An important breakthrough in the study of "Compendium of Materia Medica": more than 90% of citations can be traced to the source
"The publication of "Course Source of Compendium of Materia Medica" enabled 94.7% of the citations of "Compendium of Materia Medica" to be traced." A few days ago, Zheng Jinsheng, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, introduced the recently published "Citation of Compendium of Materia Medica" in an online lecture on the Materia Medica Research Forum An important breakthrough in the study of "Compendium of Materia Medica".
Zheng Jinsheng has been engaged in the research of herbal medicine for more than 40 years. He has served as the director of the Chinese Medical History Document Institute of the Chinese Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences and the academic leader of the Chinese medical history literature. The editor-in-chief published the "Chinese Classics·Pharmaceutical Branch" and the "Overseas Chinese Medicine Rare Books Ancient Books Series" "Wait.
Zheng Jinsheng introduced that the "Compendium of Materia Medica" cited 993 bibliographies. There is a problem that the bibliography is not standardized and there is no distinction between first-hand and second-hand bibliography. "Bencao Gangmu Citation Source" traces the origin of the names and titles actually cited in the "Bencao Gangmu" bibliography and text, and corrects many problems with the same name and different books. The source of the citations specified in "Compendium of Materia Medica" is either the abbreviation of the book title or the abbreviation of the author, and there may be multiple abbreviations, which makes it difficult to clarify the source. For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica" Volume 14, "White Cardamom", lists the main indications of the medicine including "tonifying the lung qi, benefiting the spleen and stomach, regulating vital energy, and recuperating and degassing. (Good old)" Good ancient is the medical doctor Wang Haogu of the Yuan Dynasty The abbreviation of, there are no such quotations in his five handed down medical books. "Compendium of Materia Medica" cited more than 200 "good ancient" medicine theories, and more than 80 were not found in the medical texts handed down from generation to generation. This question is related to the authenticity of Li Shizhen's quotation. "The Origin of the Compendium of Materia Medica Quotations" uses Wang Haogu's "Yin Yin Tangzhong Zhongjing Widely Dafa", which has returned from Japan, through this book that is considered to be scattered, traced back to more than 80 "good ancient sayings" cited by Li Shizhen The original, "White Cardamom" quotation was made by Li Shizhen mixing and extracting relevant documents from Volumes 2 to 4.
In addition, Zheng Jinsheng believes that some of the citations cited by Li Shizhen are wrong. For example, "Compendium of Materia Medica", Volume 52, "Puppet", Li Shizhen said: ""Xuanzhenglu" Cloud: Song Xuanhe early, Zhu Jie's wife's forty-one, Xi Xie itching, until the Ming must be long." But the Ming Dynasty Zhang Jin's "Xuanzheng Lu" does not have this record. This quotation actually comes from the "Xuanzheng Miscellaneous Records" of Jiang Wanli in the Song Dynasty. "Tracing to the Source of Compendium of Compendium of Materia Medica" not only explains Li Shizhen's mistakes, but also lists the original "Xuanzheng Miscellaneous Records".
Zheng Jinsheng pointed out that "Quality of the Citation of Materia Medica" can not only test the authenticity of the citation of "Compendium of Materia Medica", to appreciate the profound skill of Li Shizhen's "continuous repetition", but also make up for the "citation is not detailed, and the annotation is not correct" in "Compendium of Materia Medica" The shortcomings, which have the characteristics of keeping the quotation and the original text, are new attempts to sort out the "Compendium of Materia Medica" and confirm the authenticity of Li Shizhen's quotation.
Zhou Yunyi, an associate professor at the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, pointed out that in the past two years Zheng Jinsheng and his research team have published books such as "Comparison of Materia Medica Film School", "Quality of Citation of Materia Medica", "Sequence of Materia Medica", "Notes on the Study of Materia Medica", etc. Significant progress has been made in the study of "Compendium of Materia Medica" in terms of proofreading, annotation, traceability, and textual interpretation. In particular, "Trace the Origin of Compendium of Materia Medica", the workload is very huge, and it is groundbreaking and demonstrative in the research methods of herbal literature. Li Feng, Dean of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine pointed out: ""Tourism of the Compendium of Materia Medica" will open a new door for the study of herbal literature."
(Reporter Chen Xue)