蔡西山《脉经》考

蔡元定 (西山 )为南宋巨儒 ,其《脉经》在国内久已亡佚。依据元·戴起宗《脉诀刊误集解》、明·刘浴德《医林续传》等 ,考得从日本内阁文库回归的《诊脉须知》卷四“脉经” ,正是蔡氏《脉经》的节选本。蔡氏论脉有重脉理本原而疏于具体脉象主病的特点。

A study on Cai Xishan's Mai jing (Pulse classic)

Cai Yuanding, also named Cai Xishan, was a great Confucian scholar in the Southern Song dynasty, and his book, Mai jing (Pulse Classic), was long lost in China. According to Dai Qizong's Mai jue kan wu ji jie (Collected Annotations of Correcting Errors in Pulse Study in Verse) of the Yuan dynasty, Liu Yude's Yi lin xu chuan (Extending Biography of Medicine) of the Ming dynasty etc., the author makes a study on "Pulse Classic", the fourth volume of Zhen mai xu zhi (Notice of Pulse Taking), a book came back from the Cabinet Library of Japan and holds that it was an extract edition of Cai's Pulse Classic. When discussing the pulse, Cai paid attention to the theory of pulse while neglected the pulse conditions and its indications, which was further researched by the author.