Mǎ Zōngyuán 馬宗元 (zì Qīngrú 清儒, 清). Late-Qīng physician of uncertain native place; lifedates not preserved. Author of Wēnbìng biànzhèng 溫病辨症 (KR3eg019). Described in the surviving prefaces as “deeply learned and especially accomplished in medicine, on warm-disease following Zhāng Jī at a distance and Yè Tiānshì at close range, drawing on his reading and clinical experience”.
Doctrinally an heir of 葉桂 Yè Tiānshì, with the explicit programmatic position of taking the wēnbìng school’s distinction of fúxié 伏邪 (latent pathogen) from shíxié 時邪 (seasonal pathogen) to a high level of analytical precision — “splitting hairs and slicing fine grains” in the words of one preface. Stylistically the Wēnbìng biànzhèng sets out broad doctrinal positions (dàyì 大意) followed by amplified commentary (fāmíng zhī yǔ 發明之語), in the conscious idiom of a teaching text for beginners.
No CBDB record. Source: Wēnbìng biànzhèng prefaces.