Máo Yǒuzhī:introduction about his biography and legends,main books and academic thoughts.
✵茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī):a herbalist and gynecologist ever lived during the Ming Dynasty, his family was professional in gynecology for generations since ancestors, he is the author of the book Mao Shi Nv Ke Mi Fang, a professional works on the identification and treatment of obstetrics syndromes.
茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī).
Brief Introduction
漢語名 (Chinese Name):
茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī)
Alias:
仙伯 (Xiān Bó)
Popular name:
茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī)
English Name:
Qi Bo, Uncle Qi
Hometown:
Jiading Anting
Dates:
Unknown,during Ming dynasty.
Main works:
《茅氏女科秘方》(Mao Shi Nv Ke Mi Fang).
Representative works:
《茅氏女科秘方》(Mao Shi Nv Ke Mi Fang).
Biography and legends:
茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī), native to Anting, Jiading, his family was professional in gynecology for generations since ancestors, his years and date of birth and passing away is unknown in detail, his life was not recorded in detail.
Main books and academic thoughts:
The book Mao Shi Nv Ke Mi Fang, is also known as Anting Mao Shi Shi Chuan Nv Ke, a gynecological work compiled by Máo Yǒuzhī, it was finished in the Hongzhi 2nd year of the Ming Dynasty (the year 1489 AD), but according to Mao Youzhi’s record, the book is a secret transcript passed down in Mao’s family by ancestors, this book was not engraved or published after it was compiled, it was copied in the clan as the ancestral secretary of the Mao family. This book focuses on the identification and treatment of obstetrics syndromes, discussing the etiology and pathogenesis of women’s pre-natal and post-natal, and cold-affection during pregnancy. It introduces 18 antenatal syndromes, 21 postpartum syndromes, the supplementary or modified Siwu Decoction before and after childbirth, the supplementary Bawu Decoction, and the 21 syndromes of cold-affection, a total of sixty syndromes of menstruation regulation, pregnancy, and postpartum, with the treatment and prescriptions, the syndrome differentiation is concise and simple, and prescriptions are consistent with syndromes. It not only contains the essential parts of gynecology and obstetrics in the past but also combined clinical experience from Mao's family, especially good in the application of various Liuhe Decoction, Siwu Decoction, etc., often with formulas or directions put into verse.
References:
1.Máo Yǒuzhī:introduction about his biography and legends,main books and academic thoughts.
✵茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī):a herbalist and gynecologist ever lived during the Ming Dynasty, his family was professional in gynecology for generations since ancestors, he is the author of the book Mao Shi Nv Ke Mi Fang, a professional works on the identification and treatment of obstetrics syndromes.
茅友芝 (Máo Yǒuzhī), native to Anting, Jiading, his family was professional in gynecology for generations since ancestors, his years and date of birth and passing away is unknown in detail, his life was not recorded in detail.
