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The original name of this book is Zhouzhou Jiucu, consisting of three volumes, written by Ge Hong in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and supplemented by Liang ?Tao Hongjing, and Jin Dynasty ?Yang Yongdao Add additional side. This book Zhouhou Beiji Fang has eight volumes in total. Its contents mainly include simple treatments for some common diseases and syndromes, including oral formula, external use, massage, moxibustion, bonesetting and other very practical contents. Although this book is titled "Behind the Elbow", it contains a lot of valuable medical historical materials and practical formula methods. It also contains many important inventions and discoveries in the history of medicine, which have an important enlightenment effect on today's medical practice.

The "smallpox" he described was introduced from outside and is not inherent in our country. It has important medical historical value.

The book also mentions various pestilence diseases such as ejaculation, sand lice, and glanders. Commentators believe that the so-called ejaculation is a description of a disease called schistosomiasis. While the description of sand louse is scrub typhus, some people think that this is the disease process of schistosomiasis. What's even more valuable is that the book also points out that this kind of sand louse burrows into the skin. If you use a needle to pick out bugs, it's just like scabies, which only move when the claws are exposed to the light. This proves that scabies was already known at that time. It uses the size and detection method of scabies to describe sand lice, which is very appropriate. In short, the book Zhouzhou Beiji Fang gives a detailed description of several pestilence diseases in ancient times and occupies an important position in the history of pestilence diseases in the world.

Zhouzhou Beiji Fang has a special section discussing the treatment of "venom caused by rabid dog bites". The book first recognizes the seriousness of rabies (also known as rabies) bites and points out its latent nature and course of the disease. About twenty methods have been proposed to treat rabies, including the method of "still killing the biting dog, taking the brain and treating it, so that it will not relapse." The valuable thing about this method is that it uses the brain tissue of the rabid dog to apply to the wound to prevent the onset of rabies. It is a budding idea of ??immunotherapy. The rabies toxin is a neurotropic virus that multiplies in large numbers in the brain tissue of rabies. Using this tissue to treat rabies was proposed under the influence of the idea of ??"fighting fire with fire", and it is also in line with the basic principles of modern immunotherapy.

Zhouzhou Beiji Fang Although these are simple and easy-to-obtain treatment methods, this work and the treatment ideas it promotes seem to be incompatible with the orthodox idea of ??"syndrome differentiation and treatment", so Some "orthodox" doctors of later generations consider it to be of little importance, or even unworthy of mention, and cannot be promoted to a high level. However, it is these simple and accessible treatments and formulas that contain valuable essence and should be taken seriously. For example, when using Sweet Wormwood to treat malaria, "sprinkle two liters of water, wring out the juice, and drink it all." This is also a precious conclusion gained from long-term experience. Modern research has proven that Sweet Wormwood contains Sweet Wormwood, which has a very obvious anti-malarial effect. It is a chemical component that is not heat-resistant. Therefore, although Chinese materia medica generally uses decoction, Ge Hong emphasizes the need to produce Take its juice. The isolation research of Sweet Wormwood factor led to an important discovery in the history of modern anti-malarial research (Research on Sweet Wormwood Anti-malarial, contained in Thirty Years Selected Papers of China Chinese Medicine Research Institute, Chinese Medicine Ancient Books Publishing House , 1985). Another example is the description of foot weakness in the book, which can be considered the earliest history of beriberi, especially the description of cardiac beriberi and the inclusion of sufficient vitamin B to treat beriberi.