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This book consists of ten volumes and 97 chapters. It explains 24 types of pulse manifestations, and discusses zang-fu organs, meridian and collateral, disease syndromes, treatment principles, prognosis, etc. It is a masterpiece of the Western Jin Dynasty? Compiled by Wang Shu -he. This is the first existing special book on pulseology in the history of medicine in my country, and is a summary of the knowledge on pulseology in my country before the third century AD. Maijing's opening statement pointed out that "the pulse is subtle and its body is difficult to distinguish" and "it is easy in the heart but difficult to understand with the finger." Maijing compiled and summarized it precisely based on these difficulties. .

Maijing Although it is a work that comprehensively integrates previous scientific achievements, it plays a very important role in the history of the development of medicine in China because of its concise, concentrated length and ease of learning. Great external influence. For example, the Imperial Medical Office of the Tang Dynasty made it a compulsory course, and Japan's ancient medical education was modeled after the Tang Dynasty. Of course, it is no exception. After the book was written, it was gradually spread to the Tibetan area of ??my country and had a significant impact on related disciplines of Tibetan medicine. Through here, Chinese pulse theory was introduced to India and then to Arab countries, which also had an impact on the development of Western European pulse theory. Such as: Ancient Persia (Iran) Yura? Ah A Persian medical encyclopedia Ilhan's Treasures of Chinese Science (13th century to early 14th century) written by Alhamdan (1247-1318) contains Wang Shu-he's name, its pulse theory content is also similar to Maijing. The content on pulseology in the Medical Code of the medieval Arab medical saint Avicenna (980-1037) is also largely the same, showing the influence of Maijing on the history of medical development at home and abroad. So profound.

Old Tang Book contains two volumes of Maijing, but by the early Song Dynasty this book was on the verge of oblivion. When Lin Dang and others were correcting medical books in the Song Dynasty, they discovered this book and deleted the redundant parts and filled in the gaps. The earlier version that survives today is the Guangqin Shutang engraving in the third year of Tianli. From the Ming and Qing dynasties to modern times, there were dozens of various engravings, typesetting editions, etc. Among them, the Qingshou Shange series of books is more influential. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were printed copies from the Commercial Press and photocopies from the People's Medical Publishing House, Shanghai Health Publishing House, and Shanghai Science and Technology Press.