Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical Text: With an appendix: The Doctrine of the Five Periods and Six Qi in the Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen

Contents

contents prefatory remarks / ix i. bibliographic history of the su wen 1. Some Scholarly Views on the Origin of the Su wen / 1 2. References to Huang Di nei jing and Su wen in Early Bibliographic Sources / 3 ii. the meaning of the title huang di nei jing su wen 1. Huang Di / 8 2. Nei / 14 3. Jing / 16 4. Su wen / 18 iii. early su wen texts and commentaries before the eleventh century 1. Huangfu Mi and the Jia yi jing / 22 2. Quan Yuanqi and the Su wen xun jie / 24 3. Yang Shangshan and the Huang Di nei jing tai su / 26 3.1. History and Reconstruction of a Tai su Text in Japan / 26 3.2. The Issue of the Chinese Master Copies of the Tai su / 27 3.3. Yang Shangshan’s Commentaries / 33 4. Wang Bing’s Su wen Edition of a.d. 762 / 39 4.1. Wang Bing, His Intentions and His Preface / 39 4.2. Structural Characteristics of the Wang Bing Edition / 44 4.3. Discourses 66 through 74 in Today’s Su wen / 46 4.4. The Influence of Wang Bing’s Worldview on His Su wen Edition / 48 4.5. Scope and Structure of Wang Bing’s Commentaries / 51 iv. origin and tradition of the textus receptus of the su wen 1. The Imperial Editorial Office of 1057 / 59 2. The Scope of the Revision by Gao Baoheng et al. / 62 3. The Major Commentated Su wen Versions Subsequent to Gao Baoheng et al. / 66 3.1. Ma Shi’s Huang Di nei jing su wen zhu zheng fa wei / 66 3.2. Wu Kun’s Huang Di nei jing su wen zhu / 66 3.3. Zhang Jiebin’s Lei jing / 68 3.4. Zhang Zhicong’s Huang Di nei jing su wen ji zhu / 69 3.5. Gao Shishi’s Huang Di su wen zhi jie / 70 3.6. Zhang Qi’s Su wen shi yi / 71 3.7. Hu Shu’s Huang Di nei jing su wen jiao yi / 72 3.8. Yu Yue’s Nei jing bian yan / 73 4. Two Japanese Commentated Su wen Versions of the Edo Period / 74 4.1. Tamba Genkan’s Su wen shi / 74 4.2. Tamba Genken’s Su wen shao shi / 75 v. a survey of the contents of the su wen 1. The Literary Setting / 76 2. The Yin-Yang Doctrine / 83 2.1. The Discovery of Dualism / 83 2.2. The Fourfold Subcategorization / 89 2.3. The Sixfold Subcategorization / 92 2.4. An Eightfold or Tenfold Subcategorization? / 94 2.5. Yin-Yang Physiology, Pathology, and Diagnosis / 96 3. The Five-Agents Doctrine / 99 3.1. General Remarks / 99 3.2. Early References to Pentic Categorizations / 100 3.3. Early Notions of Correspondences among Phenomena / 102 3.4. Early Patterns of Correspondences / 105 3.5. The Status Quo of the Five-Agents Doctrine in the Su wen / 106 3.6. The Significance of the Five-Agents Doctrine in the Su wen / 110 4. The Body and Its Organs / 124 4.1. Su wen Morphology / 124 4.2. Chest and Abdomen / 124 4.3. The Head / 126 4.4. The Extremities / 127 4.5. General Structural Elements and Mobile Agents / 127 4.6. Toward a Hierarchy of Human Organs / 129 4.7. Depots, Palaces, Containers, and Officers / 136 4.8. Links between Organs and Orifices / 141 4.9. The Organism as a System of Morphological Entities and Their Functions / 143 5. Blood and Qi / 144 5.1. Blood / 146 5.2. Qi / 149 5.3. Camp Qi and Protective Qi / 163 6. The Vessels / 167 6.1. Vessel Theory in the Mawangdui Manuscripts / 167 6.2. Vessel Morphology in the Su wen / 169 6.3. Vessel Pathology / 171 6.4. The Contents of the Vessels / 174 6.5. Vessel Flow / 175 7. Pathogenic Agents / 180 7.1. From Bugs and Demons to Natural Environmental Factors / 180 7.2. Wind Etiology and Pathology / 183 7.3. Wind Etiology and Leprosy / 189 7.4. Wind Etiology and Malaria / 191 7.5. Dampness, Cold, Heat, and Dryness / 194 8. Diseases / 198 8.1. Lifestyle and Prevention / 198 8.2. Ontological and Functional Views / 200 8.3. Disease Terminology / 201 8.4. Malaria / 206 8.5. Cough / 209 8.6. Lower Back Pain / 211 8.7. Limpness / 212 8.8. Block / 217 8.9. Recession...