China's earliest existing state pharmacopoeia "new fix materia"

    The new fix materia "is in the SuJing etc of the tang dynasty in 659 written more than 20 people in government. The first pharmacopoeia written It is the earliest than Europe as pizza pharmacopoeia (fiorentina) published in 1498, 2535 839 years earlier than in the world medical history issued by the famous die Meistersinger pharmacopoeia than Russia in early 876 first state pharmacopoeia (written) early in 1778, so has the world in 1,119 first pharmacopoeia said.

    The original book is examination paper, 13 volumes this. In addition to sequence exception, with jade, plants, insects, fish, birds and beasts MiGu liberalization, classified camshaft, altogether collected drugs, and actual shape attention drugs. Under the edict was once, consult the fractal color, caricatured as all drugs also add have graphics, and that by the graph. The new practice of medicine chart and herbal "by the length of numerous rich graph, the text content over.

    In contents, the new fix materia "is also very outstanding. Due to the tang dynasty was in heyday, very active chinese-foreign economic and cultural exchange, many foreign drug? Through trade entering the country, like benzoin, borneol, pepper, 诃子, turmeric, fennel, ferulic etc. Opium is one thing by Persian area when drugs into the central plains.

    Because the new fix materia "contents abundant, so once was published, immediately, the drought spread scattered by Japan to China was introduced to Japan, passed SengTu impact, medical later spread to north Korea and other countries.

     This book is not only spread widely and spread time also long. Since the beginning in 659, until the middle of the 10th century, this song dynasty) (more than 300 years, Japan and China's physicians are essential to declare it textbooks.