What book is Huangdi Neijing?

Huangdi Neijing is the earliest medical classic in China.

Huangdi Neijing is divided into Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classics in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine. Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which established the theories of yin and yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology and pathogenesis, disease, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck. Based on Huang Laojia's theory, this paper discusses medicine from the perspective of holism, and puts forward a holistic medical model of nature, biology, psychology and society.

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 laid the foundation of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. It is a medical work with great influence in China and is called the medical ancestor.

The influence of the work:

Han Shu's Literature and Art Treatments of Ji Fanglue contains four kinds of Chinese medical classics: Medical Classics, Classic Prescriptions, Immortals and Zhong Fang. Except Huangdi Neijing, other medical classics have died out. Therefore, Huangdi Neijing has become the earliest extant classic of traditional Chinese medicine.

Huangdi Neijing, as a classic of China traditional culture, is not only a classic of Chinese medicine, but also a profound cultural masterpiece. It takes life as the center, discusses the relationship among heaven, earth and human beings from a macro perspective, discusses and analyzes the most basic proposition of medicine: the law of life, and creates the corresponding theoretical system and the principles and technologies for preventing and treating diseases, which contains rich knowledge of philosophy, politics, astronomy and other disciplines.