title: [Methods and intentions of revisions to "Heji Jufang" during the Shaoxing, Baoqing and Chunyou eras].
abstract: The first edition of "Heji Jufang" was published during the Northern Song Period and then revised numerous times. The most commonly used edition of "Heji Jufang" is divided into six pharmacopoeias. This paper reports, the results of this author's examination of the methods and intentions of the revisions made to the "Heji Jufang". At the time that the Shaoxing pharmacopoeia was edited, the same prescription was shown to be given to plural illness divisions. The Xutian pharmacopoeia, which was expanded by Xuhong, includes over 80 prescriptions that are not included in the most commonly used edition today. The method of revising the Baoging pharmacopoeia was to transfer prescriptions of the Xutian pharmacopoeias to the Baoqing pharmacopoeia (the main body of pharmacopoeias). This means that these prescriptions were upgraded to formal pharmacopoeias from supplemental pharmacopoeias. The revision of the Chunyou pharmacopoeia was performed as follows. (1) The main body of "Heji Jufang" was divided into four pharmacopoeias: Daguan, Shaoxing, Baoqing, and Chunyou. (2) For divisions left with no or few prescriptions, prescriptions were incorporated from other divisions. (3) Generally, prescriptions were incorporated to the main body of the pharmacopoeias from supplemental pharmacopoeias. (4) Unnecessary prescriptions in the Xutian pharmacopoeia were deleted.
authors.affiliation: Oriental Medicine Research Center of the Kitasato Institute, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-8642.
authors.forename: Tatsuhiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D049691:History, Medieval; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic / Q000266:history*