我国现存最早的医学经典著作《黄帝内经》,是祖国医学理论体系的基础。有人在研究中医方剂学发展史时,根据《内经》详于理而略于方药这一点,认为战国以前的临床医疗是以针石为主,直到西汉初,才把方剂作为治病的主要手段。随着马王堆汉墓帛书《五十二病方》的出土,此说便站不住脚了。《五十二病方》以丰富的资料证明:在战国以前,方药便已与针石(书中只有砭石疗法,未见针法)同为治病的主要手段;并为方剂学的形成与发展写下了光辉的一页。《五十二病方》(以下简称《病方》)纂书年 China’s earliest medical classic “Yellow Emperor’s Internal Classic” is the basis of the medical theory system of the motherland. Some people are studying the development history of Chinese medicinal formulae, according to the “Neijing” in detail rather than prescription medicine, this point of view that before the Warring States clinical medicine is based on needle stone, until the Western Han Dynasty, before the prescription as the main means of treatment . With the unearthing of the fifty-two disease case of the Mawangdui Han Tomb, it would be untenable. The “Fifty-two Patients” provided abundant information to prove that before the Warring States Period, prescriptions had become the main means of treating diseases together with needle stones (only stone therapy in the book, no needle method); and the formation of prescription medicine and Development has written a brilliant page. The Fifty-two Disease Party (hereinafter referred to as “Sickness”)