"Four Medical Classics"

The Four Medical Classics is a Tibetan medical classic, completed at the end of the eighth century. The book title in Tibetan means the book consists of four parts, namely the Basics, Exposition and Argumentation, Secret Formulas, and Supplementary Medical Classics. Part one: 6 chapters (general knowledge of physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment); part two: 31 chapters (anatomy of the human body, causes of diseases, health care, medicine properties, diagnostic methods and treatment principle); part three: 92 chapters (diagnosis and methods of treatment for clinical diseases); part four: 28 chapters (diagnostic methods, such as diagnosis by feeling the pulse and checking the urine, compounding of prescriptions and their founctions, and external treatment).