• The Journal of Internal Korean Medicine
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• v.45 no.3
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• pp.415-428
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• 2024

Objective and Methods: This study examined Cheng Guopeng (程國彭)'s understanding of Shanghan Disease (傷寒病) through <Yixue xinwu (醫學心悟)>, created tables based on this, and these tables were compared with <Shiyong zhongyi neike biaodian (實用中醫內科表典)>'s table on Six Meridian Pattern Identification (六經辨證). Results and Conclusion: 1. <Yixue xinwu> and <Shiyong zhongy neike biaodian> were mostly similar regarding the pathology and the Six Meridian Pattern Identification of Shanghan Disease. However, <Shiyong zhongyi neike biaodian> selected terms that encompass internal medical diseases rather than terms that refer only to infectious diseases. 2. About Taiyang meridian disease (太陽 經病), <Yixue xinwu> recognized the existence of Wen bing (溫病) and Re bing (熱病), but did not regard them as True Shanghan Disease (正傷寒), and differentially diagnosed them as Similar Shanghan Disease (類傷寒). 3. About Yangming meridian disease (陽明 經病), <Yixue xinwu> understood this as a meridian transmitted heat-syndrome in the interior (傳經 裏熱證), and created a new Radix Puerariae Decoction (葛根湯). This prescription has the same name as the <Shanghanlun (傷寒論)>, but it has a different drug composition and indications. 4. About three-In meridian disease (3陰 經病), <Yixue xinwu> always divided it into two categories: meridian transmitted heat-syndrome in the interior (傳經 裏熱證) and meridian stroked cold-syndrome in the interior (直中 裏寒證). However, <Shiyong zhongyi neike biaodian> described Taiin disease (太陰病) as Spleen-stomach deficiency cold-syndrome (脾胃虛寒證). This means that meridian transmitted heat-syndrome in the interior (傳經 裏熱證) does not exist among Taiin disease.