"Sun Zhen Ren's Qian Jin Fang": Including "The True Qian Jin Fang"

Author: Sun Simiao
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: "The Golden Chamber of Sun Zhenren" is an ancient manuscript of "The Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Chamber" discovered in the late Qing Dynasty. The entire book only survives in twenty volumes (i.e., Volume 1 to Volume 5, Volume 11 to Volume 15, and Volume 21 to Volume 30). The book introduces general principles of medicine, prescriptions for women, prescriptions for infants and young children, and the treatment of internal organ diseases (liver, gallbladder, heart, small intestine, spleen), as well as the treatment of diabetes, urinary retention, and sores, carbuncles, and fistulas. Additionally, it elaborates on various emergency methods, health-preserving exercises, dietary therapy, and acupuncture.