title: [The version and academic characteristics of Mai jue kan wu (Correcting Errors in Pulse Study in Verse)].
abstract: Mai jue kan wu (Correcting Errors in Pulse Study in Verse) was written by Dai Qizong of the Yuan Dynasty without block-printing when completed. It was reviewed and checked by Wang Ji, attached with the main discourses on pulse taking from various scholars of pulse taking and Jiao shi huo mai lun (On Pulse-taking with Corrections on Its Popular Difficult Issues) and was block-printed in 1523. This book corrects the fallacies on the descriptions of pulse shape and pulse body reflecting its underlying diseases appeared in Mai jue (Pulse Study in Verse), refutes its classification of the so-called "Seven exterior", "Eight interior" and "Nine dao (channels)". It also creates the measures for the studies of pulse-taking, including "differentiating, combining, doubling, comparing and classifying".
authors.affiliation: Library, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, 410208, China.
authors.forename: Xianjü
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Library, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, 410208, China.
authors.forename: Fanglin
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.affiliation: Library, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, 410208, China.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Xiang
mesh_terms: D001877:Books / Q000266:history*; D002681:China; D049669:History, 16th Century; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional / Q000266:history*; D011674:Pulse