What are the famous medical doctors in ancient China?

1. Hua Tuo (ca. 145 AD - 208 AD)

Hua Tuo (ca. 145 AD - 208 AD)

Hua Tuo (ca. 145 AD - 208 AD)

Hua Tuo (ca. 145 AD - 208 AD)

Hua Tuo (ca. 145 AD - 208 AD)

Hua Tuo, with Dong Feng and Zhang Zhongjing, was known as the "Three Divine Physicians of Jian'an".

Hua Tuo was known as one of the "Three Divine Physicians of Jian'an" together with Dong Feng and Zhang Zhongjing. As a young man, he traveled and studied abroad, practicing medicine in Anhui, Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, etc. He studied medicine without pursuing a career. His medical skills are comprehensive, especially good at surgery, skilled in surgery. He was also proficient in internal medicine, gynecology, pediatrics, and acupuncture and moxibustion. In his later years, he was suspected by Cao Cao and was tortured to death in prison.

Hua Tuo was known as the "Sage of Surgery" and the "Ancestor of Surgery". He was also known as "Hua Tuo the Reincarnation" and "Yuanhua the Rebirth" for his outstanding medical skills.

2. Zhang Zhongjing (ca. 150-154 A.D. - ca. 215-219 A.D.)

Named Zhongjing, he was a native of Nanyang Niyang County in the Eastern Han Dynasty (present-day Zhangzhai Village, Rangdong Town, Dengzhou City, Henan Province). He was a famous medical doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was honored as the Sage of Medicine by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing collected a wide range of medical prescriptions and wrote the legendary masterpiece "Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of Typhoid Fever". It establishes the principle of diagnosis and treatment, which is the basic principle of Chinese medicine clinic and the soul of Chinese medicine.

3. Sun Simiao (541-682)

A native of Huayuan, Jingzhao (present-day Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), he was a medical scientist and Taoist priest in the Tang Dynasty, and was honored as the "King of Medicines" by later generations.

Sun Simiao was born into a poor farmer's family in the seventh year of Daitong (541) in the Western Wei Dynasty. He was very intelligent from an early age, and began to love Taoist Laozhuang when he grew up. In the first year of Kaihuang in Sui Dynasty (581), Sun Simiao retired to Zhongnan Mountain, Shaanxi Province, and gradually gained a high reputation for his work.

Sun Simiao attached great importance to the medical experience of the folk, and continued to accumulate visits, recorded in a timely manner, and finally completed his work, "Thousand Golden Essentials". After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao accepted the invitation of the imperial court to cooperate with the government in medical activities. In the fourth year of Tang Gaozong Xianqing's reign (659), he completed the world's first national pharmacopoeia, Tang Xin Ben Cao (Tang New Materia Medica).

In the first year of Shangyuan (674) of Tang Emperor Gaozong's reign, Sun Simiao, who was elderly and ill, pleaded to return to his hometown. In the first year of Yongchun (682), he passed away.

4. Li Shizhen (1518-1593)

The word Dongbi, late in life, the self-titled end of the lake mountain people, herb Chun County, Hubei herb Chun Town, East Long Street of the Washiba (now Dr. Street), Ming Dynasty, a famous medical scientist. Later for the Chu King's House ancestral temple is, the Royal Imperial Hospital judge, after his death, the Ming dynasty imperial edict as "Wenlin Lang".

Li Shizhen since 1565, successively to Wudang Mountain, Mount Lu, Mount Mao, Mount Niushoushan and Hubei, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect specimens of drugs and prescriptions, and to worship fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, car drivers, pharmacists, snake catchers as a teacher, with reference to 925 kinds of medicine and other aspects of the books of the past dynasties, archaeological evidence of the present, the exhaustive study of the physical, recorded on the tens of millions of words of notes, to clear up many difficult questions, the history of the medicine, the history of the world's most famous medical experts, and the world's most famous medical experts, the world's largest medical experts. To clarify many difficult issues, after 27 summers and three drafts, in the eighteenth year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty (1590) completed the 1.92 million-word monumental work "Compendium of Materia Medica", in addition to pulse science and the eight channels of Qi Jing also have research.

His works include "Examination of the Eight Channels of Qi Jing" and "Pulse Science of the Lying Lake". By later generations honored as ? "Sage of Medicine".

5. Bian Magpie (407 BC-310 BC)

Named Qin Yue Ren, Bohai Mo Ren (present-day Neiqiu County, Hebei Province), a famous doctor in the Warring States period. And home in Lu country (present-day Shandong Changqing area), because of the name of Lu doctor. The Historical Records and other records of his deeds cover hundreds of years. Magpie in internal, external, gynecological, pediatric, five senses and other subjects, the application of acupuncture, acupuncture, massage, soup, hot ironing and other methods of treatment of disease, was honored as the ancestor of medicine.

Bian Magpie is said to have saved the Prince of Guo, and after Bian Magpie's death, the Prince of Guo felt the kindness of his reconstruction and collected his bones and buried them in a tomb located in the east of Qinghua Town, Yongji City, nowadays. When Bian Magpie was young, he was modest and studious, and he studied hard to learn the art of medicine. He put his accumulated medical experience to use for the common people and traveled around the world, practicing medicine in various places to relieve people's pain. Because Bian Magpie was so good at medicine and cured many diseases for the people, the working people of Zhao gave him the title of "Bian Magpie".

Expanded Information

Hua Tuo's Bone Cure

In Luo Guanzhong's Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there is a section of Hua Tuo's description of Guan Yu's bone scraping treatment, which is about Guan Yu's right arm being hit by a poisoned arrow of the Wei army during the battle of Xiangyang. Later, the wound gradually swelled up and became so painful that he could not move. Hua Tuo cut open his arm and scraped the bone to remove the poison on the bone, while Guan Yu looked unchanged and was still playing chess with others. This story originally celebrates Guan Yu's bravery, perseverance and patience, and also illustrates Hua Tuo's medical skill. He won the praise and admiration of people. He is the originator of our surgical medicine.

This is a fictionalized story based on facts recorded in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the Xiangyang Prefecture Records of Hubei Province and widely circulated in the folklore. Although Guan Yu had his bones scraped, Hua Tuo had long since died several years earlier.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Hua Tuo