One of the earliest surviving medical books

One of the earliest surviving medical books is the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, divided into two parts, the Ling Shu and the Su Wen, is the earliest medical text in China and one of the four classic works of traditional medicine, the remaining three being the Nanking, the Treatise on Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases, and the Shennong Ben Cao Jing.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is the earliest and most influential medical text in China. The compilation of the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine marks the formation of the theoretical system of traditional Chinese medicine, and lays a solid foundation for the development of traditional Chinese medicine over the past thousands of years, which occupies an important position in the history of Chinese medicine, and has been honored by the later generations as "The Patriarch of the Healers".

The content of Huangdi Neijing is very broad, in addition to medical theory, but also recorded ancient philosophy, astronomy, meteorology, meteorology, biology, geography, mathematics, sociology, psychology, phonetics and other multidisciplinary knowledge and achievements, and these knowledge and achievements penetrate into the medical theory, which makes the book become the main body of the medical science, involves the multidisciplinary oral writings, and has been valued by the majority of doctors and experts in related disciplines, and has become one of the most important and important books in the history of Chinese medicine. It has been emphasized by many medical doctors and experts in related disciplines, and has become an object of study for both Chinese and foreign academics.

The Value and Impact of Huang Di Nei Jing

The Huang Di Nei Jing puts forward a number of important theoretical principles and academic views, and lays down the basic framework of the theoretical system of Chinese medicine. It was assembled into a book based on ancient anatomical knowledge, guided by ancient philosophical thought, and developed gradually from sensibility to rationality, from fragmentation to synthesis, through long-term observation of life phenomena and repeated verification of medical practice.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is not only a great work of Chinese medicine theory, but also a crystallization of Chinese medicine clinical experience and a carrier of Chinese medicine thinking method. It not only has important guiding significance for medical theory, clinical practice and scientific research development, but also has high cultural, philosophical, historical and artistic values.

The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is an important revelation for the research and development of modern medicine and life sciences. The concepts of life, disease, prevention and treatment contained in it are not only of great significance to the development of Chinese medicine, but also provide new ideas and methods for the study of modern medicine and life sciences.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Huangdi Neijing