Relevant experts believe that Huangdi Neijing can be summarized in three ways. 1. Huangdi Neijing is the first classic of TCM theory. After the emergence of human beings, with diseases, it is inevitable to seek various ways to treat diseases, so the formation of medical technology is indeed much earlier than Huangdi Neijing. However, the formation of Chinese medicine as an academic system began with Huangdi Neijing, so Huangdi Neijing is recognized as the cornerstone of Chinese medicine. This book systematically tells the principles and methods of human physiology, pathology, disease and treatment for the first time, and has made great contributions to human health. After the formation of Chinese medicine, it has protected our Chinese nation, made our Chinese nation endless, and enabled our Chinese sons and daughters to overcome diseases and disasters, which has continued to this day. The Chinese nation without Chinese medicine and Huangdi Neijing is unimaginable. 2. Huangdi Neijing is the first book of health preservation. Huangdi Neijing talks about how to cure diseases, but more importantly, it talks about how to avoid getting sick and how to make us live a long and healthy life to 100 years old without taking medicine. There is a very important idea in Huangdi Neijing: "Prevention of disease". Huangdi Neijing said: "If you don't treat a disease, you can't treat it. If you don't treat it, you will be treated indiscriminately. " "Prevention of disease" means that if a person's liver has a problem, it does not mean blindly treating the liver, but also starting from other organs that are not sick. Liver belongs to wood, kidney belongs to water, aquatic wood, heart belongs to fire, and wood makes fire. Therefore, we should also start with the kidney and heart. "Governance without treatment is chaos" means that if there is a problem in the management mode of a company, it will cause chaos. Don't blindly solve the current chaos, but start with the causes and consequences of chaos. Simply put, it is to solve the front and back ends, and the trouble in the middle does not exist. Huangdi Neijing is the first encyclopedia about life. Huangdi Neijing focuses on life and talks about medicine, astronomy, geography, psychology, sociology, philosophy and history. This is an encyclopedia about life problems. The core of our traditional Chinese studies is actually the philosophy of life, and Huangdi Neijing is the most influential classic of traditional Chinese studies named after Huangdi. There are three wonderful books named after "Jing" in ancient China. The first book is the Book of Changes, the second is the Tao Te Ching, and the third is the Huangdi Neijing. Now, these three wonderful books have not only attracted the attention of Chinese children and descendants of the Yellow Emperor, but also aroused great concern of people all over the world, because their value has become more and more prominent in today's society.

Value contribution

Huangdi Neijing is very rich in content. Su Wen emphasizes the basic theory of human physiology, pathology, disease treatment and man and nature. Lingshu focuses on human anatomy, zang-fu organs, meridians and acupoints acupuncture. What they have in common is a theoretical exposition of related issues, which does not involve or basically does not involve specific prescriptions and technologies for disease treatment. Therefore, it has become the theoretical source of China's medical development and the theoretical basis for physicians to discuss diseases and health. Although the theories of medical scientists are different and controversial, there are few deviations, and almost all of them seek from Neijing as the criterion of argument. This is the reason why modern people must first learn Neijing when learning Chinese medicine. Because, if you don't master the essence of Neijing, you can't understand and implement the understanding, diagnosis, treatment principles, drug selection prescriptions and so on of various clinical diseases in traditional Chinese medicine. Huangdi Neijing, as the theoretical basis and essence of traditional Chinese medicine, has played an important role in the prosperous history of the Chinese nation for nearly two thousand years. Imagine that about 700 years ago, a plague broke out in Europe, and a quarter of Europeans lost their precious lives. Although there was a plague epidemic in China for nearly 2000 years, there was never a painful record like that in Europe, so the role of TCM and Neijing can be fully demonstrated. The completion of Huangdi Neijing marks a new stage of China medicine from empirical medicine to theoretical medicine. Huangdi Neijing summarized the medical achievements before the Warring States Period and provided theoretical guidance for the medical development of China after the Warring States Period. It has laid a theoretical foundation for traditional Chinese medicine in the aspects of holistic view, contradictory view, meridian science, viscera imaging, etiology and pathogenesis, health care and preventive medicine, diagnosis and treatment principles, and has far-reaching influence. Most of the innovations and achievements of famous doctors in theory and practice are closely related to Huangdi Neijing. Huangdi Neijing comprehensively summarized the medical achievements before Qin and Han Dynasties, which marked the development of China medicine to the stage of theoretical summary. This book has a high position in China medicine, and all successful doctors in later generations attach great importance to it. Some of the contents have been translated into Japanese, English, German, French and other languages, which has also had an impact on the development of world medicine.

Related legends

18 volumes of Huangdi Neijing are from ancient times to the present, while 37 volumes of Huangdi Neijing may be lost forever. However, the folklore about it is quite rich and interesting. According to legend, there were three famous doctors during the Huangdi period. Besides Lei Gong and Qi Bo, Yu Yun is the most famous. His medical skill is very clever. Especially in surgery. It is said that he generally does not need soup, needles and massage to treat diseases. However, after the diagnosis of the cause is clear, unless you want to have an operation, you will cut the skin with a knife, dissect the muscle and ligate it. Legend has it that once, when Yu Yu was crossing the river, she found a woman who fell into the water and was salvaged and buried by several people. Yu Yu stopped them from asking how long the victim had been in the water. The man who carried the body said that he had just fallen into the water and died after being fished out. Yu Yu asked them to put the body on the ground. First, they felt the pulse of the deceased, and then looked into the eyes of the deceased. Then they asked someone to find a straw rope, tied the dead man's feet and hung them upside down from the tree. At first, everyone didn't understand why Yu did it. As soon as the dead man was hoisted, he spat out water. When he didn't spit, Yu Yu asked people to untie the deceased slowly, put him on his back and put his hands on his chest. Finally, he pulled out some of his own hair and observed it on the nostril of the deceased for a while. He found that his head started slowly, and then confidently said to the family of the deceased: "She is still alive, take it home and take good care of it!" There are eleven classic physicians recorded in Hanshu Yiwenzhi, while there is only one in Huangdi Neijing. The reason remains to be verified. Among them, Huangdi Waijing was lost. According to the seven classics recorded in Han Shu Literature and Art Records, there were Huangdi Neijing, Huangdi Neijing, Bian Que Neijing, Bian Que Waijing, Bai Neijing, Bai Waijing and Bian Pian.