Liu Biao is an author about whom little public information is available. Reliable details of his life, including his nationality, birth and death dates, and educational background, cannot be confirmed. One work by him is held in the collection, The Palm and Illness, which is classified under medicine and health and general health. It is a popular reader that uses the palm as a starting point for discussing illness and health. Judging from the subject matter, the author is concerned with the connection between an easily observed part of the body and a person's state of health, and he writes for general readers in a style that is likely accessible and practical rather than a specialized medical treatise. Because further verifiable information about his experience and writings is lacking, it is difficult to assess his full writing style or scholarly influence; the value of his work lies mainly in offering the public a concrete and approachable angle for reading about health.
