīnguì yùhán jīng yǎnyì, 喻昌 Yú Chāng’s Yīmén fǎlǜ 醫門法律 of 1658, and 徐彬 Xú Bīn’s Jīnguì yàolüè lùnzhù of 1671).
Composition window 1742–1749. For the parent compendium see KR3e0090 / KR3eu016.
Translations and research
- Wiseman, Nigel, and Sabine Wilms, tr. 2013. Jīn guì yào lüè — Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Cabinet. Taos, NM: Paradigm. — the standard English translation of the Jīn-guì.
- Yáng Shǒu-zhōng 楊守忠 (tr.). 1992. Jīn guì yào lüè: A New Translation. Boulder, CO: Blue Poppy. — alternative English translation.
- Mitchell, Wiseman, and Féng Yè. 1999. Shāng Hán Lùn. Brookline, MA: Paradigm.