The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts

    Translation and Commentary

    by

    DONALD J. HARPER

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    British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

    Harper, Donald J.

    Early Chinese medicrtl literature ： the Mawangdui medical

    manuscripts. - (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series)

    1 .Medicine, Chinese

    I.Title

    61.9'51

    ISBN 0710305S26

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Harper, Donald James

    Early Chinese medical literature : the Mawangdui medical

    manuscripts translated and study by Donald Harper.

    p. cm. — (Sir Henry Wellcome Asian series ： v. 2)

    Texts of medical manuscripts translated from Chinese

    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

    ISBN 0-7103-0582-6 (alk. paper)

    1 . Medicine, Chinese-Earl y works to 1800. 2. Ma-wang-tui Site

    (China) 3. Manuscripts, Chinese. I. Title. II. Series.

    R127.1.h3 7 1996

    610'.951--dc21 96-47823

    CIP To the Memory of Edward H. Schafer (1913-1991) CONTENTS

    List of Figures

    Preface

    Prolegomena

    Introduction 3

    Section One: Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts 14

    Manuscript Discovery 14

    List of Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts and Texts 22

    Other Excavated Manuscripts Related to Medicine 30

    Provenance and Hermeneutic Issues 36

    Section Two: Medicine, Medical Literature, Medical Men 42

    Recipes, Techniques, Calculations, Arts 45

    Readership and Transmission 55

    Section Three: Medical Ideas and Practices 68

    Illness 69

    Physiology 76

    Therapy 90

    Materia Medica 98

    Section Four: Macrobiotic Hygiene n o

    Intellectual Background 11 2

    Body and Spirit 119

    Techniques 125

    Philosophy and Macrobiotic Hygiene 142

    Section Five: Magic 148

    Magical Recipes 150

    Varieties of Magic 159

    Recipes of Yue 173

    Translation

    Introduction 187

    MSI MSI.A Zubi shiyi mai jiujing” 足臂十 - 脈 灸

    經(Cauterization canon of the eleven vessels

    of the foot and forearm) T92

    MSI.B “Yin Yangjhiyi mai jiujing ， ” 陰陽 十

    -脈灸經甲本(Cauterization canon of

    the eleven Yin and Yang vessels, ed. A) 203 MSl.C Maifa脈法(Model of the vessels) 213

    MSI.D “Yin Yang mai sihou 陰陽脈死 候

    (Death signs of the Yin and Yang vessels) 219

    M5I.E “Wushier bingfang i l 十 二病方(Recipes

    for fifty-two ailments) 221

    MSll MSII.A “Quegu shiqi却榖食氣(Eliminating

    grain and eating vapor) 305

    MSII.C Daoyin tu ......