Origin of Quanyingfanglun of the Southern Song Dynasty

Quanyingfanglun,written by ZHENG Duan-you of the Southern Song Dynasty,is a medical book with clinical achievements.The collection of hand-written Quanyingfanglun is kept in Japan and is not kept in China.The rare book stack-room of the library of China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences,however,collects the fragments of Baoyingquanfang.It is conformed that the two books are synonym after repeated textual research.There are illustrations in the beginning of volume one of Quanyingfanglun drawing five zang-viscera invading by diseases,which are clearer than those in the contemporary book-Youyouxinshu.These illustrations are accompanied by poetries elaborating the methods of syndrome differentiation through observing complexion and finger venules.The similar illustrations were reprinted in many child medical books of the Ming and Qing Dynasties,which indicates that the book had been valued by physicians of the Song Dynasty and has been inherited by later physicians.In last two volumes of the book there are 31 medical records recorded by ZHENG Duan-you,among them there are 8 about risk diseases with poor prognoses.It is helpful for diagnosis and treatment of child diseases.