Huang De: publicly available information about this author is currently limited, and biographical details such as nationality and dates of birth and death have not been clearly recorded and await further verification. According to the holdings in our database, Huang De has only one work, Selected Secret and Effective Prescriptions from Huang De's Clinical Practice, which is classified under Medicine and Health and Health. The words "clinical practice" and "secret and effective prescriptions" in the title indicate that the book focuses on clinical practice and gathers effective formulas and medication experience accumulated by the author in diagnosis and treatment, serving TCM clinicians and readers interested in traditional medicine. Due to the lack of further background material, Huang De's academic origins, mentorship, and medical career cannot be confirmed, and the writing style can only be inferred from the subject matter of this book—practical, emphasizing the correspondence between formulas and patterns and the summary of experience. Overall, Huang De is known for one clinical formulary, and the influence lies mainly in the organization and dissemination of traditional Chinese formula and clinical experience; a fuller assessment must await the disclosure of more materials.
