Is Huang Huang really capable?

Speaking of classic prescriptions, almost no one in the field of Chinese medicine knows this ancient and modern term. Classic prescription is the ancient name for experienced prescription. For example, in the classification of bibliographies in the Han Dynasty, medical books that study medical theories, especially the principles and methods of health preservation, are classified as "medical classics", and the experience handed down from ancient times is classified as "classics".

According to the Records of Hanshu Yiwenzhi, there were 1 1 classics, with a total of 274 volumes. But unfortunately, because of the war and other reasons, so many classic books are out of sight today. However, many ancient experiences with high clinical practical value are kept in one book, which is Zhang Zhongjing's Treatise on Febrile Diseases.

Treatise on Febrile Diseases is the ancestor of classic prescriptions.

Zhang Zhongjing is from the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is said that he used to be a magistrate in Changsha. Later, because the disease was prevalent at that time, the mortality rate was very high. In the past ten years, two-thirds of his originally rich family died, and seven out of ten of them died of typhoid fever.

Great changes in the family prompted Zhang Zhongjing to study medicine angrily. On the one hand, he studied many medical works left by predecessors and their experiences and lessons in treating diseases, on the other hand, he collected clinically effective experience everywhere. In his words, it is "diligently seeking ancient teachings and learning from others", which is another name for classics.

Therefore, Treatise on Febrile Diseases concentrated the essence of the classic prescriptions before the Han Dynasty, and later people called it "the ancestor of the classic prescriptions", which is not excessive, because after more than 800 years of clinical verification, the clinical guiding value of Treatise on Febrile Diseases is recognized, and the clinical efficacy of the classic prescriptions recorded in the book is also true.