Wú Kūn 吳崐 (1551 – c. 1620; sometimes written 吳昆 in print, identical name), zì Shānfǔ 山甫, hào Hèguāng 鶴皋, signing many works as 參黃生 Cānhuángshēng (“Student of the Yellow Emperor”), was a late-Míng physician of Shèxiàn 歙縣 (Huīzhōu, modern Ānhuī) and a central figure of the Xīn’ān 新安 medical school alongside 汪機 Wāng Jī (his elder contemporary) and Sūn Yīkuí 孫一奎. Trained originally for the jǔrén examinations, Wú failed to pass and turned to medicine; he studied under several Xīn’ān masters and travelled widely in Jiāngnán practising medicine and collecting prescriptions. His three principal works form the core curriculum of the Xīn’ān tradition:
- Yī fāng kǎo 醫方考, 6 juan, 1584 — critical examination of 700 prescriptions classified by therapeutic action.
- Mài yǔ 脈語, 2 juan, 1584 — on pulse diagnostics.
- Sùwèn Wú zhù 素問吳注, 24 juan, 1594 (KR3ea014).
His clinical orientation is broadly Dānxī-school (nourishing yīn) with emphasis on careful syndromal differentiation. His commentary on the Sùwèn anticipates Zhāng Jièbīn’s 張介賓 Lèijīng in its systematic cross-referencing of the Sùwèn and Língshū. He died around 1620 in his late sixties.