Chinese medicine is the four great classics or the six great classics

At present, academics generally regard Huang Di Nei Jing, Nanking, Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases, and Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing as the four major classics of Chinese medicine. There are also some Chinese medicine textbooks that regard Huangdi Neijing, Typhoid Treatise, Essentials of the Golden Chamber, and Treatise on Warm Diseases as the four classics. The former statement is currently used more.

1, "Huang Di Nei Jing" laid the foundation for the understanding of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, and treatment, and is a highly influential medical work in China, known as the originator of medicine.

2, "The Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" is one of China's traditional medical works, written by Zhang Zhongjing, and is still one of the main basic courses offered by China's traditional Chinese medicine colleges and universities. 2003, during the SARS outbreak, the book and Zhang Zhongjing became the focus of attention once again.

The Treatise on Typhoid Cold and Miscellaneous Diseases systematically analyzes the causes, symptoms, stages of development, and treatment of typhoid fever, and creatively establishes the principle of "six-meridian classification" of typhoid fever, laying down the theoretical foundation of reasoning, methodology, prescription, and medicine.

3, "Difficult Classic" was originally known as "Huangdi 81 difficult classic", also known as "81 difficult", is a classic work of traditional Chinese medicine existing earlier. About the "difficult classic" of the author and the age of the book has always had different views, the general view is that it was written no later than the Eastern Han Dynasty, the content may be with the Qin Yue people (magpie) have a certain relationship. The word "difficult" in "Nanking" has the meaning of "difficult to ask" or "difficult to doubt".

The whole book***81 difficulties, using questions and answers, exploring and discussing some theoretical issues of Chinese medicine, including pulse diagnosis, meridians, internal organs, yin and yang, cause of disease, disease mechanism, Ying and Wei, acupoints, acupuncture, acupuncture, and evidence of disease.

4, "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", also known as "Ben Cao Jing" or "Ben Jing", one of the four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine, as the earliest existing works of traditional Chinese medicine, about the origin of the Shennong's, the generations of oral transmission, in the Eastern Han Dynasty collection of books, books are not a moment, the author is not a person, the Qin and Han period of many medical doctors to collect, summarize, organize the results of the experience of the pharmacological monograph.

It is the first systematic summary of Chinese medicine. Most of the theories of traditional Chinese medicine and the rules of compounding, as well as the principle of "seven feelings and harmony", have played a great role in the practice of medicine for thousands of years, and are the source of the development of the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and pharmacology. Before Li Shizhen published the Compendium of Materia Medica, it was regarded as the most authoritative medical book.

Value Contribution

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, as the theoretical and ideological basis of traditional medicine and the essence of the motherland, in the nearly 2,000 years of the Chinese nation's long history of prosperity, its dominant role in medicine and contribution to the contribution of the credit.?

Imagine, roughly 700 years ago, the plague outbreak in Europe, a quarter of the Europeans lost their precious lives, and China's nearly 2,000 years of history, although there is also a plague epidemic, but there has never been a record as tragic as the European, the role of traditional Chinese medicine and the "Nei Jing" can thus be fully demonstrated.

The writing of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine marked a new stage in the evolution of Chinese medicine from empirical to theoretical medicine. It summarized the medical achievements of the pre-war period and provided theoretical guidance for the development of Chinese medicine after the Warring States period.

It laid the theoretical foundation for Chinese medicine in various aspects, such as holistic view, contradictory view, meridian and collateral science, dirty image science, etiology and pathogenesis, health maintenance and preventive medicine, as well as diagnostic and treatment principles, etc., with far-reaching influence. Most of the innovations and achievements in theory and practice made by famous medical practitioners in the past generations have a close relationship with the Huangdi Neijing.

References

Baidu Encyclopedia - The Four Great Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine