Experience Selection Secret

Author: Hu Zengbin (Qing Dynasty)
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Publishing Date: 2004-05-01
Features: "Selected Secrets of Experience" (), compiled by Hu Zengbin of the Qing Dynasty. First published in the 10th year of the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. This book is a collection of effective formulas and methods for treating diseases, compiled by the editor after extensively collecting and verifying ancient and modern experiences, ensuring that the prescriptions match the diseases. It is organized into categories, simplifying the complex and compiling the essential.
Volume 1 discusses head, five senses, and miscellaneous internal and external medicine prescriptions for disease treatment.
Volumes 2 and 3 discuss the treatment of sores, carbuncles, boils, and skin diseases.
Volume 4 focuses on the principles and methods of treating gynecological, obstetric, and postpartum diseases.
Volume 5 details the differentiation, rescue, and taboos for smallpox and measles in children.
Volume 6 lists rescue methods for sudden deaths, strangulation deaths, epidemics, cholera, and injuries caused by insects and animals.
The simplified formulas and rescue methods in the book may include detailed explanations of the causes of diseases, clarifications of the meanings of formulas, or classification of formulas. It is meticulous in research and thorough in methods, with the characteristics of finding formulas based on symptoms, being simple and effective. It is a practical and concise clinical Chinese medicine textbook.
The collation of this book is based on the first edition of the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. Since this book was not reprinted in later generations, this collation adopts the general principle of collation, only correcting obvious errors such as missing text, incorrect characters, colloquial characters, and alternative names of medicinal herbs. This is done by cross-comparing or referring to relevant materials, with annotations provided. For homophones, variant characters, or colloquial forms of drug names, such as "chóng tuì, chán tuì" (insect repellent, cicada molting); "lián qiáo, lián qiào" (scutellaria, scutellaria); "shí gāo, shí gāo" (alabaster, gypsum); "yī gōng, yī jīn" (one measure, one jin), they are generally directly corrected without additional annotations.
The original book was in traditional vertical printing, so the character "" after the formulas is now changed to "". For the small characters in the original book, except for the approximate dosages of medicinal herbs, parentheses are added for distinction. The original book's table of contents is unclear, so a new table of contents is compiled based on the main text for the convenience of readers.