[Actual image of "Heji Jufang" as quoted by "Youyouxinshu," "San'infang," "Jian'yifang" and others].
The first edition of "Heji Jufang" was published during the Northern Song Period and revised numerous times. This paper presents the results of the author's comparative study of "Heji Jufang" and contemporary medical books: 1. Prescriptions that were selected from many similar prescriptions were adopted for the pharmacopoeia. 2. Examples of a prescription for children that was revised into a general prescription for adults were found. 3. Examples of a prescription for which additional texts of indications were upgraded to formal texts of indications were found. Examples of the reverse were also found. This was thought to be an indication of the process used to produce the text of the indications. 4. Examples in which texts of different indications were put together using the word "Mataryo" were found. 5. After Xuhong had been published, Xutian pharmacopoeia was expanded mainly from "San'infang" and "Yijianfang". 6. Texts at the end of Chunyou pharmacopoeia were quoted from "Yijianfang". 7. Revision of "Heji Jufang" was thought to have been completed at the end of the Chunyou Era, or soon thereafter.
Oriental Medicine Research Center of the Kitasato Institute, 5-9-1 Shirokane, Minatoku, Tokyo 108-8642.
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Suzuki
D011307:Drug Prescriptions / Q000266:history; D049691:History, Medieval; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D010602:Pharmacopoeias as Topic / Q000266:history*