Gynecological Jade Ruler

Author: (Qing) Shen Jinalao, compiled by Dang Lanyu, annotated and edited by Wang Xiaotian
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Publishing Date: 2005-06-01
Features: To promote the traditional Chinese medicine of our country and meet the needs of a broad range of TCM practitioners and enthusiasts, a group of TCM experts was organized to rigorously select and comprehensively compile multiple versions, annotating and editing the "Classics of Medical Classics Series." The principles of annotation and editing are as follows:
1. Modern punctuation methods are adopted to re-segment the original text.
2. Obvious typographical errors or misspellings in the base text are corrected. Variant characters, archaic characters, homophones, and colloquial variants are simplified while preserving the original book's integrity.
3. Prescriptions in the original text are re-formatted according to modern conventions: [Indications], [Formula], [Usage], [Explanation]. The directional terms "left, right" in the original text are uniformly replaced with "upper, lower."
4. To maintain the original appearance of the base text, no changes are made to the dosage of medicinal ingredients. For herbs with heavy toxic dosages, refer to modern dosages. Certain banned animal-derived ingredients such as rhino horn, tiger bone, and musk should be replaced with modern alternatives.
5. Where discrepancies exist between various base texts and annotated editions, as multiple base texts were referenced, the annotated edition does not provide detailed explanations.