The library — the Chinese medical classics in the original - Classica Sinica Medica https://classicstcm.com/classics/ Read the Chinese medical classics in the original, with pinyin and English on the same line. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:38:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 Huangdi Neijing · Lingshu https://classicstcm.com/classics/huangdi-neijing-lingshu/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:35:50 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/huangdi-neijing-lingshu/ The Lingshu is the companion volume to the Suwen. Where the Suwen argues from first principles, the Lingshu works at the surface of the body: the vessels, their measurements, and what to do with a needle. No chapters are transcribed here yet. This record exists so the bibliography is complete and so each future chapter […]

]]> The Lingshu is the companion volume to the Suwen. Where the Suwen argues from first principles, the Lingshu works at the surface of the body: the vessels, their measurements, and what to do with a needle.

No chapters are transcribed here yet. This record exists so the bibliography is complete and so each future chapter has somewhere to belong.

]]> Huangdi Neijing · Suwen https://classicstcm.com/classics/huangdi-neijing-suwen/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:29:09 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/huangdi-neijing-suwen/ The foundational dialogue of Chinese medicine, in the recension that survived.

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]]> Jingui Yaolue https://classicstcm.com/classics/jingui-yaolue/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:35:52 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/jingui-yaolue/ 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 disease rather than by conformation. Nothing is transcribed yet.

]]> 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 disease rather than by conformation.

Nothing is transcribed yet.

]]> Nanjing https://classicstcm.com/classics/nanjing/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:35:51 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/nanjing/ The Nanjing takes the shape of an examination: eighty-one questions, each pressing on a point the Inner Canon states but does not defend — why the pulse is taken at the wrist, why one vessel is called the source, what the three burners are. Its importance for a reader is that it is the earliest […]

]]> The Nanjing takes the shape of an examination: eighty-one questions, each pressing on a point the Inner Canon states but does not defend — why the pulse is taken at the wrist, why one vessel is called the source, what the three burners are.

Its importance for a reader is that it is the earliest text that argues rather than asserts. Nothing is transcribed yet.

]]> Shanghan Lun https://classicstcm.com/classics/shanghan-lun/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:35:52 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/shanghan-lun/ Written in the aftermath of an epidemic, the Shanghan Lun organises illness into six conformations and matches each to a formula. It is the earliest Chinese medical text that reads like a clinical manual. Its language is also harder than the Suwen‘s: terse, elliptical, and full of shorthand for quantities. Nothing is transcribed yet.

]]> Written in the aftermath of an epidemic, the Shanghan Lun organises illness into six conformations and matches each to a formula. It is the earliest Chinese medical text that reads like a clinical manual.

Its language is also harder than the Suwen‘s: terse, elliptical, and full of shorthand for quantities. Nothing is transcribed yet.

]]> Shennong Bencao Jing https://classicstcm.com/classics/shennong-bencao-jing/ Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:35:53 +0000 https://classicstcm.com/classics/shennong-bencao-jing/ The Shennong Bencao Jing classifies 365 drugs into three grades — superior, medium, inferior — by whether they can be taken long without harm. The number is not accidental: it matches the days of the year. For a reader it is the most tractable text in the corpus: entries are short, formulaic, and each is […]

]]> The Shennong Bencao Jing classifies 365 drugs into three grades — superior, medium, inferior — by whether they can be taken long without harm. The number is not accidental: it matches the days of the year.

For a reader it is the most tractable text in the corpus: entries are short, formulaic, and each is a self-contained unit. Nothing is transcribed yet.

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