{"id":6328,"date":"2019-11-12T22:50:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/about-chinese-doctors-of-lasting-fame-brief-introduction-zhong-guo-gu-yi-bian-que\/"},"modified":"2019-11-12T22:50:02","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T22:50:02","slug":"about-chinese-doctors-of-lasting-fame-brief-introduction-zhong-guo-gu-yi-bian-que","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/th\/about-chinese-doctors-of-lasting-fame-brief-introduction-zhong-guo-gu-yi-bian-que\/","title":{"rendered":"About Chinese Doctors of Lasting Fame-Brief Introduction \u4e2d\u56fd\u53e4\u533b – \u6241\u9e4a"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bian Que – click and find more<\/p>\n

The Bian Que(\u6241\u9e4aBi\u01cen Què) , who lived in Qi State at the start of the Warring States period , learned with diligence and formally became apprentice to Master Chang Sang , an eminent(an eminent person is well-known and respected, especially because they are good at their profession) doctor of the day. He had an open mind and acquired a wide scope of the techniques co<\/em>ncerned , notably pulse acquired a wide scope of the techniques co<\/em>ncerned , notably pulse feeling . He used to travel around the different kingdoms and formulated a set of diagnostic methods (four procedures : observation , hearing , interrogation and pulse feeling) , making a great co<\/em>ntribution to Chinese medicine . These methods are still followed by the modern Chinese doctors . He cured his patients quickly so he was very famous . In the Zhao Kingdom someone attributed to him the name of Bian Que , a legendary famous doctor in the reign of the Yellow Emperor . People remembered him by this attributed name , but forgot his real name.<\/p>\n

Hua Tuo – click and find more<\/p>\n

Hua Tuo(\u534e\u4f57Huà Tuó) , born in Qiao County (modern Bozhou of Anhui province) of Pei prefecture in the Eastern Han Dynasty . He was good at all aspects of medicine , particularly at surgical operations . He was venerated by the later generations as the “Holy Surgeon” and the “Founder of Surgery” . As a youth he read widely and traveled in places around Xuzhou . So he was versed in various Chinese classic books and learned a<\/em>bout hygiene . He refused the recommendation by high officials , but decided to become a doctor to cure the diseases of the common people . He practised medicine in the present Anhui , Jiangsu , Shangdong , and Henan provinces , and was revered by the masses . When Cao Cao , the prime minister of the Eastern Han , suffered from acute headache , he summo<\/em>ned Hua Tuo , who treated him with an acupuncture needle and the pain ceased immediately . Cao asked Hua Tuo to stay with him and serve him exclusively , but he was unwilling to serve him alone . He returned home under a pretext and did not come back to Cao Cao . Outraged , Cao caused Hua Tuo to be killed .<\/p>\n

Hua Tuo’s greatest achievement was in surgery . He invented the anesthetic herb solution , which was a general anesthetic . The procedure he took was as follows : At first the patient was told to swallow the anesthetic solution along with wine ; when the patient lost his sense as a drunken person , he cut open the patient’s abdomen . If he found a tumor he cut it off . If it was an impaired intestine or stomach , he cut off the impaired part , cleaned the part , sewed up the part and applied on the part an ointment . a<\/em>bout a week later it would heal up , and a<\/em>bout a mo<\/em>nth later the patient would recover fully . Hua Tuo invented general anesthesia in the second or third century A.D. , earlier by more than 1,600 years than when the Western surgeons used ether or nitrous oxide to effect general anesthesia . He was not o<\/em>nly the first surgeon in China but also the first surgeon in the world to perform an abdomen operation with general anesthesia.\u3000<\/p>\n

Wang Shuhe – click and find more<\/p>\n

Born of a noble family in Gaoqing County in the Western Jin Dynasty, Wang Shuhe was well educated in his youth . He took interest in medicine under the influence of Wei Xun , a disciple of Zhang Zho<\/em>ngjing (the author of the “Treatment of Typhoid”) . He studied famous medical works and researched on diseases , followed the classics , but not stuck to the classics . He co<\/em>nsulted veteran doctors and learned from them . His medical skills improved and he became famous . In 208 A.D. when Cao Cao led an army doctor . Finally he was promoted to the position of the chief doctor . He was versed in classic recipes and in feeling pulse . His best co<\/em>ntribution to Chinese medicine was his work , the “Canon of Pulse” , the pio<\/em>neering work of the kind.<\/p>\n

Sun Simiao – click and find more<\/p>\n

The preeminent pharmacist in the Tang Dynasty Sun Simiao(\u5b59\u601d\u9088S\u016bn S\u012bmi\u01ceo) was highly gifted . He could read a 1,000-character essay daily at the age of seven , and was versed in all classics at the age of twenty . He was known as a child prodigy . As he was weak and sick in his youth , his family had to spent all the property to pay for doctors and medicines for him .Hence , he made up his mind to study medicine to cure sick people . He was so studious that he was versed in medicine even when he was young , and patients flocked to him from near and far . He studied diligently the ancient classics on medicine , such as “Plain Queries” , “Crux of Medicine” , “Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion”, “Canon of Medical Herbs”, “Treatment of Typhoid” , “Canon of Pulse”. He did not “stop studying even when he got old .” He also studied foreign medicine at the time , such as the Indian medicine . Sun Simiao had a high proficiency in medicine . But in “the vast ocean of the classics and recipes” , it was difficult to retrieve a recipe for an acute disease , so he was resolved to compile a medical work to make the retrie<\/em>val easy . After decades of hard work , he completed in 652 A. D. his masterpiece “essential Recipes in Emergency” . After he died he was ho<\/em>nored as “Pharmaceutical King” and Mount Wutai wher he stayed was renamed Mount Pharmaceutical King . On the mount , a memorial temple and his statue were built in ho<\/em>nor of his great co<\/em>ntributions and his lofty personality.<\/p>\n

Li Shizhen – click and find more<\/p>\n

Li Shizhen(\u674e\u65f6\u73cdL\u01d0 Shízh\u0113n), born in Qi Zhou (modern Qichun county of Hubei province) in the Ming Dynasty , was preeminent pharmacist in China and the world . He wrote the famous pharmaceutical encyclopedia , “Syllabus of Medical Herbs” . Born into a medical family , Li aspired to take up the medical profession a his elders . But at that time medical practitio<\/em>ners had a low social status and the Li family was often bullied by officials .His father decided to let the son be a scholar to take part in the imperial service examination . However , Li failed in the imperial service examinations few times. So, he begged his father to permit him to study medicine exclusively . In his thirties Li was a renowned doctor locally .At the age of thrity five ,he began to compile the “Syllabus of Medical Herbs.” In order to know clearly the shapes , properties and effects of herbs he carried a basket on his back and traveled to different places with his son and a disciple named Pang Kuang . They trekked through countless wild mountains and deep valleys north and south of the Yangtze River . Three times he changed his manus<\/em>cript . After twenty seven years of painstaking efforts , Li Shizhen finally completed his pharmaceutical masterpiece in 1578 . It was not o<\/em>nly a great co<\/em>ntribution to Chinese pharmacology , but also had a far-reaching influence on the development of world pharmacology , botany ,zoology , mineralogy and chemistry.<\/p>\n

Wang Qingren – click and find more<\/p>\n

Among the many famous doctors in the Qing Dynasty. Wang Qingren(\u738b\u6e05\u4efbWáng Q\u012bngrèn) was a creative medical practitio<\/em>ner . He attached great im<\/em>portance to human body anatomy . He observed the corpses and drew illustrations himself . He was also excellent clinically . He devised a series of recipes for enriching vital energy and invigorating blood circulation . He wrote the “Corrections in Medicine.” The book co<\/em>ntained more than 30,000 words and 25 illustrations and charts , and also included thirty-one recipes of his own device . The book had two volumes . The first volume gave an account of his postmortem observations and corrected certain mistakes of the ancient doctors with regard to anatomy of viscera and physiological functions . He explained his medical viewpoints : “the prerequisite of clinical practice is to understand the viscera ” , and “the key to make a cure is to fine out the co<\/em>nditions of vital energy and blood.” The second volume explained his clinical theories ba<\/em>sed on his viewpoint and his clinical experiences for applying these theories to treat over fifty diseases such as hemiplegia , facial paralysis , infantile polio ,vomiting(vomit is partly digested food and drink that has come back up from someone’s stomach and out through their mouth), convulsion, chickenpox, sterility , difficult labor , rheumatism , insanity , epilepsy , etc ., recommending his recipes for invigorating blood circulation and eliminating blood stasis . Although titled “Corrections in Medicine” the book was essentially a<\/em>bout invigorating blood circulation and the treatment of blood stasis.
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