Study On The Academic Thought Of Chen Botan's Duguo Shanghan Lun And Collating

Chen Botan is an outstanding doctor in the Lingnan medical history. He is the head of the four most famous Lingnan doctors of exogenous febrile diseases (Shanghan) at the end of Qing Dynasty and the beginning of Repubic of China. "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)", his representative work, is one of a few extant, Lingnan medical books of the biggest length, which were published before Repubic of China. It has 18 volumes and more than 400,000 words altogether. The whole book based on the theory of Yin-yang and qi transformation and Clarified the theory of branch and root and gastrosplenic qi, which was different from the books of Yu Jiayan, Huang Yuanyu and Chen Xiuyuan, so it started a separate school of thought, had large influence in Lingnan area at that time and had very high academic value. But there are only a few editions of this book and the extant ones are seldom, and there is no publication of the collated copy of it. Many Lingnan doctors in present age only have heard the book title, but have not seen its article, and also only a little few doctors of traditional Chinese medicine in the whole nation know it. The quotation and introduction of some books even make the mistakes of the book title, edition, publication time, etc, and not to say to make a thorough and systematic arrangement of it. The study of "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)" written by Chen Botan is a weak link in the present study of Zhongjing's doctrine. In view of this, the article makes an overall literature arrangement and academic discussion, in order to write a collated and annotated textbook loyal to the original edition, which can provide literature materials and academic reference for clinic and research.First, organize the origin and development of the edition of "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)". Based on this, collate the whole book. According to literature research, there are only two editions of "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)". The block-printed edition published by Chen Yangfu's hall at Guangdong Xinhui open sea in 19 years of Republic of China is the earliest and the best among extant ones. The edition of Chen Yangfu's hall had been printed at least more than three times before it was destroyed by Japanese invaders. There are four chests of thread-bound block-printed books of "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)" in the library of Guangzhou university of Chinese medicine, two of which may be the first printed ones and are saved well. So these two books are used as main collated ones. The block-printed edition of Chen Yangfu's hall was photocopied by People's Medical Publishing House in 1954. Though it was not based on the earliest printed book, it still retained the original condition of the block-printed edition of Chen Yangfu's hall. It satisfies the three conditions of base book, which is "early, essence, sufficiency", so it is used as the base book for collating. According to "General rule of collating ancient books of traditional Chinese medicine", the arrangement of this book includes collating, punctuation and annotation. Take maintaining the original book and original condition as the principle and does not delete or revise it, in order to manifest its value as the historical material.Next, discuss the characteristic of the order of arrangement and the academic contribution of"Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)". It is thought that the most remarkable style characteristic of this book was "explain the channels by channels". Its method of volume separation was also unconventional. Establish specially "the access" in order to run through the important theories and concepts of syndrome and treatment of "Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Shanghan Lun)", which was profoundly meaningful. There were many opinions in the chapter of "reading", for example, proposed that "Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Shanghan Lun)" is not" cold-wound theory"; Opposed the theory of"three principles stand like a tripod" and emphasized that wind and cold was a unit and was unified to "cold"; proposed to understand the compendium of"Taiyang Disease" from the entire process of transmission and change. Chen also proposed some unique opinions on the theory of the order of arrangement of"Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Shanghan Lun)", febrile disease, Radio Bupleuri syndrome, combined disease and complicated disease, failure to relieve after transmission from one channel to another, transmission from one channel to another, yin-yang and branch and root and qi transformation by correcting the reading mistakes of Yu Jiayan, Huang Yuanyu and Chen Xiuyuan. The most remarkable characteristic of Chen's academic theory on exogenous febrile diseases (Shanghan) is that emphasize on the theory of yin-yang. It is also special that his understanding of the essence of three yin and three yang and his exposition of the regulation of six channels' qi transformation by the theory of branch and root and gastrosplenic qi. It is unique that his explanation and use of classical prescriptions. It can be said that this book is an "explain the channels by channels" edition of "Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Shanghan Lun)", which does not select materials from previous annotations, revolve the theory of yin-yang, clarify the theory of branch and root and gastrosplenic qi, and has the conception of entirety and dialectical thought.A collated copy of "Review of Treatise on Exogenous Febrile Diseases (Duguo Shanghan Lun)" (selection) is attached at the end of the article. Other appendixes are medical records of Chen Botan and Cheng Zupei, who is Chen Botan's student. Each are 11 pieces, in order to help readers to know Chen Daji's characteristic of using classic prescription and his influence to students.