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Huangdi Neijing is divided into Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classic in China. One of the four classic works of traditional medicine, the other three parts are Difficult Classics, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Materia Medica. Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which founded the theories of Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Pulse, Meridian, etc.
Etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation, luck and other theories discuss medicine with a holistic view, showing a "holistic medical model" of nature, biology, psychology and society (according to the research of modern scholars, this edition of the Taoist of Huang Lao is considered to be the invasion of Wang Bing, a Taoist priest in Sui and Tang Dynasties.
Its basic material comes from the long-term observation of life phenomena in ancient China, a lot of clinical practice and simple anatomical knowledge. Huangdi Neijing is the earliest and most influential medical classic in China. The compilation of Huangdi Neijing marks the formation of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, which has laid a solid foundation for the development of traditional Chinese medicine in recent years. It occupies an important position in the medical history of China and is respected as a master physician by future generations.
The content of Huangdi Neijing is very extensive. In addition to medical theory, it also records the knowledge and achievements of ancient philosophy, astronomy, meteorology, phenology, biology, geography, mathematics, sociology, psychology, temperament and other disciplines, and permeates these knowledge and achievements into medical theory, thus making this book a multidisciplinary oral work with medicine as the main body, which has always been valued by doctors and experts in related disciplines, and has become an academic circle at home and abroad.
The era of writing
Huangdi Neijing, also known as Neijing, is one of the earliest ancient books in China and the first of the four classics of traditional medicine in China. According to legend, it was made by the Yellow Emperor, hence its name. However, it is generally believed that this book was finally formed in the Western Han Dynasty, and the author was not a single person, but was created by Huang Lao, a doctor in China.
As pointed out in "Huai Nan Zi Xiu Wu Xun", the title of "Yellow Emperor" is intended to trace back to the source and worship the original to illustrate the early birth of China medical culture. It's not a moment's talk, nor is it a single hand.