The Newly Revised Materia Medica in Tang Dynasty, also known as Tang Materia Medica or Yinggong Materia Medica, has 54 volumes. It is divided into 25 volumes, 7 volumes and 20 volumes of Materia Medica. In this paper, 850 kinds of drugs are actually included to record the morphology and origin of drugs, as well as their functions and aliases, which provides a basic basis for future generations to distinguish drugs.

In the middle of the 7th century, due to the unification of the country, the economy of the Tang Dynasty recovered and developed rapidly. Moreover, due to the inward migration of northwest minorities, the development of communication and trade in the early Tang Dynasty, and the continuous import of western regions and Indian culture, the number and types of drugs in the Tang Dynasty continued to increase, enriching the content of pharmacology in China.

Compendium of Materia Medica, which was regarded as a treatment guide by doctors at that time, could not meet the needs of the situation at that time because of the shortcomings of Dow's compilation and the mistakes of Hou Liang 100 years. Therefore, it is necessary to summarize and sort out the drug knowledge to meet the needs of medical treatment. Su Jing, a medical scientist who worked in the imperial court at that time, deeply felt that it was very important to treat diseases with drugs, and specially proposed to the imperial court to compile a new special book on Chinese medicine.

At that time, the Tang court attached great importance to science and culture, and soon adopted this suggestion, appointing Wuji as Taiwei and leading more than 20 people to compile it, but the main figure was that it showed its strength.