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黃帝內經靈樞
Compiled over the same span as the Suwen; the present text was put in order in the Tang.
The Lingshu is the companion volume to the Suwen. Where the Suwen argues from first principles, the Lingshu works at the surface of the…
黃帝內經素問
c. 3rd c. BCE – 1st c. CE; recension c. 762 CE
The foundational dialogue of Chinese medicine, in the recension that survived.
金匱要略
Zhang Zhongjing, early 3rd century CE; recovered and printed in the Northern Song.
The Jingui Yaolüe is what survived of the Shanghan Zabing Lun once the cold-damage half had been extracted: chronic and miscellaneous conditions, arranged by…
難經
Traditionally attributed to Qin Yueren (Bian Que); in its present form no earlier than the Han.
The Nanjing takes the shape of an examination: eighty-one questions, each pressing on a point the Inner Canon states but does not defend —…
傷寒論
Zhang Zhongjing, early 3rd century CE; the received text was reconstituted in the Song.
Written in the aftermath of an epidemic, the Shanghan Lun organises illness into six conformations and matches each to a formula. It is the…
神農本草經
Han, attributed to the culture hero Shennong; a compiled text with no single author.
The Shennong Bencao Jing classifies 365 drugs into three grades — superior, medium, inferior — by whether they can be taken long without harm.…