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[The version and academic characteristics of Mai jue kan wu (Correcting Errors in Pulse Study in Verse)]
Xianjü Liu1, Fanglin Hu1, Chen Xiang1
1Library, Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, Changsha, 410208, China.
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".
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