Shang Han Lun
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The Shang Han Lun or Shang Han Za Bing Lun , known in English as the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders or the Treatise on Cold Injury, is a Chinese
medical treatise that was compiled by Zhang Zhongjing
sometime before the year 220, at the end of the Han dynasty
. It is the oldest complete clinical textbook in the world, and one of the four canonical works that students must study in traditional Chinese medical
education.
The Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions, organised into the Six Divisions :
Tai 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.
Tai 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.
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medical treatise that was compiled by Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing , formal name Zhang Ji, was a Han Dynasty physician and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han Dynasty...
sometime before the year 220, at the end of the Han dynasty
Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China, preceded by the Qin Dynasty and succeeded by the Three Kingdoms . It was founded by the rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gaozu of Han. It was briefly interrupted by the Xin Dynasty of the former regent Wang Mang...
. It is the oldest complete clinical textbook in the world, and one of the four canonical works that students must study in traditional Chinese medical
Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine refers to a broad range of medicine practices sharing common theoretical concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine, acupuncture, massage , exercise , and dietary therapy...
education.
The Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions, organised into the Six Divisions :
Tai 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.
Tai 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.
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