Qibo (岐伯) | 24 Histories

Overview

Qibo was a Legendary Physician.

PeriodAncient China

IdentityLegendary · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

legendary antiquity
Dated from the passage context · Book of Northern Qi 49, passage 3
legendary antiquity
Directly stated · Book of Han 20, passage 352; Book of Han 67, passage 143; History of Jin 131, passage 51; Draft History of Qing 26, passages 58, 60

Key source chapters

History of Jin, Chapter 131 Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 26 Volume 26 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1, Celestial Phenomena, Earth Shape, and Terrestrial Distances 2 passages
Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 49 Volume 49 Biographies 41: Arts 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 20 Table of Ancient and Modern Persons 1 passage
Book of Han, Chapter 67 Volume 57b: Sima Xiangru 1 passage

Career and standing

Second highest grade: men of benevolence 上中仁人
Nine grade table rank · Listed
Directly stated · Book of Han 20, passage 352

Learning and skills

Skill medical diagnosis and prescriptions 病候治方
Directly stated · Book of Northern Qi 49, passage 3

Works and attributed material

Inner Classic 內經
Relation Attributed speaker
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 58
Dialogue · Speaker · With Yellow Emperor (黃帝) · Direct quotation · Mode quotation Speaker Qibo (岐伯) Source Work Inner Classic 內經
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passages 58, 60

Events and relationships

Relation Physician of · Person Yellow Emperor (黃帝)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 26, passages 57-58

Source notes

Historicity legendary
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 26, passage 58

References in the histories

Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 49Volume 49 Biographies 41: Arts · 1 passage

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又神農、桐君論《本草》藥性，黃帝、岐伯說病候治方，皆聖人之所重也。 Shennong and Lord Tong classified herbs in the Root Canon; the Yellow Emperor and Qibo set forth disease and cure—all arts the sages held dear.

Book of Han, Chapter 20Table of Ancient and Modern Persons · 1 passage

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岐伯 Qibo

Book of Han, Chapter 67Volume 57b: Sima Xiangru · 1 passage

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廝征伯僑而役羨門兮，詔岐伯使尚方。 He drafts Boyang and Xianmen as runners and bids Qibo to ready the sovereign's medicaments.

History of Jin, Chapter 131Volume 131 Biographies 69: Huan Zhe, Liang Chong, Song Gui, Pan Shouheng, Fang Ji, Liu Wansu, Zhang Congzheng, Li Qingsi, Ji Tianxi, Zhang Yuansu, Ma Guizhong, Wu Zhen Son: Kang, Li Mao, Hu Dexin · 2 passages

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或曰《素問》、《內經》言天道消長、氣運贏縮，假醫術，托岐黃，以傳其秘奧耳。 Some hold that the Plain Questions and Inner Canon really speak of Heaven's waxing and waning and the ebb and flow of cosmic breath, using medicine and the names of Qi Bo and the Yellow Emperor only as vehicles for hidden doctrine.

古醫書有《汗下吐法》，亦有不當汗者汗之則死，不當下者下之則死，不當吐者吐之則死，各有經絡脈理，世傳黃帝、岐伯所為書也。 Ancient medical texts teach the methods of sweating, purging, and emesis — yet the wrong patient sweated, purged, or vomited will die. Each case has its proper channels and pulse logic. Tradition attributes these books to the Yellow Emperor and Qi Bo.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 26Volume 26 Treatises 1: Astronomy 1, Celestial Phenomena, Earth Shape, and Terrestrial Distances · 2 passages

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岐伯曰：『地為人之下，太虛之中也。』 Qibo answered, 'Earth lies below humanity, suspended in the Great Void.'

曰：『大義舉之也。』」 Qibo said, 'The Great Principle holds it up.'"