The list of medicines recorded in this book is mainly based on Benjing, Bielu, Notes on Materia Medica and Materia Medica of Tang and Song Dynasties. Carve jade, grass, wood, people and animals. Ten parts, including birds, insects, fish, fruits, grains of rice and vegetables. According to the classics, the drugs contained in each department are divided into three categories, namely, upper, middle and lower products. * * * contains 18 15 new and old drugs, accounting for 42 volumes. Under the name of each drug, the first is Bamboo Book Classic, followed by Mohist Bielu; Once again, it is divided into name, seedling, place, time, harvest, use, quality and color. Taste, nature, qi, smell, subject, action, auxiliary, anti-drug, control, treatment, combination, prohibition, substitution, taboo, solution and pseudo-sweetness (sweetness is not known to every medicine) reach different names of each medicine respectively. Origin, collection, color, preparation, taste, efficacy, indications, compatibility, contraindications, authenticity, etc. The annotation of each item is based on the description of materia medica in previous dynasties; Those who "don't need to name them one by one" according to the comments of various scholars belong to "Bielu" (not Bielu of famous doctors); If there are similar results in modern times, but the old ones are not fully utilized, a note will be attached, entitled "Sincerely Press".
The advantages of this book are accurate subdivision and concise narrative, which enables readers to systematically understand each drug; Its disadvantage is that the main materials are extracted from the materia medica of past dynasties, rather than the conclusions drawn by the author from actual observation and research, so there are many supplements, but not many inventions.
This book was compiled successfully, but it was not published because of the death of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty. Its book was written earlier than Compendium of Materia Medica, and it has no influence in the history of medicine because it has not been published and circulated. But from the perspective of the development history of traditional Chinese medicine, we should attach importance to this book.
This book has a picture of the Ming Dynasty and a copy of the Qing Dynasty. There are thirteen books of Qing Dynasty in Beijing Library. As for the remaining parts of the painted version of the Ming Dynasty and the copied version of the Qing Dynasty, whether they exist remains to be verified. What we are seeing now is that the Commercial Press reprints and publishes it according to the Qing blueprint before it was lost.