Introduction of Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing:the Central Treasury Canon.
✵Zhong Zang Jing, also known as Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing, or the Treasured Classic, is a comprehensive book on herbs and treatment. Although its authorship was ascribed to prominent ancient herbalist Hua Tuo, but it might also have been written by an unknown author during the Six Dynasties period. The book contains 49 articles on diagnosis and treatment, pulse taking, Zan and Fu, deficiency and excess syndromes, and cold and heat syndromes, as well as a list of remedies.
Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing (Central Treasury Canon)
Brief Introduction
Chinese Name:
《華氏中藏經》(Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing)
English Name:
Central Treasury Canon, or The Treasured Classic
Author(or Authors):
☯華佗 (Huà Tuó)
Edition age:
East Han Dynasty
Introduction of Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing.
The book Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing, also known as the Central Treasury Canon, the Central Treasury Canon of Hua Tuo, or the Treasured Classic, is a comprehensive ancient book on herbs and treatment. Its authorship is ascribed to the prominent ancient herbalist Hua Tuo, but it was probably written by unknown authors during the Six Dynasties period (the Northern and Southern Dynasties epoch, 386~581 AD). Modern scholars agree that the book was written by Hua Tuo's disciples, Wu Pu and Fan e, who transcribed it from his lectures and spread by copy from followers. The book contains 49 articles on diagnosis and treatment, pulse, Zang and Fu viscera, deficiency and excess syndromes, and cold and heat syndromes, as well as a list of remedies.
The Central Treasury Canon set the Zang-Fu viscera theory as its core theory. It systematically summarized and explained ancient theories about life and disease from articles of the Huang Di Nei Jing (the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classics) and Nan Jing (the Difficult Classics), the author's explanations and supplements, these formed the primary contents of the Zang-Fu viscera theory. This theory had a deep and far-reaching influence on the development of Zang-Fu theory in later years. The theory was inherited and absorbed by later herbalists, such as the Zang-Fu theory in the book Qian Jing Yao Fang (the Invaluable Prescriptions) by herbalist Sun Simiao, the Zang-Fu theory for pediatrics in the book Xiao Er Yao Zheng Zhi Jue (or Key to the Therapeutics of Children's Disease) by herbalist Qian Yi, and the Zang-Fu theory in the book Yi Xu Qi Yuan by herbalist Zhang Yuansu. Almost all of the Zang-Fu theory in the book Yi Xu Qi Yuan was quoted from Hua Tuo's book.
The systematic theory of the Central Treasury Canon set the Zang-Fu theory as its core. It seeks and discusses theories from ancient books such as the Huang Di Nei Jing (Huangdi's Internal Classic) and the Nan Jing (the Difficult Classic), as well as other ancient books on Yin and Yang, Cold and Heat, deficiency and excess, and the differences between Zang and Fu, theory on the pulse and syndromes. Through a comprehensive study, gave play to the mystery, the Canon achieved mastery and formed one of the earliest theories on syndrome differentiation of Zang-Fu viscera. This laid the basis for the syndrome differentiation of Zang-Fu viscera. Its influences is still felt today.
The Central Treasury Canon is composed of three volumes, the 1st and 2nd volumes are about theory, the 3rd volume records approximately 60 remedies for various syndromes. The articles can be classified into 4 parts according to their main subjects. The 1st part is about general theory, from chapter 1 to 20. The 2nd part is about methods to differentiate the deficiency, excess, cold, heat, life and death of the Zang and Fu viscera, and normal and abnormal transmission, from chapter 21 to 32. The 3rd part is about miscellaneous diseases and relevant methods to judge chances of life or death, from chapter 33 to 49. The 4th part is about listed remedies.
The theory of the Central Treasury Canon has some new devotions to ancient classics. They are:
(1). It offered a new interpretation of the theory of the Triple Energizer (or the "three burners"). The earliest records of the Triple Energizer can be traced back to the ancient book Huang Di Nei Jing. Su Wen (Huangdi's Internal Classic. The Plain Questions), in the chapter "Ling Lan Mi Dian Lun", and the debate was recorded in chapter 25 of the Nan Jing (the Difficult Classic). The main topic of debate is the name, function, and existence of the Triple Energizer. In the Central Treasury Canon, the Triple Energizer is defined as "the sea of jade, the water channel, or the waterway", and the recorded functions are "leading the Qi of the five Zang and Six Fu viscera, the Ying and Wei systems, the meridians and channels, the internal and external, and the left, right, upper and lower." It "is intangible in physical but could be separated into parts: the upper, the middle, and the lower". Due to its function of "excretion without storage", the Triple Energizer should be classified as a Fu viscus. Different from the five Fu-viscera, it is known as a separate Fu viscus, and the meridian of the Foot Taiyang is its channel.
(2).It innovates the pathogenesis theory of Zang-Fu disease, and makes differences between Yin and Yang, Cold and Heat, Deficiency and Excess, and Upper and Lower.
(3).It established the syndrome differentiation of eight principles.
References:
1.Introduction of Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing:the Central Treasury Canon.
2.Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing: The Central Treasury Canon, or the Treasured Classic, by Hua Tuo.
2.Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing, collected in the Ping Jing Guan Cong Shu, by Sun Xingyan.
3.Zhong Zang Jing Jiao Zhu: The Collated and Annotated Central Treasury Canon.
✵Zhong Zang Jing, also known as Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing, or the Treasured Classic, is a comprehensive book on herbs and treatment. Although its authorship was ascribed to prominent ancient herbalist Hua Tuo, but it might also have been written by an unknown author during the Six Dynasties period. The book contains 49 articles on diagnosis and treatment, pulse taking, Zan and Fu, deficiency and excess syndromes, and cold and heat syndromes, as well as a list of remedies.
The book Hua Shi Zhong Zang Jing, also known as the Central Treasury Canon, the Central Treasury Canon of Hua Tuo, or the Treasured Classic, is a comprehensive ancient book on herbs and treatment. Its authorship is ascribed to the prominent ancient herbalist Hua Tuo, but it was probably written by unknown authors during the Six Dynasties period (the Northern and Southern Dynasties epoch, 386~581 AD). Modern scholars agree that the book was written by Hua Tuo's disciples, Wu Pu and Fan e, who transcribed it from his lectures and spread by copy from followers. The book contains 49 articles on diagnosis and treatment, pulse, Zang and Fu viscera, deficiency and excess syndromes, and cold and heat syndromes, as well as a list of remedies.
The Central Treasury Canon is composed of three volumes, the 1st and 2nd volumes are about theory, the 3rd volume records approximately 60 remedies for various syndromes. The articles can be classified into 4 parts according to their main subjects. The 1st part is about general theory, from chapter 1 to 20. The 2nd part is about methods to differentiate the deficiency, excess, cold, heat, life and death of the Zang and Fu viscera, and normal and abnormal transmission, from chapter 21 to 32. The 3rd part is about miscellaneous diseases and relevant methods to judge chances of life or death, from chapter 33 to 49. The 4th part is about listed remedies.
