[description]

Written by Wang Tao of Tang Dynasty in the eleventh year of Tianbao (752), this book is abbreviated as Waitai, also known as Waitai Miyao Fang.

Although this book is a medical prescription book, it is an important medical classic. The author has managed Hongwen Museum for a long time and has extensive access to a large number of ancient medical books. After ten years of cold and summer, he compiled this masterpiece. In the second year of Zhiping in the Northern Song Dynasty (1065), it was revised and published by the Medical Bookstore. It has been reprinted many times, and there are now more than ten minute editions. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, People's Medical Publishing House made photocopies twice.

Waitai Miyao collects dozens of medical works from the Tang Dynasty and before the Tang Dynasty. The book has 40 volumes, divided into 1104 categories, and contains more than 6000 medical prescriptions. Volumes 1 to 2 cover diseases caused by cold; Volumes 3 to 6 discuss diseases caused by cold, warm disease, malaria, cholera, etc.; Volumes 7 to 20 deal with internal diseases; Volumes 21 to 22 deal with diseases of the eyes, ears, nose, and teeth; Volumes 23-24 discuss galls and Yongju; Volumes 25-27 deal with dysentery diseases; Volumes 28-30 deal with attack of noxious factor, incised wound, malignant sores, etc. Volumes 31-32 discuss the collection of medicinal herbs , pill powder and facial diseases; Volumes 33-34 discuss women's diseases; Volumes 35-36 deal with children's diseases; Volumes 37-38 discuss milk stones; Volumes 39-40 contain nose moxibustion.

The whole book discusses the posterior aspect first. The discussion is mostly quoted from Zhubing Yuanhou Lun? and Shanghan Lun?, and the medical prescriptions are compiled from Qianjin Fang? > There are quite a few. For each selected book, the title and volume of the original book must be specified under each entry. This method of quoting books and noting the volume was pioneered by Wang in the compilation of medical literature. The book draws on various prescriptions and has an outstanding effect in preserving ancient medical literature. Such as Nearly effective prescription, Gujin Luyanfang, Deleted traditional prescription, Shenshi prescription, Xiaopin Fang, Guzhengbing Jiufang, etc., many of which have been scattered and lost to date, are preserved thanks to this book. Although it is a compilation, its contribution to the preservation of ancient Bi medical prescriptions has made a great contribution to the medicine of the motherland.