This book is abbreviated as Zhenglei Bencao, written by Tang Shen-wei of the Song Dynasty. Its initial draft was completed in 1082, and the final version was finalized around 1098.

Zhenglei Bencao was compiled based on Zhang Yu-xiJiayou Materia Medica and Su SongBencao Tujing, collecting folk prescriptions, various medical classics, and relevant materia medica records from historical biographies, Buddhist scriptures, and Taoist texts. The book consists of 31 volumes, with the first two volumes serving as an introduction. The subsequent volumes classify drugs into 13 categories: jade and stones, herbs, trees, humans, beasts, birds, insects and fish, fruits, grains, vegetables (each further divided into upper, middle, and lower grades), unused names, extra herbal classes from the illustrated classics, and extra vine classes from the illustrated classics. It details drug aliases, medicinal properties, indications, origins, collection methods, processing, analysis, and appended prescriptions. The book is rich in content, documenting 1,746 drugs, including 660 newly added ones, with 294 medicinal illustrations. It is systematically classified and thoroughly discussed. The book cites a vast amount of literature, referencing over 240 historical and medical texts (as listed in Revised Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Materia Medica after Cao Xiaozhong's preface, citing 247 sources, including Bencao Yanyi). Important materia medica works such as Kaibao Bencao, Rihuazi Bencao, and Jiayou Materia Medica have long been lost, but their contents were fortunately preserved in Zhenglei Bencao, a significant achievement of Tang Shen-wei. The book adds over 1,000 medical theories and appends more than 3,000 ancient and modern prescriptions. In summary, Zhenglei Bencao systematically summarizes pre-Song materia medica achievements and remained a research model for over 500 years until the advent of Bencao Gangmu, holding an important position in materia medica.

The book was later revised and renamed

Daguan Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Bencao (abbreviated as Daguan Bencao) in 1108. Further revisions led to titles such as Zhenghe Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Materia Medica (1116) and Shaoxing Revised Jingshi Zhenglei Beiji Bencao

include: the Pingyang Zhang Cunhui Huimingxuan edition from the fourth year of the Mongol Dingzong era (1249), the Yuan Jie edition from the fourth year of the Ming Chenghua era (1468), the Fuchuntang edition from the ninth year of the Ming Wanli era (1582), the Siku Quanshu edition, the {|149|}Sibu Congkan{|150|} edition, the 1597 People's Medical Publishing House photolithographic edition, and the 1964 People's Medical Publishing House full-size thread-bound edition. {|151|} The main extant versions of {|152|}Daguan Bencao{|153|} include: the Chongwen Shuyuan edition from the sixth year of the Yuan Dade era (1302), the Ming Jiajing era edition, the Chen Ying edition from the fifth year of the Ming Wanli era (1577), and the Japanese An'ei fourth year (1775) Mokuso Gen edition. {|154|} The main extant versions of {|155|}Chongkan Jingshi Zhenglei Daquan Materia Medica{|156|} include: the Xuandu Wang Daxian Shangyitang edition from the fifth year of the Ming Wanli era (1577), the Jishan Shuyuan reprint of Wang Daxian's edition from the twenty-eighth year of the Ming Wanli era (1600), and the Shanxi official edition from the thirty-eighth year of the Ming Wanli era (1610).

Shaoxing Materia Medica has long been lost in China but was transmitted early to countries such as Korea and Japan. Several manuscript copies still exist today.