[The compilation, content and dissemination of Jian Yao Ji Zhong Fang].

Jian Yao Ji Zhong Fang(Brief collectanea of prescriptions which are benefit to common people)《》 was the 4th medical formulary promulgated by the Song government. Zhou Ying, the medical officer of the Hanlin Academy, was called to compile this book.The content of it mainly came from Tai Ping Sheng Hui Fang, compiled by Wang Huaiyin under the order of the Emperor, and the collection of various effective prescriptions. But this book was lost in the late Ming Dynasty. The primary edition of Jian Yao Ji Zhong Fang was published in the third year of Huangyou(1051 AD). It was not only given to the counties by the Song government at that time, but also effectively handed down and applied in Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Besides, this book has been spread to such places as Korea and Japan. The extant content of Jian Yao Ji Zhong Fang was mainly preserved in such medical books as The classified collection of medical prescriptions 《의방유쥐》》 collected by Kim Ye-mong in Korea; Da Guan Jing Shi Zheng Lei Beiji Bencao《》originally edited by medical expert Tang Shenwei、proofread and supplemented by Ai Sheng; Chong Xiu Zheng He Jing Shi Zheng Lei Bei Yong Ben Cao 《》originally edited by Tang Shenwei、proofread and supplemented by Cao Xiaozhong, revised and enlarged by Zhang Cunhui; Mananpou《》edited by Kajiwara Senzen; Zatsubyou kouyou《》 edited by Tanba Motokata. It contained various categories of symptoms and signs, like liver, heart, spleen, lung, kidney, sanjiao, stroke, defecation and children, as well as hundreds of therapeutic prescriptions to heal different kinds of internal and surgical diseases and plague.