Huang L
China Academy of TCM, Biejing.
Zhonghua Yi Shi Za Zhi. 1999 Jan;29(1):18-20.
Written in about the period of late Yuan to early Ming dynasties, Qiongyao's Magical Book is attributed to a Taoist who was also conversant with acupunture art. By investigation, it is found that there are, at least, three books carrying the same title of Qiongyao's Magical Book, including a 3 volume Qiongyao's Magical Book now lost; a 3 - volume Qiongyao's Magical Book of Discovery (also called The Acupuncture Classic of Qiongyao the Immortal printed in the Ming dynasty, which is entirely different from the previous one and is an apocrypha; and a 4 - volume Qiongyao's Magical Book printed in the Qing dynasty also called Qiongyao's Great Collections of Magical Books wiich is a mixture of authentic and apocryphal texts in which 2 medical books irrelevant to the original are attached to the end of volume 3, with supplements by later writers intermingled in other volumes.
《琼瑶神书》成书于元末明初时期，相传为一位精通针灸术的道士所著。经考证，至少有三本名为《琼瑶神书》的书籍，其中一本三卷本的《琼瑶神书》现已失传；一本三卷本的《琼瑶神书发现篇》（又称明代刊印的《琼瑶真人针灸经》，与前者完全不同，是伪书）；还有一本清代刊印的四卷本《琼瑶神书》，也叫《琼瑶神书大全》，是真伪杂糅的文本，在第三卷末尾附有两篇与原著无关的医学书籍，其他卷中还夹杂着后世作者的增补内容。
