Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang is a formula created by Zhang Zhongjing.

These four herbs are a Chinese herbal formula, a very classic and famous formula in China's prescription science, "Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang", from the "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid and Cold" compiled by Zhang Zhongjing, an Eastern Han Dynasty medical practitioner who was known as the Sage of Medicine in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the original formula was named "Ma Xing Gan Shi Tang".

Zhang Zhongjing (formerly known as Zhang Ji, circa 150 to 154 AD - circa 215 to 219 AD), courtesy name Zhongjing, was a native of Nanyang Niyang County (present-day Zhangzhai Village, Rangdong Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province, China) in the Eastern Han Dynasty. He was a renowned medical practitioner at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was honored as a Sage of Healing, and one of the most outstanding medical practitioners in Chinese history.

Zhang Zhongjing, who aspired to medicine because of his reverence for Bian Magpie, studied under Zhang Bozu. He detested officialdom and sympathized with the people suffering from epidemics. He traveled all over the world to practice medicine, carefully studied typhoid diseases, and read a lot of books. After decades of collecting, organizing and researching, he wrote the heirloom masterpiece "Treatise on Typhoid and Cold Miscellaneous Diseases," which established the six-meridian syndrome diagnosis and treatment, and became a classic work necessary for the study of Chinese medicine for the next generation.

Works:

1, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" (lost, one of the four classics of traditional Chinese medicine), the book comprehensively elaborated on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the principles of treatment of disease, is the earliest theoretical linkage between the practical clinical diagnosis and treatment of the specialized books in China.

2, "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", the Jin Dynasty physician Wang Shuhe according to their own search for the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Miscellaneous Diseases" of the typhoid part of the anecdotal collation and become.

3, the "Golden Chamber", the Song Dynasty Wang Su, Lin Yi, Sun Qi and others in the chance to find the "typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases" remnants of the brief, the part of the miscellaneous diseases will be organized into a book, renamed the "Golden Chamber" published in the world.