Synopsis of the Golden Chamber is a miscellaneous article of Treatise on Febrile Diseases written by Zhang Zhongjing, a famous physician in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is the earliest existing monograph on the diagnosis and treatment of miscellaneous diseases in China, and it is also a clinical monograph on miscellaneous diseases in internal medicine.

Diagnosis and treatment of miscellaneous diseases, the ancestor of prescription, saving suffering without forgetting the living method; Overflow of qi shows the trip of saints. Zhang Zhongjing, a "medical sage", established the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment, which laid a theoretical foundation for future clinical research of traditional Chinese medicine.

Based on the rich experience of diagnosis and treatment before the Eastern Han Dynasty, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber combined with the theories of ying-wei, qi-blood, yin-yang and five elements, and according to the principle of "going to work to prevent diseases" in Huangdi Neijing, it put forward some suggestions on prevention and health care of various diseases. Many prescriptions included in it are still widely used in clinic because of their rigor and refinement.

Brief introduction of the author

Zhang Zhongjing, a famous machine, was born in Nanyang County (now Nanyang, Henan). The famous doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was honored as a "medical sage" by later generations. He studied Neijing and Difficult Classics, collected effective prescriptions extensively, and wrote Treatise on Febrile Diseases. His works were collected by later generations and became two famous medical works, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Synopsis of the Golden Chamber.