Shang Han Lun

August 9, 2007 – 9:13 am

The Shang Han Lin or the Shang Han Bin Lun is the treatasie on Cold Disease Damage by Zhang Zhong Jing published in 220 A.D. by the Hippocrates of Traditional Chinese medicine. The Shang Han Za Bing Lun is the oldest complete clinical textbook in world medical history, and the Shang Han Lun is one of the four most important canonical medical classics which students must study in Chinese medical education.

The Shang Han Lun has 397 sections with 112 herbal prescriptions. The discussion is based on the Six Divisions: [[1]] The Six Divisions of the Shang Han Lun are:

TAl YANG (greater yang): a milder stage with external symptoms of chills, fevers, stiffness, and headache. Therapy: sweating

YANG MING (yang brightness): a more severe internal excess yang condition with fever without chills, distended abdomen, and constipation. Therapy: cooling and eliminating

SHAO YANG (lesser yang): half outside, half inside half excess and half deficiency with chest discomfort, alternating chills, and fever. Therapy: harmonizing

TAl YIN (greater yin): chills, distended abdomen with occasional pain. Therapy: warming with supplementing.

SHAO YIN (lesser yin): weak pulse, anxiety, drowsiness, diarrhea, chills, cold extremities. Therapy: warming with supplementing

JUE YIN (absolute yin): thirst, difficult urination, physical collapse. Therapy: warming with supplementing

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