Classics
金匱要略
Essentials from the Golden Cabinet
Zhang Zhongjing, c. 200 CE
The internal-medicine companion to the Shanghan Lun. Where Shanghan addresses externally-contracted febrile disease, Jingui addresses internal damage, miscellaneous disease, and gynecology — covering 40+ diseases with classical formulas still in use.
Authorship
Zhang Zhongjing — companion volume to the Shanghan Lun
Structure
25 chapters, 262 formulas
Organised by disease category: pulse and pattern, sudden disease, chest pain, abdominal masses, jaundice, women’s diseases, and more. The framework integrates with Shanghan such that students learn both texts as a unified internal-medicine system.
Selected passage
夫治未病者，見肝之病，知肝傳脾，當先實脾。
The physician who treats what has not yet become disease, seeing liver disease, knows that liver transmits to spleen — and therefore first strengthens the spleen.
Modern research
Dang Gui Shao Yao San (gynecological formula from Jingui) has multiple modern RCTs for dysmenorrhea and threatened miscarriage. Gua Lou Xie Bai Bai Jiu Tang has emerging cardiology evidence.
Place in curriculum
Year 3–4 alongside Shanghan; clinical rotations integrate both.