Treatise on Cold Damage: Collected Explanations

Author: Nie Huimin Wang Qingguo Gao Fei
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book adopts all the content of the Treatise on Cold Damage except for the chapters titled "What Can Be Revived and What Cannot Be," including the "Introduction to Cold Damage," "Distinguishing Pulse Methods," "Exemplary Pulse Methods," "Distinguishing Spasms, Dampness, and Heat Exhaustion," "Distinguishing Solar Disease," "Distinguishing Yangming Disease," "Distinguishing Shaoyang Disease," "Distinguishing Taiyin Disease," "Distinguishing Shaoyin Disease," "Distinguishing Cholera," "Distinguishing Yin-Yang Exchange and Post-Recovery Exhaustion," and others. The book cites 65 scholars from the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and references 66 works. Cheng Wujie was the first full annotator of the Treatise on Cold Damage, and his annotations are characterized by interpreting the text through the lens of the classics, which is quite distinctive. To maintain the completeness of his annotations, this book includes all relevant content from Annotated Treatise on Cold Damage.