The earliest works of Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine

The earliest work of Lingnan traditional Chinese medicine is the Essentials of Raw Medicinal Materials. Compendium of materia medica. A "raw herbs", 2 volumes. He Jian's Covenant of the Qing Dynasty was written at the end of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty. Most of them are herbs, including 30 1 herbs. A few words of each medicine, a brief introduction of its nature, taste, efficacy and treatment, and even a morphological alias. There are many products that are not listed in Compendium of Materia Medica, such as fields and throwing sticks. , is a common folk herb in southern China today.

He's Compendium of Materia Medica systematically arranged the experience of Lingnan folk herbs for the first time, which laid the foundation for the development of Lingnan herbalism after the Qing Dynasty. For example, Zhao Yinhu's Searching for Materia Medica, Xiao Budan's Lingnan Materia Medica Collection and hu zheng's Yam Guide are all influential monographs on materia medica after the Qing Dynasty, but they are all supplements and developments based on the theoretical system of this book.

The first volume of this book records 305 kinds of Lingnan raw medicinal materials, and briefly lists their properties, tastes and functions under each medicine, some of which have been widely used in clinic. The second volume is the treatment of seven miscellaneous diseases with raw herbs. The book infers the medicinal properties from the shape of medicinal materials, such as the stems of medicinal materials are square, the opposite leaves are mostly warm, and the oval ones are mostly cold.