Which of Tuệ Tĩnh's books uses verse to present medical and pharmaceutical principles?
The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa.
In 1717, the Liễu Chàng Bookstore in Hà Nội presented a set of medical books by Tuệ Tĩnh to Lord Trịnh Cương, who read the books and and found them valuable. He asked the mandarins in the Health Department to review them and then gave the series the name The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa. He had copies printed and distributed them throughout the country.
The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa contain Tuệ Tĩnh's work on medical and pharmaceutical principles and demonstrate a profound and creative analysis of medical problems. They include pulse-examining diagnoses, analysis of disease mechanisms, and preparation and use of medicines. Principle of Asian medicine are adapted to the Vietnamese people and climate. Tuệ Tĩnh wrote many of the books in popular verse, making the remedies easy to remember. The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa has been a companion to many generations of Vietnamese physicians.
With the motto of "Vietnamese medicine for Vietnamese people", the books emphasis the advantages of Vietnamese medicine and encouraged successive generation of Vietnamese physicians to free themselves from dependence on Chinese medicine and to research and use their own traditional Southern Medicine (thuốc nam) for disease prevention and therapy.
In 1717, the Liễu Chàng Bookstore in Hà Nội presented a set of medical books by Tuệ Tĩnh to Lord Trịnh Cương, who read the books and and found them valuable. He asked the mandarins in the Health Department to review them and then gave the series the name The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa. He had copies printed and distributed them throughout the country.
The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa contain Tuệ Tĩnh's work on medical and pharmaceutical principles and demonstrate a profound and creative analysis of medical problems. They include pulse-examining diagnoses, analysis of disease mechanisms, and preparation and use of medicines. Principle of Asian medicine are adapted to the Vietnamese people and climate. Tuệ Tĩnh wrote many of the books in popular verse, making the remedies easy to remember. The Medical Books of Master Hồng Nghĩa has been a companion to many generations of Vietnamese physicians.
With the motto of "Vietnamese medicine for Vietnamese people", the books emphasis the advantages of Vietnamese medicine and encouraged successive generation of Vietnamese physicians to free themselves from dependence on Chinese medicine and to research and use their own traditional Southern Medicine (thuốc nam) for disease prevention and therapy.
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