Yangke Xinde Ji ⁽²⁾

General Treatise on External Ulcers (2) Original text: Then how is one to treat them? It is simply to examine the pulse and distinguish the pattern. Generally, before an ulcer has ruptured, the pulse should be exuberant; after it has ruptured, the pulse should be…

The Yangke Xinde Ji (Reflections on the Practice of External Medicine) by the Qing-dynasty surgery master Gao Bingjun is the representative work of the “Xinde” (Reflections) school, one of the three great schools of Chinese external medicine, and it has had an important influence on…