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The abbreviation of this book is Shenghui Fang, 100 volumes, compiled by Wang Huai-yin and others in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the third year of Taiping and Xingguo's reign (978), Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty ordered all the imperial doctors of the Imperial Academy of Medicine to present prescriptions based on their family experience. A total of more than 10,000 prescriptions were obtained, plus more than 1,000 prescriptions based on experience collected by Taizong himself before he ascended the throne. Wang Huai-yin, the Hanlin medical officer, and deputy envoys Wang You, Zheng Qi (first author Zheng Yan), medical officer Chen Zhaoyu and others were ordered to "participate in the compilation". Wang Huai-yin and others carefully organized and classified many medical prescriptions, and divided them into 1670 categories according to disease syndromes. Each category was preceded by the relevant theory of Chao Yuan-fang Zhubing Yuanhou Lun. The prescriptions and medicines are listed in order, and the prescriptions are unified based on the evidence, and the evidence is unified based on the theory. The first part of the book also details the methods of diagnosing the pulse and distinguishing the deficiency and excess of yin-yang, and lists the prescriptions in order, the basic rules of medication, and the principles, methods, prescriptions, and medicines. It comprehensively and systematically reflects the level of medical development before the early Northern Song Dynasty. Since each department classifies the etiology, pathology, syndromes, taboos of formulas, and dosage of drugs in each department, the prescriptions are designed according to the syndrome, and the drugs are administered according to the prescriptions. The clinical application is quite convenient and practical. The book contains 16834 prescriptions. , the content covers five zang-organs diseases, internal and external diseases, bone injuries, metal wounds, fetuses, women, children, vermilion pills, food treatment, tonics, acupuncture and moxibustion, etc. The compilation of this large-scale Fangshu took fourteen years and was not completed until the third year of Chunhua (992).

The earliest version of this book was published in May of the third year of Chunhua, which has been lost for a long time. The typesetting version published by People's Medical Publishing House in 1959 was compiled based on four manuscripts. Because the volume of this book was too large to be easily circulated, He Xipeng of Fujian Province in the mid-Northern Song Dynasty once excerpted the contents of this book and compiled it into 60 volumes of Selected Prescriptions of Shenghui, containing 6096 prescriptions. This book has been lost today.