Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c6.s2.t4.22

v1.c6.s2.t4.22

With 40 volumes and 1,104 categories in total, *Arcane Essentials from the Imperial Library* always probes into the causes and development of a disease and then recommends the appropriate prescriptions. It is based on *General Treatise on the Cause and Symptoms of Diseases* by Chao Yuanfang and *Essential Recipes for Emergent Use* by Sun Simiao and records a total of more than 6,000 effective prescriptions, all classified into proper categories and covering a wide range of areas. The book quotes lots of ancient classic prescriptions and writings by influential people in history "from the period of patron of agriculture all the way down to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the book almost contains everything that is valuable and precious to medical science". It collects an enormous number of ancient prescriptions with reasonable and unique interpretation and analysis, and compared with *Essential Recipes for Emergent Use* which is divided