Chén Píngbó 陳平伯 (zì Zǔgōng 祖恭, mid-Qīng, fl. late Qiánlóng / Jiāqìng era ca. 1780–1820), physician of Sōngbīn 松濱 (variously located, possibly the Sōngjiāng 松江 / Sōngchuān 松濱 area). Author of the Wàigǎn wēnbìng piān 外感溫病篇 (KR3eg009), the principal Qīng monograph on the fēngwēn 風溫 (wind-warm) variety of externally-contracted warm disease.
Doctrinally aligned with the southern wēnbìng school of Yè Tiānshì and Xuē Shēngbái. Chén argued that Zhāng Jī’s Shānghán lùn provides no specific apparatus for externally-contracted warm-heat disease, and that physicians who treat warm disease with Shānghán methods cause harm. His doctrinal positions:
- Warm 溫 = warm/hot, the antithesis of cold; fēngwēn = wind-pathogen externally constraining, shīwēn = damp-pathogen internally penetrating.
- Treatment principle: “release the surface with cool-acrid, not hot-acrid; clear the interior by draining heat, not chasing heat” (發表宜辛涼不辛熱，清里宜泄熱不宜逐熱).
- The lung-stomach is the locus on which fēngwēn must act: “in the human body, the lung governs the surface (wèi); the stomach is the root of the surface; therefore fēngwēn externally attacks while the lung-stomach internally responds”.
- Therapeutic strategy for fēngwēn: “draining heat and harmonising the yīn are the fixed treatment principles for fēngwēn, since dryness damages yīn and heat damages fluids”.
Wáng Mèngyīng 王士雄, who included Chén’s Wàigǎn wēnbìng piān as juǎn 5 of his Wēnrè jīngwěi (KR3eg008), explicitly flagged the attribution as “hard to verify, but I follow the conventional ascription” — so the certainty of Chén’s authorship is itself part of the Qīng wēnbìng textual record.
No reliable lifedates preserved; not in CBDB. Source: Zhōng yī rén wù cí diǎn 中醫人物詞典 (Shanghai cishu, 1988).