《医林口谱六治秘书》药名及剂量隐语的破译

Deciphering the argots of the names of materia medica and its dosage in the Yi lin kou pu liu zhi mi shu （ A Secret Medical Book of Six Therapies in Rhymes of Medical Professionals ）

《医林口谱六治秘书》系清代名医周笙在陆圻《医林口谱》的基础上纂注增补而成。全书4卷，内容以内科杂病为主，兼及外、妇、儿诸科，在辨证论治、遣方用药方面颇有特色，具有较高的学术价值和实用意义。书中有20味药物的名称使用了隐语，如“由车”是黄连的隐语，“五月”是吴茱萸的隐语，等等。表示药物剂量的数词和量词也常常使用隐语，如：“苏、畦、紫、气、满”分别是“一、二、三、四、五”的隐语，“藿、圃、香、风、来”分别是“六、七、八、九、十”的隐语，“轻、重、细”分别是“钱、两、分”的隐语。破译这些隐语，为正确理解和运用该书方剂提供了便利。

Yi lin kou pu liu zhi mi shu （A Secret Medical Book of Six Therapies in Rhymes of Medical Professionals） was additionally compiled, supplemented and annotated by Zhou Sheng, a famous doctor of the Qing Dynasty, based on Yi lin kou pu （Rhymes of Medical Professionals） which was composed by Lu Qi. The book contains four volumes in total, dealing mainly with the miscellaneous diseases of internal medicine, as well as external medicine, gynecology, and pediatrics etc. The syndrome differentiation and treatment, prescriptions and medications in this book has its own characteristic with rather high academic value and practical significance. There were 20 drug names were deciphered by the argots, for instance, ＂you che＂ was the argot of golden thread, and ＂wu yue （May）＂ was the argot of medicinal evodia fruit, etc. In addition, the argots were often used to decipher numerals and quantifiers, for example, ＂su, qi, zi, qi, man＂ referring to 1,2, 3, 4, 5 respectively, and ＂huo, pu, xiang, feng, lai＂ referring to 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 respectively, and ＂qing＂, zhong＂, ＂xi＂ referring to qian, liang and fen respectively. Hence, deciphering of these argots could help to understand and apply these prescriptions correctly.