Tang Touge Ji was published in 1694. More than 300 commonly used prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine were selected and recorded in the book, which were divided into 20 categories, such as tonic, publication, internal attack and vomiting. Summarize and summarize in the form of seven-character songs. Each side is accompanied by a brief note, which is convenient for beginners to learn and recite. It is a widely circulated book on prescription science.

In Chinese traditional medicine prescriptions, a decoction is often composed of many kinds of medicinal materials, and the preparation method is cumbersome, and the names of medicinal materials are abstract and boring, which is not easy to remember and master. So the ancients tried to change some traditional effective prescriptions into poems.

Related background

In ancient times, in addition to hard exploration and practice, medical practice mainly depended on consulting books and bamboo slips. However, it is very inconvenient to compile the commonly used prescriptions into special books and hang them behind your elbows for future reference. So prescription songs came into being. The earliest people who composed Chinese medicine prescriptions into songs had no concept.

At first, this prescription was circulated among doctors, and then it was constantly summarized and improved into a Song prescription. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wang Ang compiled a Collection of Tangtou Songs, which was originally called a rare book.

Before that, there was an Introduction to Medicine by Li Duan, a doctor of the Ming Dynasty. In addition to biographies, maintenance, luck, meridians, viscera, diagnosis, acupuncture and other contents, the book also uses a mixed method of literature and poetry. When listing the contents of prescriptions, the names of drugs are simply included in songs to help memory.

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