Dai Yaochi: Biographical Introduction and Historical Accounts, Major Works and Academic Contributions
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✵Dai Yaochi: a Qing dynasty herbalist. His life and deeds are largely unknown; he lived approximately in the 19th century. He is the author of Shang Han Zheng Jie (The Correct Explanation of the Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases).
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Brief Introduction Chinese Name: 戴耀墀 (Dài Yàochí) Alias: Unknown. Popular Name: 戴耀墀 (Dài Yàochí) English Name: Dai Yaochi (family name first) or Yaochi Dai (given name first) Hometown: Qishan Mountain Dates: Unknown; approximately mid- to late 19th century Main works: 《傷寒正解》(Shang Han Zheng Jie, or The Correct Explanation of the Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases) Representative works: Shang Han Zheng Jie (The Correct Explanation of the Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases). Biographical Introduction and Historical Accounts
Dai Yaochi (Dài Yàochí), a Qing dynasty herbalist, lived approximately in the 19th century. Little is known about his life and deeds.
Major Works and Academic Contributions
Dai Yaochi’s extant work is Shang Han Zheng Jie (The Correct Explanation of the Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases).
The four-volume Shang Han Zheng Jie (The Correct Explanation of the Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases) is a commentary on the Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases), compiled by the Qing dynasty herbalist Dai Yaochi. It was published in the tenth year of the Tongzhi era (1871 CE). At the beginning of the book, there are prefaces by Cheng Jingxian (程景賢, Chéng Jǐngxían) and Wan Bangfu (萬邦福, Wàn Bāngfú), as well as a preface by Dai Yaochi himself.
The first volume of the monograph discusses the exterior syndromes of Taiyang; the second volume discusses the exterior and interior syndromes of Taiyang, and the interior syndromes of Taiyang; the third volume discusses the exterior syndromes of Yangming, the exterior and interior syndromes of Yangming; the syndromes of Taiyang and Yangming, the syndromes of Shaoyang, combined syndromes, and overlapping syndromes; the fourth volume discusses the syndromes of Taiyin, the cold syndromes of Shaoyin, the heat syndromes of Shaoyin, the heat syndromes of Jueyin, and the cold syndromes of Jueyin. A postscript by Zhou Xiaoqian is appended at the end of the fourth volume. Each chapter contains entries on pulse diagnosis and syndrome differentiation. The work emphasizes that the six channels must be distinguished first in diagnosis, and integrates the eight principal syndrome differentiations into the six-channel syndrome differentiation framework.
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- 1.Dai Yaochi: Biographical Introduction and Historical Accounts, Major Works and Academic Contributions
