This book is abbreviated as Taisu, also known as Huangdi Taisu. It was compiled by the Sui-Tang period medical scholar Yang Shang-shan. Huangdi Neijing Taisu is a version of the Huangdi Neijing in 18 volumes, with a total of 20 chapters. The chapters include topics such as health preservation, yin-yang, human harmony, viscera and bowels, meridians, acupoints, nutrient-defense qi, body measurements, diagnostic signs, symptom patterns, prescription setting, nine needles, supplementation and drainage; cold-damage disease, cold and heat, evil theories, Feng Lun, qi theory, and miscellaneous diseases. In the early Tang dynasty, the government ordered Yang Shang-shan to oversee the collation and revision of ancient medical texts. Yang expanded the original 20 chapters of Taisu into 30 volumes. After the Southern Song dynasty, the book was lost in China for a time. However, shortly after its publication, Taisu was quickly transmitted to Japan. In the early 19th century, ancient copies of Taisu were discovered in places like the Ninna-ji temple in Japan, attracting the attention of Chinese scholars. From 1880 to 1884, the Chinese scholar Yang Shoujing (Xingwu) visited Japan to collect books and brought back a copy, conducting textual research, annotation, and collation on the text. The extant Taisu is partially incomplete, with the 1987 Japanese Toyo Rare Medical Books facsimile edition being the best version. The common version in China is the 1955 People's Medical Publishing House facsimile based on the Lanlingtang edition by Xiao Yanping.

Taisu is an early work that classifies, annotates, and collates Huangdi Neijing. The Neijing quotations in the book are the closest to the ancient form among existing medical texts and preserve many lost passages from classical medical works. It can be used to collate modern editions of Suwen and Lingshu, and holds significant reference value for studying Huangdi Neijing.