Imperial Canon of Medicine - Complete Three Volumes

Author: Qing Wu Qian
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Publishing Date: 2005-11-01
Features: Medicine is primarily a clinical discipline, where life and death are at stake, and thus must be handled with utmost caution. Since Zhang Ji's Treatise on Cold Damage and Miscellaneous Diseases in the Eastern Han Dynasty, medicine has flourished. By the Qing Dynasty, there were countless medical works, with various schools and doctrines, good and bad intermingled. Practitioners often held onto their own views, often deviating from the great principles of the sages, practicing freely, discarding methods for formulas, harming themselves and others. To provide a clear framework and standardized guidelines for practitioners, the Imperial Medical College under the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, led by Wu Qian and others, was commissioned to compile this comprehensive clinical medical collection. The aim was to clarify the origins of medical practices and establish a definitive standard. At that time, all medical books were gathered in the Imperial Medical College, where Wu Qian, Liu Yude, and others [classified them, deleted the redundant and obscure, extracted the essence, revealed the hidden depths, and supplemented the incomplete parts], ultimately completing two editions. One was a concise and accessible version for beginners, while this book is the comprehensive and extensive one. Its content ranges from Zhang Ji's Treatise on Cold Damage to the Essentials of Orthopedics, covering all departments and specialties. Because it highlights the profound applications of ancient wisdom and opens the correct path for medical beginners, it was beneficial to the time and set an example for later generations, hence it is specifically intended for experienced practitioners to reference and study.