Introduction of Medical Characters in WU Kuan's Jia Cang Ji and Analysis on the Inheritance of Danxi School / 浙江中医药大学学报

ABSTRACT

[Objective]To analyze the general characteristics of medical characters in Jia Cang Ji(Home Collected Works),and verify the inheritance relationship of Danxi school in Wu region before the mid-Ming Dynasty.[Methods]Using the literature research method,by sorting out and analyzing the family background,medical activities and social relations of the medical characters recorded in Jia Cang Ji,the lineage of Danxi school in Wu region is clarified.[Results]Most of the medical characters in Jia Cang Ji come from families of medical generation and have frequent communications with each other.Some of them have a close relationship with the Danxi school.WANG Bin is the third-generation successors of Danxi school,while WANG Kuan,SHENG Yin,and HAN Cun are the fourth-generation successors,WANG Min,LIU Yu,and SHENG Kai are the fifth-generation successors,and WANG Guan is the sixth-generation successor.[Conclusion]The records of medical characters in Jia Cang Ji play an important role in clarifying the inheritance of Danxi School in Wu region.It can be seen that Bieji(Collections of Individual Writers)is of great value in discovering the medical historical sources.