Interpretation of Terms in Huangdi Neijing

Huangdi Neijing is divided into Lingshu and Suwen, which is the earliest medical classic in China. One of the four classic works of traditional medicine, the other three parts are Difficult Classics, Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Shennong Herbal Classics.

Huangdi Neijing is a comprehensive medical work, which establishes the theories of Yin and Yang, five elements, pulse condition, Tibetan image, meridians, etiology, pathogenesis, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, health preservation and luck.

Discussing medicine in a holistic view presents a "holistic medical model" of nature, biology, psychology and society (according to the research of modern scholars, it is considered that the traces of Huang family in this edition are invaded by Taoist priests in Sui and Tang Dynasties). Its basic material comes from the long-term observation of life phenomena in ancient China, a lot of clinical practice and simple anatomical knowledge.

Huangdi Neijing laid the foundation of human physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment. It is a medical work with great influence in China and is called the medical ancestor.

The so-called "medical classics" is a book that expounds medical theories such as human physiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Because of its importance, it is called Beijing. The ancients called the important books that had certain rules and generally had to be studied "Jing", such as the Six Confucian Classics, Lao Zi's Tao Te Ching and the simple "Three-character Classic".

The reason why it is called "Neijing" is not that "Yin and Yang of the five internal organs are called" internal "in Wu Kun's Su Wen Zhu and Wang Jiu's Neijing Jing Lun He", nor that "the internal is the way to deal with the world" in Zhang Jiebin's Jing Lei, but just opposite to "external".

This is similar to Hanshu, Hanshu, Chunqiu, Chunqiu, Zhuangzi's Inner Chapter, Han Feizi's Hidden Inside and Waizang, except that Huangdi Waijing and Bai's classics have been lost.