[11] However, according to researchers Yan Liang, Abdulbaset M. Salim, Wendy Wu, and Paul E. Kilgore, "it is far from certain that the sole author ... is Chao Yuanfang.
"[12] The Suishu jingji zhi (隋書經籍志), compiled between 641 and 656, identifies Wu Jingxian (吳景賢) as the author of the Zhubing yuanhou lun.
On the other hand, the Jiutangshu jingji zhi (旧唐书经籍志), compiled during the Later Jin Dynasty, claims that the text was written by Wu Jing (吴景).
[12] The Zhubing yuanhou lun is the oldest extant medical encyclopedia on disease aetiology and symptomatology in traditional Chinese medicine.
[14] From the early 8th century onwards,[8] it was introduced to the rest of the world and was extensively quoted in works like the earliest surviving Japanese medical text, the Ishinpō,[3][15] and Avicenna's Canon of Medicine.