[Review and prospects of medical history in Huizhou]

With the development of Huizhou studies and its medical history becoming a new growth area of Chinese historiography, the medical social history in Huizhou has been a focus in academic fields, and a series of research achievements have been reported. However, as far as the current research is concerned, some problems and deficiencies are still there, such as the lack of attention to the life of individuals; insufficient attention to the integration of "internal history" and "external history" of Xin'an medicine; and few comparative studies of medical history between Huizhou and other regions. In this sense, future research should be expected to focus on Huizhou medical social history, to present the daily medical world of Huizhou "people", to explore the core of Xin'an medical knowledge, and to understand the relationship between medicine and region by comparison.