Shanghan Lun

Surviving editions

1. Song dynasty edition. Collated by scholastic ministers Gao Baohen, Lin Yi, and Sun Qi under the order of the emperor and published in 1065 AD. Reprinted in the Ming dynasty.
2. Cheng Wuji's Annotated Treatise on Cold Damage. Extensively read in Japan and China, was widely circulated in Cheng's time. However, many transcriptions and re-transcriptions have stirred up disagreement as to whether it is true to the original.
3. Classic of the Golden Chamber and Jade Sheath. This book has the same content as the Song edition with other minor variations in context.
4. Kang Ping edition. Kang Ping is the name of the period from 1058-1068 AD in the Kōhei era in Japan. It is indispensable for study because it retained the ancient style of typesetting dated back to the era at the end of the Han dynasty.

Contents

• Tai Yang : a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy: sweating.
• Yang ming : a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminating.
• Shao yang : half exterior, half interior half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizing.
• Tai yin : chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with supplementing.
• Shao yin : weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy: warming with supplementing.
• Jue yin : thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with supplementing.