부산대학교 도서관

Park In Kyu, the founder of HyungSang Medicine (形象醫學), accomplished his work throughout a life-long and strenuous endeavor. During a harsh historical setting, he had to serve in his sentence and work in various fields, enriching his knowledge and experience that he utilized in establishing his theory.His grandfather, who was a korean medicine doctor, and Kim Nam Chul, an independence movementalist, primarily led his academic achievements. His knowledge on korean medicine, which he attained from his grandfather, was improved by learning JooYuk (周易) and SunDo (仙道) from Kim Nam Chu. On this basis, he grafted his knowledges from HwangJeNaeKyung (黃帝內經) and DongOuiBoGham (東醫寶鑑), and resulted the genesis of HyungSang Medicine. Furthermore, he classified and organized the hyungsang of human by comparing to those of fauna natura and flora natura. Finally he concluded those academic achievements into PalSang (八象) theory and GuGung (九宮) theory. Conceptions based on oriental philosophy, seamless effort, and his findings from SunDo are said to be the major virtues that brought him to academic success.Ji-San studied on the hyungsang of human on the basis that every creature possessed its own hyungsang and it included rules from which we could attain pathological findings. He premised as well that hyungsang depends on not only the constitutions of a human being, but also the influences of one's life.He used deduction and induction together in his system of classification. Shpae, color, character and function developed with deduction. HyungSang from shape includes Jung, Gi, Shin, and Hyel types, while color includes five visceral organs. Character includes six meridian types and function includes Horse, Bird, Fish, and Turtle types. He induced the classification of gender, age, and Dam/Bangkwang types.In history of korean medicine, Ji-San was the first one who emphasized and organized the hyungsang of human being. He suggested several methods of MangJin (望診), which encouraged the importance and prevalence of MangJin in the modern korean medicine. He also cited numerous books and accepted the ideas from those books in his own way, instead of simply duplicating them. He made his theory suitable in medical practice.On this study, it is found that the concepts of 'being and paradox' and 'being and value' should be emphasized in order to understand his theories. Further studies on these concepts are needed to develop his theories.