Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.13

v1.c6.s2.t4.13

After Sun Simiao compiled *Valuable Prescriptions for Emergency* in the third year of Yonghui Period of Emperor Gao in the Tang Dynasty (652 CE), he was worried about omissions, so he collected secret prescriptions for another 30 years, including *Treatise on Febrile Diseases* of Zhang Zhongjing, combined clinical experience of dozens of years and compiled *Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions*. The two books were an excellent match like flying birds so that readers could cure diseases, keep healthy and benefit greatly. *Supplement to Valuable Prescriptions* also had 30 volumes, supplemented over 2,000 ancient prescriptions which weren’t collected in *Valuable Prescriptions for Emergency*. The part of *Medicine Record* in the preface of the book collected over 800 medicines and greatly enriched materia medica knowledge in the Tang Dynasty.