五十二病方

Wǔshí’èr bìngfāng — “Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments”.

Anonymous early-Hàn medical manuscript recovered from Mǎwángduī 馬王堆 tomb 3 (sealed 168 BCE), Chángshā 長沙, in 1973. The longest of the Mǎwángduī medical silk manuscripts (約 9 600 graphs across more than 280 prescriptions). The corpus is organised by 52 disease categories and combines pharmaceutical, dietetic, surgical, and ritual remedies — including incantational and talismanic procedures that constitute the earliest extensive direct attestation of zhùyóu-type therapy in the Chinese textual record. Standard study and translation: Donald Harper, Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts (Kegan Paul, 1998).