Examination analysis: Huangdi Neijing is the earliest existing medical work in China. The warring States period, the western Han dynasty. It is the foundation work of Chinese medicine, the foundation work of Chinese medicine thinking mode and theoretical system, and the basis of summing up the previous medical practice experience and putting forward meridian theory. So choose C.

Remarks: Summarize in tabular form.

time

author

achievement

World status

The warring States period came out

Compilation of western Han dynasty

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Huangdi Neijing

Basic work of traditional Chinese medicine

Late Eastern Han Dynasty

Zhang Zhongjing

Theory of typhoid miscellaneous diseases

It laid the foundation of clinical medicine of traditional Chinese medicine and was praised by doctors as "an eternal treasure book"

the Tang Dynasty

Tang government

Tang herbal medicine

Pharmacopoeia was first promulgated by the state, more than 800 years before Europe.

Ming dynasty

Li Shizhen

Compendium of Materia Medica

Encyclopedia of oriental medicine