• Korean Journal of Oriental Medicine
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.11-17
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• 2010

YiHui(宜彙) is medical book written in 19th century. It's author is known as an intellectual. His pen name is GumLiSanIn(錦里散人). YiHui is a important book to show us medical treatment in Chosun-Korea 19th century. We purposed to analyze contents of YiHui and organize its Historical meanings. For that, we studied about GumLiSanIn. Then we explained contents of each chapter of this book. YiHui - title of book means gathering important treatment. Like that, this book contains a lots of skills and prescriptions origined from classic Chinese and Korean medical books. Many methods of this book are invented by practitioners who played an active part in the folk. Furthermore, its treatments is very simple and its hurbs is getatable to be used easily. Yihui inherits the tradition of Hyangyak that is local herb medicine of Chosun.