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This is perhaps the single most famous book on traditional Chinese gynecology and obstetrics. Dating from the early Qing Dynasty, this book established many of the disease mechanisms and pattern diagnoses now standard in contemporary Chinese gynecology’s most famous formulas

Fu Qing Zhu Nu Ke (Fu Qing-zhu's Gynecology) is indisputably the single most important premodern Chinese text on fu ke, a.k.a. nu ke, or gynecology. Since it was written in the early Qing Dynasty, it has been one of the most cited of all Chinese fu ke books. Many of the most commonly used TCM fu ke prescrip-tions stem from this text as do many of TCM's theories concern-ing disease mechanism and pattern differentiation vis a vis gynecolo-gy. Although the number of TCM gynecology texts has steadily increased since Fu Qing-zhu's time and although there are other great names in TCM gynecology, such as Zhang Jing-yue, Ye Tian-shi, and Chen Zi-ming, no TCM fu ke specialist can afford to be ignorant of Fu Qing-zhu and his work.

Fu Qing-zhu (1607-1684) was born in Tai Yuan, Shanxi, into an intellectual family known for its study and practice of medi-cine. He was a well-educated man infused with wide-ranging interests. Fu was outstanding in literature, poetry, history, calligraphy, painting, Chinese phonetics, the Daoist classics, and Buddhist scripture. As a child, he showed himself to be exceptionally talented. He also had such a remarkable memory that he could recite by heart anything he read but once. At the young age of 14, he passed the imperial examination at the county level and became a xiu cai or so-called elegant student. At 20, he was granted the lin sheng or the position of a student with financial aid. This was a privileged position and great honor for which many intellec-tuals strived their entire lives to gain. At such a young age, Fu Qing-zhu was on the threshold of the yamen and on the border of the ruling class, the class of Confucian officials. In fact, by this time, Fu Qing-zhu had already established close relations with many of the most powerful men of his day. From the point of view of Confucian official-dom, Fu seemed to have bright prospects in store.