Sung and figure by "compendium"

Two years (1057) year of jiayou Su Songren correction medical officer, involved in compiling the jiayou materia medica "at work, found that the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) many figure and accurate fault, and the tang dynasty compendium of material medica in the new figure, tianbao monotherapy diagram and other medical books and figure, had lost, he suggested, to the figure by the temples.

Sung (1020-1101), the word capacity, the quanzhou deep in the song dynasty (now fujian deep county) people, after moving to jiangsu danyang. Qingli periods in two years (1042) jinshi, President of jiangning magistrate of a county, and successively, li Ren Ying states, such as hangzhou, city states, yangzhou year. In the community, water conservancy, relief victims, concerned about the sufferings of the people, by the court's recognition and in the office. Of Dr Too often, calibration medical officer, know ZhiGao, ministers, ministers right servant punishments and assistant minister in the book.

Two years (1057) year of jiayou Su Songren correction medical officer, involved in compiling the jiayou materia medica "at work, found that the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) many figure and accurate fault, and the tang dynasty compendium of material medica in the new figure, tianbao monotherapy diagram and other medical books and figure, had lost, he suggested, to the temples map," know that medicine according to ". Movable follow his advice, and make it compiles "compendium". Sung a general doctors and medicine home presented medicine specimens and figure, lead the subordinates to check together, add accounts, do rectification is incorrect, textual research. 4 years, completed the first figure of Chinese materia medica 21 volumes, contributing to the correct drug chaos and administration.

"Compendium figure of extensive contents, medicine figure 933, graphic consistency, conducive to recognize, fully inherited the medical achievement of the song before, refer to more than 200 kinds of social science and natural science books, over 1000 years commonly used unilaterally, provides useful information to identify and apply drugs. A drug such as fritillaria, beginning the cold-induced febride fritillary bulb to do medicinal, but not its shape. Compendium of material medica write down its shape for tang "leaf like garlic," but vague. Fritillaria and figure by "compendium" records: a disc in yellowish-white of "root", "born February seedling stem thin cyan, Ye Yiqing buckwheat leaves, with miao, flowering aquamarine in July." Describe specific and easy to recognize. In the article "licorice", not only describe the morphological characteristics, also documented the typhoid miscellaneous disease theory of licorice in formula and the treatment of disease; In the article "dandelion", cited the daughter s treatment of evil thorn and fox urine of formula; In rhizoma anemarrhenae article cited the emergency elbow rear creek cure poison recipe.

Sung in the history of hundred, and calendar XingSuan, author of "su wei gong corpus", "method of new instrument like", "wei gong inscription", "Sue assistant minister set" and "wei gong xun. Erudite knowledge, and thus of the figure by "compendium" is not only the content of the medicine, but also compatible with the zoology, botany, phenology, mineralogy, metallurgy, and the content of the natural science such as physics, chemistry, also involves philosophy and classics, history, philology, xian, folklore and religion, such as the content of the social sciences, has a large influence on the development of the later medicine, have the function of the future. British scientist Joseph Needham evaluation "compendium figure sutra says:" is sung in ancient China and one of the greatest naturalist and scientists of the middle ages. He wrote in 1061 of "compendium figure sutra is a masterpiece in the history of medicine." Indeed, "Ben figure of a book, is the world's feat in the history of medicine, ahead of Europe more than 400 years.