[Examining Shang Han Zheng Jie using the method of philology].

Abstract

Shang Han Zheng Jie is a four-volume medical book, an annotation for Shang Han Lun by Dai Yaochi in the Qing Dynasty. It was first published in the tenth year of the Tongzhi Period in the Qing Dynasty (1871). It was found that the existing version is only the engraved one in the tenth year of the Tongzhi Period (1871). The book consisting of three full volumes with each volume separately located in the library of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the library of Shanghai University of Chinese Medicine, and the library of the Medical College of Shanghai Jiao Tong University respectively. The one with the author's stamp, collected by the Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, is believed to be the most valuable version. Beyond that, the other two fragment books have been collected by the Medical Branch of Wuhan University Library and the library of Tianjin Medical College respectively. Its author Dai Yaochi annotated Shang Han Lun by revising, deleting, splitting and merging the content to minimise negligence and playing new tricks. He believed that "typhoid fever is a process of identifying the six meridians. If the six meridians failed to be clarified, the clinical symptoms would not be treated reasonably" after editing the complicated and messy provisions of the original texts. Therefore, he recompiled the style of Shang Han Lun in his book Shang Han Zheng Jie, reorganised his book with the Six Meridians, and reinterpreted Shang Han Lun based on his own understanding and other annotations of previous authors.