This book is abbreviated as Qianjin Fang (Qianjin Fang is the abbreviation of Beiji Qianjin Yaofang, and some people also refer to Qianjin Yaofang and Qianjin Yifang collectively as Qianjin Fang), also known as Qianjin Yaofang. Compiled by Tang Dynasty's Sun Si-miao, it collected medical works before the early Tang Dynasty and was completed around the third year of Yonghui (652).

Beiji Qianjin Yaofang has been reprinted over forty times from the Tang Dynasty to the modern era, both in China and abroad, and can generally be divided into two categories. The original text exists in versions that were either not revised by the Northern Song Dynasty's Bureau for Revising Medical Books under Lin Dang, or were revised, both in 30 volumes. Another version in 93 volumes was compiled by Taoist followers in the mid-Ming Dynasty based on early Taoist Canon versions and the Northern Song revised editions. The earliest extant version is the Qiao Shining edition from the Xiaogiu Shanfang in the 22nd year of Jiajing (1543); the Edo medical shadow Song edition from Japan's Kaei 2nd year (1849) is also a good version. The People's Medical Publishing House published facsimile editions based on the Edo medical version in 1955 and 1982. The second category includes detailed annotated editions and selected editions.

The content of the 30-volume version includes: Volume 1 as a general introduction to medicine, covering medical ethics, materia medica, pharmaceutical preparation, etc.; Volumes 2-4 on gynecological diseases; Volume 5 on pediatric diseases; Volume 6 on seven orifices diseases; Volumes 7-8 on various wind and foot qi; Volumes 9-10 on cold-damage disease; Volumes 11-20 on zang-fu organ diseases; Volume 21 on consumptive thirst and urinary blockages; Volume 22 on sores, swellings, and ulcers; Volume 23 on hemorrhoid and fistula diseases; Volume 24 on detoxification and miscellaneous treatments; Volume 25 on emergency techniques; Volumes 26-27 on dietary therapy and health preservation; Volume 28 on normal pulse; Volumes 29-30 on acupuncture and moxibustion point indications, totaling 233 categories, containing over 5,300 prescriptions and theories, establishing a format of categorizing diseases and listing prescriptions. The book systematically summarizes the medical achievements before the Tang Dynasty, with extensive material and rich content, covering various clinical departments, acupuncture and moxibustion, dietary therapy, pharmacology, prevention, and health care. The book includes both descriptions and creations, with both empirical and classical formulas, making it the first comprehensive medical masterpiece in China with principles, methods, recipes, and medicines. Following Zhang Zhong-jing's cold-damage disease Zabing theory, it represents another summary of Chinese medicine and is hailed as the earliest clinical medical encyclopedia in Chinese history.