The Jiayi jing is considered, in China, as the most important ancient work on acupuncture. Taking up many lost texts, HUANGFU MI, in the 3rd century AD, under the Han dynasty, ordered and classified the essential knowledge of the time on the theory of Chinese medicine and acupuncture therapy. The French translation presented here has been enriched with many comments and notes, both ancient and modern, in order to allow a better understanding of the text.

A second volume includes several indexes (works and authors cited, acupuncture points, Chinese terms, French terms) as well as the original Chinese text.

The set comprises two volumes sold together: volume 1 carries the translated and annotated text, volume 2 gathers the indexes of works, points and terms, along with the Chinese text.