Emotional therapy and talking cures in late imperial China

Psychiatry and Chinese History

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 18-54

  Chen, Hsiu fen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781315654379     Document Type: Chapter

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3. Xu Yongcheng and Liu Chun, 'Yuji weiyi ' [Esoteric Meanings of the Jade Secrets], Liu chun yixue quanshu [Th e Complete Medical Works of Liu Chun] (Beijing: Zhongguo zhongyiyao chubanshe, 1999), fascicle 16, p. 245; Xu Chunfu ??????, Gujin yitong daquan [Collection of Medical Traditions in the Past and Present] (1556; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1991), fascicle 41, p. 1187; Zhang Zhicong ??????, Huangdi neijing suwen jizhu [Th e Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor: Annotation on Basic Questions] (1670; Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2002), fascicle 2A, ch. 5, p. 42.
4. Xu Chunfu, Gujin yitong daquan [Collection of Medical Traditions in the Past and Present] (1556; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1991), fascicle 41, p. 1187; Zhang Zhicong ??????, Huangdi neijing suwen jizhu [Th e Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor: Annotation on Basic Questions] (1670; Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2002), fascicle 2A, ch. 5, p. 42.
5. Zhang Zhicong, Huangdi neijing suwen jizhu [Th e Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor: Annotation on Basic Questions] (1670; Hangzhou: Zhejiang guji chubanshe, 2002), fascicle 2A, ch. 5, p. 42.
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8. I capitalize the names of these visceral organs since they are not fully identical with the anatomical entities of modern bio-medicine. Th ese organs in Chinese medicine have more functional and complicated interrelationship, according to the theory of systematic correspondence. N. Sivin, Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China (Ann Arbor, MI: Th e University of Michigan, 1997), pp. 124-33.
9. Wang Bing , Huangdi neijing suwen [Th e Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor: Basic Questions] (762; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1996), fascicle 2, ch. 5, pp. 37-42. Similar but slightly diff erent descriptions of these paragraphs can be found in ibid., fascicle 6, ch. 19, pp. 124-5; fascicle 19, ch. 67, pp. 374-85.
10. Zhang Zhicong, Th e Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor: Annotation on Basic Questions, fascicle 2a, ch. 5, pp. 43-4.
11. Shigehisa Kuriyama, Th e Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine (New York: Zone Book, 1999), p. 103.
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14. Yan Yonghe, Jisheng fang[Recipes for Aiding Life] (1253; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1956), vol. 2, fascicle 5-6, pp. 153-206.
15. See, for example, Fei Boxiung, Yi chun sheng yi [Th e Supplementary Meanings of Medical Essence], in Cao Bingzhang (ed.), Zhongguo yixue dacheng xuji [Th e Great Collection of Chinese Medical Works: Supplementary Volumes] (Shanghai: Shanghai kexue jishu chubanshe, 2000), vol. 29, fascicle 2, pp. 195-6.
16. Wu Kun, Research on Medical Formulas, fascicle 3, ch. 27, pp. 201-4.
17. Zhang Jiebin, Lei jing [Th e Classifi ed Canon], 1624 edn, National Library, Taipei, fascicle 31, pp. 31a-37a.
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21. Zhang Congzheng, Th e Scholar Serving His Kin , fascicle 3, pp. 106, 109-10.
22. See, for example, Wang Ji and Chen Jue (eds), 'Shishan yian' [Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories], Wang Shishan yixue quanshu [Th e Complete Medical Works of Wang Ji] (Beijing: Zhongguo zhongyiyao chubanshe, 1999), fascicle 2, pp. 97-8; Yang Jizhou ??????, Zhenjiu dacheng [Th e Great Achievements of Acupuncture and Moxibustion] (1601; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1997), fascicle 9, pp. 373-4.
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29. Ibid. Also see: Sun Yikui , 'Chi sui xuan zhu [Red Water and Black Pearl], in Sun Yikui yixue quanshu [Th e Complete Medical Works of Sun Yikui] (Beijing: Zhongguo zhongyiyao chubanshe, 1999), fascicle 14, p. 330.
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33. Zhang Congzheng, Th e Scholar Serving His Kin , fascicle 3, p. 111. Also see: Wang Ji, Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories, fascicle 2, p. 97.
34. Also see: Wang Ji, Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories, fascicle 2, p. 97.
35. Zhang Congzheng, Th e Scholar Serving His Kin , fascicle 3, p. 111.
36. Zhu Zhenheng , 'Mai yin zheng zhi [Pulses, Causes, Symptoms and Th erapy], in Danxi yiji [Medical Collection of Zhu Danxi] (Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 1993/5), fascicle 2, pp. 839-40.
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38. Chen Menglei et al. (eds), Past and Present Synthesis of Books and Illustrations, fascicle 295, p. 260.
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41. Yu Zhen(ed.), Gujin yian an[Comments on Medical Cases, Past and Present] (1778; Beijing: Renmin weisheng chubanshe, 2010), fascicle 5, p. 168.
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45. see Wu Kun, Research on Medical Formulas, p. 202.
46. Wang Ji, Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories, fascicle 2, p. 98. Wu Kun's Research on Medical Formulas notes that this physician was Dai Nianren ??????; see p. 203.
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48. Wang Ji, Stone Mountain Medical Case Histories, fascicle 2, p.98. According to Chen Jue, the compiler of Stone Mountain, the physician in this medical case should be Wang Ji. But the later medical works mentioned that the physician had actually been Han Shiliang.
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