Shang Han Lun
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Shang Han Lun ((traditional Chinese: 傷寒論; pinyin: Shāng Hán Lùn), or Shang Han Za Bin Lun, is the treatasie on Cold Disease Damage by Zhang Zhongjing published in 220 A.D. by the Hippocrates of Traditional Chinese medicine. It is the oldest complete clinical textbook in world medical history, and one of the four most important canonical medical classics which students must study in Chinese medical education.
Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions. The discussion is based on the Six Divisions: [1] The Six Divisions of the Shang Han Lun are:
TAl YANG (greater yang): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy: sweating
YANG MING (yang brightness): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminating
SHAO YANG (lesser yang): half outside, half inside half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizing
TAl YIN (greater yin): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with supplementing.
SHAO YIN (lesser yin): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy: warming with supplementing
JUE YIN (absolute yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with supplementing [1]
[edit] See also
- Compendium of Materia Medica
- Huang Di
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Chinese herbology
- Chinese patent medicine
- Medicine
[edit] References
- ^ Shang Han Lun (On Cold Damage), Translation & Commentaries by Zhongjing Zhang, Feng Ye, Nigel Wiseman, Craig Mitchell, Ye Feng. Blue Poppy Press 2000
