程應旄Chéng Yīngmáo:introduction about his biography and legends,main books and academic thoughts.
✵程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo):a herbalist in the early period of the Qing dynasty, his life was unknown in details, ever lived during about the middle to the late period of the 17th century. He is one of the important commentators of the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), author of the book 《傷寒論後條辨》(Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian, or the post entries' identification of Shang Han Lun).
程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo).
Brief Introduction
漢語名(Chinese Name):
程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo)
Alias:
郊倩(Jiāo Qiàn)
Popular name:
程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo)
English Name:
Cheng Yingmao, Yingmao Cheng(Given/Family).
Hometown:
Xin An
Dates:
Unknown, about middle to late of 17th century.
Main works:
《傷寒論後條辨》(Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian),《傷寒論贅余》(Shang Han Lun Zhui Yu),《醫徑句測》(Yi Jing Ju Ce).
Representative works:
《傷寒論後條辨》(Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian),《傷寒論贅余》(Shang Han Lun Zhui Yu),《醫徑句測》(Yi Jing Ju Ce).
Biography and legends:
程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo), his alias is 郊倩(Jiāo Qiàn), his years of birth and passing away is unknown, a native of Xin'an, Anhui, a herbalist in the early period of the Qing dynasty, his life was unknown in detail, ever lived during about the middle to the late period of the 17th century. He is one of the important commentators of the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases).
Main books and academic thoughts:
Cheng Yingmao praised Zhongjing's theory, studied the Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases) in fine detail during his life, and proposed that the four studies of "exterior interior, Zang and Fu-viscera" should be used to read the book. The key to diagnosis is in the pulse. He drew on the strong points of 喻昌(Yu Chang) and 方有執(Fang Youzhi) from their compilation of the entries of the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), followed by categorizing and organizing, elaborated with his views, and compiled the book Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian, the book is also known as Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian Zhi Jie, 15 volumes, the book was finished in the year 1670 AD, the original text of Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), Fang Youzhi's works Shang Han Lun Tiao Bian (the entries' identification of Shang Han Lun), and Yu Chang's works Shang Lun Pian were attached at the end, which is very convenient for reference. Until the year 1672 AD, he wrote and finished another book named Shang Han Lun Zhui Yu, in 1 volume, to supplement the unfinished discussions of the previous book. In addition, there is another book by him, named Yi Jing Ju Ce (the Medical Path by Sentence Test). His disciple 玉钰(Yù Yù) inherited his medical skills and studies.
The book Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian (the post-entries' identification of Shang Han Lun), is a book about the study of Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), another name of the book is Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian Zhi Jie (the direct explain on the post-entries' identification of Shang Han Lun), 15 volumes, it was compiled by Chéng Yīngmáo and was finished in the year 1670 AD. The book is divided into six sets: ritual, music, shooting, imperial, book, and counting. Based on the contents of Fang Youzhi's works Shang Han Lun Tiao Bian(the entries' identification of Shang Han Lun), according to his understanding of Zhongjing's original text, Cheng stated in the preface that "differentiate what it is, and listed entries by orders", and attached Zhongjing's original text and Fang Youzhi's works Shang Han Lun Tiao Bian(the entries' identification of Shang Han Lun), and Yu Chang's works Shang Lun Pian, for readers to refer to and review. The annotations of the whole book have certain elaborations based on previous herbalists. The theories of Fang Youzhi and Yu Chang are praised academically, the author thinks there are mistakes in the edition and the order of arrangement by Wang Shuhe. However, the contents of Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases) by Wang Shuhe were basically preserved, only adding five discussions at the beginning part. The author thinks that the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases) established principles for hundreds of diseases. He pointed out and stated that: "Zhongjing did not intend to teach people to treat Shang Han(the cold-induced disease) according to his method, but to teach people to identify Shang Han according to his method; not only teach people to identify(diseases) from Shang Han alone, but to teach people to identify(diseases) combined with miscellaneous diseases." The annotations carry on better, but not essential enough. As later herbalist 汪琥(Wang Hu) pointed out in his book Shang Han Lun Bian Zheng Guang Zhu: "Too much claver, quotes from hundreds of schools of classics and histories and even from jokes and songs, everything...".
The book Yi Jing Ju Ce (the Medical Path by Sentence Test) is a traditional Chinese medicine work on diagnosis and treatment by Chéng Yīngmáo of the Qing dynasty. It was compiled and finished until the Kangxi 9th year(the year 1670 AD), it gave an introduction about the pulse diagram and the prescriptions in the diagram of the book Song Ya Yi Jing (the Pine Cliff Medical Path).
References:
1.程應旄Chéng Yīngmáo:introduction about his biography and legends,main books and academic thoughts.
✵程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo):a herbalist in the early period of the Qing dynasty, his life was unknown in details, ever lived during about the middle to the late period of the 17th century. He is one of the important commentators of the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), author of the book 《傷寒論後條辨》(Shang Han Lun Hou Tiao Bian, or the post entries' identification of Shang Han Lun).
程應旄(Chéng Yīngmáo), his alias is 郊倩(Jiāo Qiàn), his years of birth and passing away is unknown, a native of Xin'an, Anhui, a herbalist in the early period of the Qing dynasty, his life was unknown in detail, ever lived during about the middle to the late period of the 17th century. He is one of the important commentators of the book Shang Han Lun(the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases).
