TCM Factoid
Wi Xiao Liang Fang, Wonderful Well-tried Recipes, a book in 69 volumes with its authorship ascribed to Dong Su and Fang Xian.
It was published in 1470.
According to the principles of treatment of different diseases, it divides recipes into 64 families, such as wind, cold, heat, etc., which are subdivided into smaller groups.
It lists more than 7,000 recipes, most of which are passed down from the Song and Ming Dynasties, and at the same time states the methods of needling and bone-setting.
