Essential Readings in TCM Clinical Practice Series - Secretly Transmitted Treatise on Ophthalmology (Dragon and Wood Theory)

Author: Compiled by: Jie Chuanhong
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Publishing Date: 2006-08-11
Features: This book is one of the earliest extant ophthalmology in China, renowned as early as the Tang Dynasty. Bai Juyi, in his poem about eye diseases, mentioned the "Dragon Tree Theory" and the "Cassia Seed Pill" for treating cataracts. Therefore, the book was completed no later than the 7th century. It was long regarded as a in medical education in China, guiding the development of ophthalmology for over a thousand years across the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties, playing a significant role. It also provided many insights and methods for the inheritance and innovation of modern traditional Chinese medicine ophthalmology, making it an indispensable important clinical reference book.