Huáng Yuányù 黃元御 (1705–1758), zì Yuányù 元御 (also styled 坤戴 Kūndài), hào Yùqiū 玉楸 (variants 玉路 / 玉璐 — the form found in the Kanripo catalog meta — and 玉揪 are graphical alternates referring to a qiū 楸 tree in his courtyard; the hào 研農 is also given), was the dominant Shāndōng physician of the mid-Qīng and the founder of the so-called 四聖 (“Four Sages”) school of clinical doctrine, taking the Sùwèn, Língshū, Nán jīng, and Zhāng Zhòngjǐng’s ShānghánJīnguì corpus as four authoritative bodies of doctrine, each to be re-exposed in his “xuán jiě” 懸解 series. Native of Chāngyì 昌邑 in Láizhōu prefecture. A precocious xiùcái, he was blinded in his left eye by a botched cataract operation around 1737 and abandoned the examination track for medicine; he gained an imperial summons to the Qiánlóng court (where he is conventionally said to have treated the emperor) and is the only mid-Qīng physician other than Wú Qiān whose practice received imperial recognition. His five major commentary works:
- Sùwèn xuán jiě 素問懸解, 13 juan, 1753 (KR3ea013).
- Língshū xuán jiě 靈樞懸解, 9 juan (KR3ea027).
- Nánjīng xuán jiě 難經懸解, 2 juan (KR3ea063).
- Shānghán xuán jiě 傷寒懸解 and Jīnguì xuán jiě 金匱懸解.
Doctrinal originals: Sìshèng xīn yuán 四聖心源 (1753, his systematic medical philosophy), Sùlíng wéi yùn 素靈微蘊 (KR3ea053), Sìshèng xuán shū 四聖懸樞 (KR3ea052), Cháng shā yào jiě 長沙藥解 (1753), Yùqiū yào jiě 玉楸藥解. He died in 1758, aged 53. His school, neglected nationally before the Republican era, has since the 1980s been recognized as a major early-modern Chinese-medicine tradition.