Shānghán yòngyào yánjiū 傷寒用藥研究
A Study of Shāng-hán Prescription-Drug Use by 川越正淑 (撰)
About the work
The Shānghán yòngyào yánjiū 傷寒用藥研究 (Japanese Shōkan yōyaku kenkyū), 2 juàn, dated Kansei 9 = 1797 by the postface, is a short koihō / kohō-ha 古方派 study by the late-Edo southern-Japanese physician 川越正淑 Kawagoe Masayoshi 川越正淑. The same work is independently catalogued as KR3ef069 in the present knowledgebase.
Abstract
The work systematises the prescription-drug logic of Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s Shānghán lùn — that is, the rationale for individual ingredient-choice within the canonical formulae — on the basis of pulse-and-syndrome evidence. The methodology is characteristic of the kohō-ha (Ancient-Formula School): instead of taking the prescriptions as black-box clinical instruments, the work analyses each ingredient’s contribution to each formula in terms of the demonstrable symptom-correlation visible in the Shānghán / Jīnguì texts themselves. Kawagoe’s companion work Shānghán màizhèng shì 傷寒脈證式 (KR3ef073) develops the pulse-and-syndrome diagnostic side of the same programme.
Composition is securely 1797 by the dated postface. For Kawagoe’s biographical context — fl. late 18th / early 19th century in southern Japan (南越) — see his person note. The work has not received substantial Western-language scholarship.
Translations and research
No substantial Western-language scholarship located.
- Trambaiolo, Daniel. 2013. “Native and Foreign in Tokugawa Medicine.” Journal of Japanese Studies 39 (2): 299–324 — for the kohō-ha context.