Provides and overview that helps healers in the Alchemy Commission to reference medical texts.

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Liu Hua's Medical Compendium
This book, written by the medical scientist Liu Hua, is widely recognized as the foundation of the Xianzhou Alliance's modern medicine. Liu Hua was a Vidyadhara from the Xianzhou Fanghu. He was a Pearlkeeper that supported the Fanghu high elder for the first three hundred years of his life, and became the head healer that closely served the Fanghu high elder for the last four hundred.

Through his long years of clinical practice and research, Liu Hua had acutely realized the Xianzhou medical science's problem at that time. The Xianzhou's tradition of preserving the past meant significant amounts of medical practice relied on experience instead of science. For the Xianzhou natives of the time, their millennia of medical experience was far more reliable than scientific theories written on paper.

Liu Hua therefore authored this Liu Hua's Medical Compendium in the hopes of re-organizing and better explaining the principles of Xianzhou medical science using more scientific methods of inquiry.

The book did not gain much attention at the time of its publication. It was not until ninety-three years after Liu Hua's hatching rebirth that a group of young Alchemy Commission members on the Luofu formed an innovative organization in the Cold Springs delve, later named “Cold Springs Sect” by posterity. The Cold Springs Sect re-discovered how Liu Hua's Medical Compendium had a vision before its time and offered critical value to the field of medicine, and regarded the book the standard for medicine.

Later, the Cold Spring Sect's innovative thoughts were gradually acknowledged by the various groups in the Alliance, and Liu Hua's Medical Compendium also finally gained the importance it deserves.

Key Tenets of Long-Life
As the earliest contact point of the Ambrosial Arbor, the healers of the Luofu's Alchemy Commission have a deeper understanding of the core principles, biology, anatomy, and the process of conversion of long-life species than healers on the other Xianzhou ships do.

Everyone knows the author of Key Tenets of Long-Life is the famous healer Changsang from the Theophany Era. Some medical historians share the belief that this book was based on Changsang's writings, and only emerged in its current form after repeated modifications and edits by those who came later. For example, many records about the civilizations of long-life species were only discovered after the Theophany Era.

Key Tenets of Long-Life lists the physiological characteristics of twenty-six long-life species, all of which are further supported by anatomical and genetic evidence. In particular, the study of the Xianzhou natives' physiology has a profound impact on the establishment of the relevant regulations in the Ten-Lords Commission.

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Achievements in Alchemy
This book, compiled by the Zhuming Alchemy Commission, is a comprehensive summary of alchemical prescriptions and their smelting and refinement techniques. It is also an alchemy textbook used in the academy.

The crux of alchemy lies in synthesis and transformation. During the period before the Xianzhou set sail, alchemy was already divided into the medical and artifex branches, and the art was considered the most important cultural inheritance retained from the Primeval Imperium. In the era of the Ambrosial Arbor, medical alchemy progressed even further by leaps and bounds, illustrating the wonders of life across all its changes.

Following the Flaming Catastrophe War, many alchemical prescriptions in the Achievements in Alchemy were destroyed because of the Ambrosial Arbor and could never be restored. Nevertheless, a vast number of remedies recorded in the book can still be applied. For example, the revitalization pellet that enhances the self-healing capabilities of long-life species and the gallantry infusion that strengthens muscles and increases muscle power are military prescriptions still used even to this day.

Compendium of Remedies
This book is compiled by Dan Shu, the chief alchemist of the Luofu Alchemy Commissiono. Dan Shu's team extensively researched almost all the materia medica from the Theophany Era to the present, carefully selecting and summarizing a total of 39,500 medicinal prescriptions. About 3,726 of them were invented by Dan Shu and her team through medical practice.

The Compendium of Remedies is widely recognized as the pinnacle of pharmacological achievements in Xianzhou's 8,000-year history. The book categorizes all the prescriptions into 28 sections based no the ailments they treat. Among them, the volumes of the Vasculature Section, the Orthopedic Section, and the Transfiguration Section are the most complete and detailed. The Gourd-Born Section and the Hatching-Born Section encompass the medical techniques of the foxians and Vidyadhara. The Mara Section is the most impressive, as it compiles the latest research findings on the study of mara-struck conditions over the past few centuries. After this book was published, it immediately became a must-have guidebook for every alchemist of the Alchemy Commission. It's also designated as the official textbook for all related disciplines in the academy.

Due to various reasons, the Alchemy Commission has irrevocably gone downhill. Against the historical backdrop of the Alchemy Commission, the birth of the Compendium of Remedies is undoubtedly a boost of confidence that encourages the Alchemy Commission to start exploring the value and meaning of its existence in modern society again.

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The Comprehensive Handbook of Exotic Knowledge
On a literal level, “Exotic Knowledge” could be construed to mean “knowledge from outworlders.” However, at the height of the Alchemy Commission, the Alliance was almost completely dependent on the progress of medical science. Therefore, the “Exotic Knowledge” in The Comprehensive Handbook of Exotic Knowledge specifically refers to “medical science from outworlders.” This book is also the first work in the history of the Alliance that systematically presented the medical science of foreign civilizations.

The Comprehensive Handbook of Exotic Knowledge occupies an important place in the history of the Xianzhou civilization's contact with the outside world. It could even be said that the book had profoundly influenced the direction of the Xianzhou civilization's development, shaping the Alliance into what it is today.

The author of this book is unknown. It is thought to be a collective work from the Alchemy Commission staff of the Xianzhou Yuque and Yaoqing. According to The Chronicles of the Yuque, the editing of this book was a part of the “Exotic Knowledge Revival Movement” spearheaded by Dieyu, the Cauldron Master of the Yuque's Alchemy Commission at the time. It is commonly thought that Dieyu also directly led the editing of The Comprehensive Handbook of Exotic Knowledge.

When published, The Comprehensive Handbook of Exotic Knowledge was split into three volumes according to civilization clusters, with four chapters in each volume. he first volume was “The IPC Volume,” the second was “The Guild Volume,” and the third was “The Abomination Volume.” The third volume encountered significant push back toward publication. Even though Dieyu overcame publicly scrutiny, the third volume was only made available seventy years after the first two had been published.

Time proved that “The Abomination Volume” provided a very positive contribution to the development of the Xianzhou's medical sciences. After all, both the IPC and the Guild are civilizations dominated by short-life species, and the residents within their domains have drastically different anatomies and physiology to long-life species. Though the Alliance could learn from their scientific thought processes and medical technologies, there was only so much to gain from them.

Meanwhile, the topic of investigation for “The Abomination Volume” are the Denizens of Abundance, long-life species just like the Xianzhou residents. Wingweavers and borisin have always had their own unique medical science systems, but the Xianzhou native habitually looked down upon these abominations' technical achievements in the millennia prior. No, we are well aware of the kind of danger that lurks in our arrogance and spite toward enemies. Howeover, for the Xianzhou natives of the time, publishing a work such as “The Abomination Volume” that humbly learned from our enemies was practically tantamount to treason.

Thankfully, Dieyu was able to withstand pressure and could rid the entire Alliance of the shackles of arrogance and spite, thus obtaining more useful knowledge.

Grand Encyclopedia of Xianzhou — Chapter on Medical Sciences
This book was authored by Izumitamagawa bint Amatullah from the IPC, who was an expert on the study of the Xianzhou, a natural scientist, and a writer.

In the year 7032, 23-year-ld Izumitamagawa arrived at the Xianzhou Zhuming as a trade specialist, and resided there as a visitor for the rest of her life. She realized that the cosmos' knowledge of the Xianzhou Alliance at the time was mostly based on incomplete stories or unfounded rumors. Therefore, she resolved to author an epic work that would comprehensively present the Xianzhou civilization to foreigners. That was how, forty years later, the Grand Encyclopedia of Xianzhou was born.

The Chapter on Medical Sciences features prominently in this epic work, taking up almost one-third of the pages. In the Chapter on Medical Sciences, Izumitamagawa used the IPC's medical system to classify all the medical and pharmacological works that could be found in the entire Xianzhou Alliance, as well as recounting their histories and explaining their principles.

While the Chapter on Medical Sciences is only an amateur piece of work when compared against professional pharamcopoeias and medical textbooks, this publication still managed to achieve Izumitamagawa's original goal of letting every traveler understand the Xianzhou's medical sciences.

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