Jīnguì qǐyuè (Fùkē) 金匱啟鑰（婦科）
Opening the Lock of the Golden Cabinet — Women’s Medicine by 黃朝坊 (撰)
About the work
The Fùkē 婦科 (Women’s Medicine) section of the Jīnguì qǐyuè 金匱啟鑰 (“Opening the Lock of the Golden Cabinet”) is the women’s-medicine volume of the late-Qīng comprehensive medical compendium by 黃朝坊 Huáng Cháofāng. Huáng is a late-Qīng physician of the jīngfāngpài 經方派 (classical-formula school) lineage; his women’s-medicine work is also catalogued in the present knowledgebase as KR3ei038. The compendium title — Jīnguì qǐyuè / “Opening the Lock of the Golden Cabinet” — explicitly positions the work as a guide to the chronic-disease and miscellaneous-disease tradition of Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Jīnguì yàolüè 金匱要略, against the dominant late-Qīng shífāngpài 時方派 (contemporary-formula school) approach.
Abstract
The women’s-medicine volume belongs to the late-Qīng warming-tonifying (wēnbǔ) tendency in gynecology and is polemically opposed to routine prescription of biǎo-resolving formulae (Wǔjī sǎn 五積散, Jiǔwèi qiānghuó tāng 九味羌活湯) for cold-syndrome women’s-medicine conditions. The work emphasises the warming-tonifying tradition of 薛己 Xuē Jǐ and 張介賓 Zhāng Jièbīn (Jǐngyuè) and reads the Jīnguì yàoluè women’s-medicine chapters as the foundational scriptural authority. Composition window is securely late Qīng (mid-19th to late-19th century); a more precise window is not available without the work’s preface.
For Huáng Cháofāng’s biographical setting see his person note. The work has not received substantial Western-language scholarship.
Translations and research
No substantial Western-language scholarship located.
- Furth, Charlotte. 1999. A Flourishing Yin. Berkeley: University of California Press — frames the late-imperial Chinese women’s-medicine tradition.