《易經》裏的針灸醫術紀錄考釋

Acupuncture and Moxibustion Records in the I Ching 一 A Proposed New Discovery

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

《易經》的卦爻辭有好些是古代歷史和社會、經濟生活的紀錄。王國維在〈殷卜辭中所見先公先王考〉一文裏已開了一條好的先路。顧頡剛、余永梁、李鏡池等在《古史辨》一九三一年的第三冊裏又陸續考定卦爻辭中記有殷商和周初的史事。我於一九六三年春天在美國威斯康辛大學講演，又指出從甲骨文和金文可證《易經》爻辭紀錄古代有忌逆產而棄嬰和徒涉採貝幣的習俗。三年以後在西德和香港各大學講演，又指出過「蠱」、「咸」、「恆」、「巽」諸卦爻辭可能與古代的巫醫有關。現在進一步討論分析「咸」、「艮」兩卦的卦名和卦爻辭所保存的針砭醫術史料。本文已立意多年，一九七九年四月底曾在台北淡江大學講演過大要。現在且先從釐清「咸」和「艮」這兩個字的古代意義説起。(撮要取自內文首段)

Following in the footsteps of Wang Kuo-wei and Ku Chieh-kang, the author has repeatedly pointed out in the last thirty year that the I Ching preserves a number of materials concerning ancient Chinese social, political, economic, and intellectual history, more than we have known, and that they need further examination. In this article the author proposes that acupuncture and moxibustion records may be found in the oracle texts of hexagrams #31, Hsien (Xian), and #52, Ken (Gen) of the I Ching, the most significent Chinese classic closely related to divination, wu shamanism, and the later development of Chinese philosophy and thought. (Abstract taken from first paragraph of document.)