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Huangdi Neijing is divided into Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classic in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine (the other three are Difficult Classic, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Herbal Classic).
Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which establishes the theories of Yin and Yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck.
Discussing medicine in a holistic view presents a "holistic medical model" of nature, biology, psychology and society (according to the research of modern scholars, it is considered that the traces of Huang family in this edition are invaded by Taoist priests 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 and lays 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 honored as a "family of physicians" by later generations.
The content of Huangdi Neijing is very extensive. Besides 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 the book a multidisciplinary oral work with medicine as the main body, which has always been valued by doctors and experts in related disciplines.
Historical background
The so-called "medical classics" is a book that expounds medical theories such as human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. It is called "Beijing" because of its importance. The ancients called important books that had certain rules and generally had to be studied "classics", such as the Confucian Six Classics, Laozi's Tao Te Ching, and the simple three-character classics.
The reason why it is called "Neijing" is not that "Yin and Yang of the five internal organs are called" internal "in Wu Kun's Su Wen Zhu and Wang Jiu's Neijing Jing Lun He", nor that "the internal is the way to deal with the world" in Zhang Jiebin's Jing Lei, but just opposite to "external".
This is similar to Hanshu, Hanshu, Chunqiu, Chunqiu, Zhuangzi's Inner Chapter, Han Feizi's Hidden Inside and Waizang, except that Huangdi Waijing and Bai's classics have been lost.