Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders (Shanghan lun)
Tratado de las enfermedades febriles (Shanghan lun)
- Date
- c. 200-210 · confidence medium
- Place
- Changsha, Hunan, China
- Credited to
- Zhang Zhongjing
- People
- 👤 Zhang Zhong Jing150–219
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
It classifies febrile diseases into six stages according to their course and links specific prescriptions to each. It is the first Chinese clinical treatise based on differential diagnosis, and its formulas are still used today.
The tradition that places Zhang Zhongjing as governor of Changsha is a late addition.
What it led to
- symptom-based clinical pharmacology
- schools of traditional Chinese medicine