中医治疗体系是理法方药、辨证施治,但另一途径即验方、秘方、单方。后者是医生在临床实践中不断积累,反复实践验证,对某些疾病甚至疑难病症,取得一定疗效,或者疗效不错,以致相传流布,如此记载下来的称为验方。若秘而不宣,形成个人(独家)所有,或将某几种药味秘而不传的称为秘方。常以非常简单的一味药,有时或者用二、三味药,用起来简捷明白,疗效显著,而流传下来的,称为单方。验方在公开发表时实际也包括了某些秘方与单方。验方类的书在清代较多,如清咸丰年间鲍相璈编辑的《验方新编》,其后张绍棠进行增辑,1934年梅启照辑《梅氏验方新编》,之后又有《验方辑要》清·赵诚,《验方备 The treatment system of traditional Chinese medicine is a prescription method and syndrome differentiation treatment, but another method is prescription, secret recipe, and unilateral treatment. The latter is the accumulation of doctors in clinical practice, repeated practice verification, for certain diseases or even difficult diseases, to obtain a certain effect, or a good effect, so that the spread of the flow, so recorded is called prescription. If the secret is not declared, all individuals (exclusive) will be formed, or some secretive drugs will be secretive but not transmitted. Often with a very simple blindly medicine, sometimes with two or three flavors of medicine, use it simple and clear, significant effect, and passed down, known as unilateral. The prosecution actually included certain secret recipes and unilateral statements when it was published. The books of the type of prescription were more in the Qing Dynasty, such as the “new edition of the prescription” edited by Bao Xiangjun during the Qing Xianfeng years, followed by Zhang Shaoluo’s Supplementary Collection, Mei Qizhao’s New Collection of Meishi’s Recipe in 1934, and later the “Prescription” series. To “Qing Zhao Cheng,”