Yu Zhaoyuan: Biographical introduction and historical accounts, major works and academic contributions
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✵Yu Zhaoyuan:a Qing dynasty herbalist and a renowned expert on the Shang Han Lun (the Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases) in the Qing dynasty. He inherited his family studies early and studied Zhongjing's doctrine deeply and effectively. He is the author of Tong Su Shang Han Lun (The Popular Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases).
- Yu Zhaoyuan
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Brief Introduction Chinese Name: 俞肇源 (Yú Zhàoyuán) Alias: 根初 (Gēnchū) Popular Name: 俞根初 (Yú Gēnchū) English Name: Yu Zhaoyuan (family name first) or Zhaoyuan Yu (given name first) Hometown: Shaoxing Taoli Dates: about 1734–1799 CE Main works: 《通俗傷寒論》(Tong Su Shang Han Lun, or the Popular Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases). Representative works: Tong Su Shang Han Lun (The Popular Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases). Biographical introduction and historical accounts
Yu Zhaoyuan, his given name is 肇源 (Zhàoyuán), his alias is 根初 (Gēnchū), a herbalist of the Qing dynasty, born around 1734 and passing away around 1799. Born in Taoli, Shaoxing, he was named Teacher Yu San in the countryside because he was the third child among his brothers. He was a renowned expert on the Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases) during the Qing dynasty. He was born into a family of herbalists for generations. Likewise, he inherited his family's studies at an early age, read medical books from ancient times and his own era, learned the best from each school, and studied Zhongjing's doctrine deeply and effectively, also has elaborations.
Major works and academic contributions
Yu Genchu has few works handed down, and the title of the article with his own experience is known as Tong Su Shang Han Lun (The Popular Treatise on Cold-induced Diseases), which was later compiled and edited by He Xiushan of the same town, and later it was revised by herbalist He Lianchen and published in the 1916 Shaoxing Medical Journal, edited by Qiu Jisheng, and was published successively. Subsequently, it was revised and supplemented by Cao Bingzhang, Xu Rongzhai, and other herbalists for several generations, so that the content was further elucidated and enriched.
Tong Su Shang Han Lun (The Popular Treatise on Cold-Induced Diseases), a twelve-volume treatise on cold-induced diseases originally compiled by Yu Genchu of the Qing Dynasty. The book combines ancient related works, combines personal experience with an in-depth elaboration of the principles of syndromes and the treatment of cold-induced diseases. It is a monograph on seasonal diseases that intensively represents Yu Genchu's academic thoughts ane experiences on treating cold-induced diseases. He believes that wind affection is wind affection, cold affection is cold affection, damp warm syndrome is damp warm syndrome, and warm heat is warm heat. However, they are all included in the department of Shang Han (exogenous febrile diseases). The book focuses on cold-induced diseases and discusses various pathogenic causes, syndromes, symptoms, pulses, and treatments of exogenous febrile diseases. The treatments are based on the past, but they are not stick too precisely to the books, loose but never miss, informative and credible, and practical. Later generations praised it as a masterpiece that "considers the past and the present, adapting to popular trends with flexibility" and as "the comprehensive book on diagnosis and treatment of the four-seasonal diseases".
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