Theories on the origins of various diseases

Japanese: 諸病源候論 - しょびょうげんこうろん
Theories on the origins of various diseases

A Chinese medical book. Compiled in 610 by Suo Yuanfang of the Sui dynasty at imperial command, it is the only complete book on the etiology, pathology, and morbidity of traditional Chinese medicine. It consists of 50 volumes and 1,726 entries. Of these, 306 entries include the Do-in method as a treatment technique. After this work, Chinese and Japanese medical encyclopedias such as Senkinho, Gedaihiyoho, and Ishinho followed this book as a model for classifying diseases. Therefore, it has had a great influence on later generations. Even today, it is considered a basic text in traditional Chinese medicine, and is particularly useful when interpreting disease names and terminology recorded in the Chinese Classics of Medicine.

The oldest surviving copy published from the Southern Song Dynasty (formerly owned by the Kanazawa Bunko) is kept by the Archives and Mausolea Department of the Imperial Household Agency.

[Hiroshi Osodo]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

中国の医書。610年隋(ずい)の巣元方(そうげんほう)が勅を奉じて編纂(へんさん)した中国伝統医学における唯一の病因・病理・病態学全書である。全50巻、1726項目からなる。そのうち306項に治療術として導引法が付されている。この著作以後、『千金方(せんきんほう)』『外台秘要方(げだいひようほう)』『医心方(いしんほう)』ほか、中国・日本の医学全書は病気を分類するうえでこの書に範をとった。したがってその後代への影響は大きい。今日でも漢方医学における基本典籍とされ、とくに中国医薬古典に記された病名・術語を解釈する際に有用である。

 現存最古の南宋(なんそう)刊本(金沢(かねさわ)文庫旧蔵)が宮内庁書陵部に伝えられている。

[小曽戸洋]

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