Huangdi hama jing

The Huangdi hama jing (Chinese: 黃帝蝦蟆經; pinyin: Huángdì hámá jīng), translated into English as the Yellow Emperor's Toad Canon,[1] is a Chinese medical text believed to have been written during the Han dynasty.[2] Although the original manuscript is no longer extant, much of the text was quoted in the Ishinpō, the oldest surviving Japanese medical compendium.[3]

Composition

A Japanese woodblock text titled Weisheng huibian (衛生彙編), dated to 1823,[2] contains content ostensibly copied from a Chinese text known as the Huangdi zhenjiu hama ji (黃帝鍼灸蝦蟆忌), or the Yellow Emperor's Toad Prohibition for Acupuncture and Cauterisation, which is recorded in the Book of Sui.[4] Another source cited in Weisheng huibian is the Taiping yulan. The Taiping yulan in turn refers to the Baopuzi, which supposedly refers to a hama tu (蝦蟆圖) or "toad chart" in the now missing Huangdi yijing (黃帝醫經), although the extant version of the Baopuzi does not contain such a citation.[4]

References

Citations
  1. Lo 2001, p. 61.
  2. Lo 2001, p. 67.
  3. Raphals 2020, p. 542.
  4. Lo 2001, p. 68.

Cited works
  • Lo, Vivienne (2001). "Huangdi Hama jing (Yellow Emperor's Toad Canon)". Asia Major. 14 (2): 61–99. JSTOR 41645576.
  • Raphals, Lisa (2020). "Body, Mind, and Spirit in Early Chinese Medicine". T'oung Pao. 106: 525–551.

Further reading
  • Moden, Lee (2021). The Yellow Emperor's Toad Classic. Wandering Ox Press. ISBN 9781998991204.
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