Wang Bing Medical Encyclopedia

Author: Zhang Dengben, Sun Lijun
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: The Complete Medical Works of Wang Bing compiles the major medical treatises compiled by Wang Bing of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Bing was a renowned medical expert in the mid-Tang Dynasty, with his origins and life unrecorded. He was known as Qiyuanzi and also bore the title of Watu. He primarily lived during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of the Tang Dynasty and held the position of Taipu Ling. In the first year of the Baoying era, after 12 years of arduous effort, he completed the annotation of the Suwen section of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, which was compiled into 24 volumes. During this time, he also "compiled Xuanzhu to elaborate on his theories." Additionally, the 28-volume Tianyuan Yuce and the Yuanhe Jiyong Jing have survived to this day. His book Zhaozhao Yinzhi has long been lost. This book systematically organizes and compiles Wang Bing's annotations and commentaries on the Suwen section of the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon. Since Wang Bing was a transmitter of the five elements and qi theory, in-depth research on his medical academic thoughts was conducted on the basis of systematically organizing and compiling his works. At the end of the book, there is a bibliography of modern research papers on Wang Bing. This book is the first to systematically organize Wang Bing's relevant works, primarily using annotation with a combination of textual criticism. It compiles and organizes four of the five surviving works of Wang Bing, using simplified characters and horizontal layout. It is suitable for various practitioners and researchers of traditional Chinese medicine and integrated Chinese and Western medicine.