bubble_chart Description This book is also known as Xianshou Lishang Xuduan Mifang, Lin Daoren Xianshou Lishang Xuduan Fang. Written by Lin Daoren of the Tang Dynasty.
This book is the earliest extant monograph on Orthopedics and Traumatology in China. The earliest version available today is a block-printed edition from the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1398). In 1957, the People's Medical Publishing House published a collated edition based on the Hongwu edition and the Daoist Canon edition. This edition is a combined publication of Xianshou Lishang Xuduan Mifang, Xianshou Waike Yanfang, and Xianchuan Waike Fang.
Lishang Xuduan Fang scientifically summarizes the main achievements in traumatology before the Tang Dynasty, focusing on the treatment principles and methods for fractures and joint dislocations. It also contains more than 40 medical prescriptions, including decoctions, powders, pills, plasters, lotions, and oral medications, many of which have good efficacy and are in line with clinical treatment patterns. The later theory that early treatment of fractures should promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis was also influenced by this book. The book has many innovations in the reduction of bone and joint dislocations, such as the "chair back reduction method" for shoulder dislocations, which had a significant impact on later generations. The "ladder reduction method" by Wei Yi-lin of the Yuan Dynasty and the currently used "modified Wei's method" for chronic joint dislocation disease also evolved from this.