Liú Chún 劉純 (zì Zōnghòu 宗厚, fl. early Míng), early-Míng physician of Xiánníng 咸寧 (modern Shǎnxī). Continuator and supplementer of 徐用誠 Xú Yòngchéng’s Yī xué zhézhōng 醫學折衷, which Liú expanded with 33 additional disease-categories and renamed to Yùjī wēiyì 玉機微義 (KR3e0068, 50 juan, 50 categories total). The expanded categories include cough, heat, fire, summer-heat, damp, dryness, cold, ulcers, qì, blood, internal damage, deficiency, accumulation, xiāokě (diabetic), shuǐqì (water-qì), jiǎoqì (leg-qì), various hernias, fǎnwèi (anti-stomach), distension-fullness, hóubì (throat-paralysis), línmēn (urinary-difficulty), eye, tooth, lower-back pain, abdominal pain, heart pain, bānzhěn (rashes), huángdǎn (jaundice), huòluàn (cholera), jué bì (collapse-paralysis), women, children. Liú Chún is also author of the Yī jīng xiǎoxué 醫經小學 (Medical Classics Primer). The Míng shǐ yìwén zhì attributes the Yùjī wēiyì to Liú alone — failing to credit Xú Yòngchéng’s foundational base text — an error corrected by the SKQS editors.
name: 劉純 pinyinName: Liú Chún alternateNames: [君錫, Jūnxī] dynasty: 宋 birthDate: deathDate: cbdbId: dilaAuthorityId: created: 2026-05-03 updated: 2026-05-03
Liú Chún 劉純 (zì Jūnxī 君錫, fl. mid-13th century, Southern Sòng) — distinct from the early-Míng physician of the same name above. Author of the postface (hòu xù 後序) to 陳元靚’s KR2j0001 Suìshí guǎngjì 歲時廣記. He there signs himself Wénlín láng, xīn xíngzài Tàipíng Huìmín Héjì jú jiānmén 文林郎新行在太平惠民和劑局監門 — Gentleman of the Forest of Letters (a low court rank), newly appointed supervisor of the imperial pharmacy (Tàipíng Huìmín Héjì jú) at the temporary capital (xíngzài, i.e. Línān 臨安 / Hangzhou). His postface dates the Suìshí guǎngjì securely to the Lǐzōng era. Not in CBDB.