The classic medical books of ancient China include "Difficult Classics", "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", and "Huangdi Neijing".
(1) "Difficult Sutra". The "Difficult Sutra" was originally called "The Eighty-one Difficult Sutras of the Yellow Emperor". It consists of three volumes and was written by a native of Qin and Yue. "Nan Jing" is a classic Chinese theoretical work on traditional Chinese medicine. "Nan" means "asking difficult questions" or "solving difficult problems". "Jing" refers to the "Nei Jing", and "Nan Jing" means "asking difficult questions". "". This book raises the difficulties and doubts in the "Nei Jing", and then explains and analyzes them one by one, and provides a constructive explanation of some issues. The book is divided into eighty-one chapters, each of which discusses the functions and forms of the human body's organs, diagnosis and pulse conditions, meridians and acupuncture, and many other issues one by one. The content includes basic theories such as pulse diagnosis, meridians, internal organs, yin and yang, etiology, pathology, Yingwei, acupoints, acupuncture, etc. It also lists some diseases and syndromes. This book is mainly based on basic theory, combined with some clinical medicine, and focuses on pulse diagnosis, viscera, meridians, and Shu points in the basic theory. Among them, it is difficult to analyze the pulses from 1 to 22, the meridians from 23 to 29, the internal organs from 30 to 47, the diseases from 48 to 61, and the Shu points from 62 to 68. , Sixty-nine to Eighty-one It is difficult to discuss acupuncture. The book's academic insights into Mingmen and Sanjiao, as well as the terms Qichongmen and Bahui discussed in the book, enrich and develop the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, the book also clearly stated that "there are five types of typhoid fever" and elaborated on diseases of the five internal organs, diarrhea and other diseases. It had a certain impact on the development of later generations' typhoid fever theory and febrile disease theory, and is considered the most important classical work. One of the medical books.
(2) "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases". Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Nanyang in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, wrote the original "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases" between 200 and 205 AD. Later generations compiled and compiled the contents of exogenous febrile diseases into "Treatise on Febrile Diseases". This book is a treatise on exogenous febrile diseases and its treatment of miscellaneous diseases. Regular treatise. "Treatise on Febrile Diseases" focuses on discussing a series of pathological changes caused by the human body feeling the evil of wind and cold and how to carry out dialectical treatment. He divided diseases into six types: Taiyang, Yangming, Shaoyang, Taiyin, Jueyin and Shaoyin, which are the so-called "six meridians". Based on factors such as the body's resistance to disease, the progression of the disease, and other factors, the various symptoms manifested in the evolution of exogenous diseases are summarized into the symptoms, location of the disease, which organs are damaged, as well as the tendency of cold and heat, and the pathogenic factors. Its rise and fall are used as the basis for diagnosis and treatment. This book summarizes the medical achievements and rich practical experience of the predecessors, integrates the great achievements of medicine before the Han Dynasty, and combines it with my own clinical experience to systematically expound the syndrome differentiation and treatment of various exogenous diseases and miscellaneous diseases. It has epoch-making significance in history and plays a role in inheriting the past and ushering in the future. It has made important contributions to the development of medicine in the motherland. Specifically, he said that he not only proposed a syndrome differentiation program and treatment methods for the diagnosis and treatment of exogenous diseases, but also provided standards for syndrome differentiation and treatment for various clinical departments of traditional Chinese medicine, thus laying the foundation for syndrome differentiation and treatment and becoming a classic for later generations of doctors.
(3) "Shen Nong's Materia Medica". "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" is also known as "Shen Nong's Materia Medica", abbreviated as "Materia Medica" or "Ben Jing". The author takes "Shen Nong" as his pseudonym. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" is the earliest existing pharmacological monograph in my country. The first systematic summary of clinical medication experience, it has been hailed as a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine in the past. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" is divided into three volumes and contains 365 kinds of medicines, including 252 kinds of botanical drugs, 67 kinds of animal drugs, and 46 kinds of mineral drugs. The book explains the essence of traditional Chinese medicine theory in concise and unsophisticated words. It has detailed records of the origin, properties, collection time, parts used and main diseases of each medicine. It also explains how various medicines are used together with each other, as well as simple Preparations are summarized. "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" also gives a detailed description of the nature and flavor of drugs: it points out that the four flavors of cold, hot, warm and cool and the five flavors of sour, bitter, sweet, pungent and salty are the basic properties of drugs, which can be used to target the coldness of diseases. Choose medicines with different properties such as heat, moisture, dryness, etc. For cold diseases, choose hot medicines; for febrile diseases, choose cold medicines; for damp diseases, use warming and drying products; for dry diseases, cool and moistening products are needed. In addition, we also refer to the relationship between the five elements and the relationship between generation and restraint, and have a good understanding of the meridians, trends, rises and falls, and ups and downs of medicines. Only in this way can we achieve twice the result with half the effort by selecting and combining medicines. The principle of "harmony of the seven emotions" proposed in "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" has played a huge role in thousands of years of medicinal practice.
What needs to be paid is that the current academic circles generally regard "Difficult Classics", "Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases", "Shen Nong's Materia Medica" and "Huangdi Neijing" as the four classics of traditional Chinese medicine, but there is no "Three major medical books". It's just that the "Huangdi Neijing" focuses on "preventing disease" and is considered a health book by some. In fact, the "Huangdi Neijing" is the first theoretical classic of traditional Chinese medicine.