Aim of Editing of Kokon Hoi / 日本東洋医学雑誌

ABSTRACT

The <I>Kokon Hoi</I> was the most widely used formulary in the Edo era.Here the author examines tendencies in the ways various <I>Kokon Hoi</I> editions were quoted, how Koga Tsugen approached his re-compilations, and how this influenced later, traditional Japanese medicine.<br>1. Editions of the <I>Kokon Hoi</I> compiled before Koga Tsugen are mainly quotations from newer works such as the <I>Wanbinghuichun</I>, the other of Gong Tingxian's works and the <I>Yixuerumen</I>.<br>2. Koga Tsugen re-compiled the <I>Kokon Hoi</I> twice as the (essential) <I>Sanpo Kokon Hoi</I>, and the (revised) <I>Jutei Kokon Hoi</I>.In the Jutei <I>Kokon Hoi</I>, the most popular edition of <I>Kokon Hoi</I> today, there are numerous quotes from the <I>Wanbinghuichun</I>, the <I>Yixuerumen</I> and Xue Ji's medical treatises.<br>3. In the re-compiling the <I>Kokon Hoi</I>, Koga Tsugen not only added the new prescriptions, he revised the list of references, and corrected prescription names, as well as the component drugs and doses of prescriptions.<br>4. The original <I>Kokon Hoi</I> was compiled to collect newly introduced prescriptions. Afterward Koga Tsugen aimed to adopt experiential prescriptions by editing the <I>Kokon Hoi</I>.The <I>Kokon Hoi</I> is one of the first formularies in traditional Japanese Kampo to enumerate prescriptions in which experiential effectiveness is regarded as important.<br>5. The <I>Shuhokiku</I> on the other hand, is based on a medical system of ”basic and modified prescriptions”.But the <I>Shuhokiku</I> gradually had become nearer a system of numerous enumerated experiential prescriptions like the <I>Kokon Hoi</I>.