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This book is a comprehensive medical text. It was written by Zhang Jie-bin in the fourth year of the Tianqi era (1624). It was composed based on a broad collection of various theories, combined with the author's personal academic insights and clinical experience. There are over 30 existing versions, including Ming dynasty prints, a print from the 39th year of the Kangxi era (1700), the Yinghai Jia Tang edition, the Yuejun Lizhao Lou edition, the Yuezhi Lou edition, the Siku Quanshu edition, the Jinchang Shuyetang edition, the Dunhua edition, the Saoyeshanfang edition, and a 1959 photolithographic edition by the Shanghai Science and Technology Press.

The entire book consists of 64 volumes, divided into 16 sections. The first section is "Chuan Zhong Lu" (Volumes 1-3), which focuses on medical theories, emphasizing the doctrine that "yang is not excessive, yin is often insufficient." It criticizes Liu Wan-su and Zhu Dan-xi for their excessive use of cold and purgative methods and advocates for warm supplementation. The second section is "Mai Shen Zhang" (Volumes 4-6), mainly discussing pulse diagnosis and other diagnostic methods. The following sections are various treatises. The third section is "Cold-Damage Disease Canon" (Volumes 7-8). The fourth section is "Miscellaneous Syndromes" (Volumes 9-37), the fifth is "Women's Regulations" (Volumes 38-39), the sixth is "Pediatrics" (Volumes 40-41), the seventh and eighth are respectively "Measles Commentary" (Volume 42) and "Smallpox Commentary" (Volumes 43-45), the ninth is "Surgical Keys" (Volumes 46-47), the tenth is "Bencao Zheng" (Volumes 48-49), which lists 290 medicinal substances, and the eleventh to sixteenth sections are formulas, totaling 2624 prescriptions, also including 12 methods such as stone acupuncture and moxibustion.

This book has played a positive role and influence in enriching and perfecting the foundational theories and clinical treatments of Chinese medicine, and it still holds significant guiding and practical value today. The main existing versions include: the Qing dynasty Kangxi 49th year Huiji Lu Chao edition; the Qing dynasty Kangxi 49th year Jujintang edition; the Qing dynasty Guangxu 20th year Shanghai Tushu Jicheng Printing Bureau lead type edition; the 1926 Shanghai Guangyi Book Bureau lithographic edition; and the 1959 Shanghai Science and Technology Press photolithographic edition.