ZHANG Zhongjing
Zhang Zhongjing, a native of Henan today, was a famous medical scientist in the Eastern Han Dynasty, who wrote "Typhoid Fever" and was revered as a medical saint by later generations. Together with Bian Que, Hua Tuo and Li Shizhen, he is known as the four famous doctors of ancient China.
First, early experience
Zhang Zhongjing was born into a bureaucratic family in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and was exposed to various classics from an early age.
During the Jian'an period, the plague spread, and two-thirds of the population of Zhang Zhongjing died of the epidemic, which made him decide to study medicine. So Zhang Zhongjing began to study medicine, and after fully mastering the content taught by the teacher, he began to study ancient medical books, and his medical skills continued to improve.
II. "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases"
Based on the achievements of his predecessors' medicine, Zhang Zhongjing learned from all sides, synthesized his years of clinical practice, and wrote the masterpiece "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" with decades of painstaking efforts.
"Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" systematically analyzes the pathogenesis, symptoms, development stages and treatment methods of typhoid fever, and also creatively establishes the "principle of dialectical treatment" of the Six Sutras, laying the theoretical foundation of "theory, law, prescription and medicine", which is the core idea and soul of Chinese medicine and the ancestor of all future generations.
Third, the influence of future generations
Zhang Zhongjing extensively studied medical knowledge and historical documents, created many theories and methods, and had a high reputation and status in the medical field, and later generations respected him as "Medical Saint".
The medical ideas and theoretical achievements in "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases" have made great and irreplaceable contributions to the development and inheritance of traditional Chinese medicine, and this medical book is still the pillar theory of traditional Chinese medicine today, with far-reaching influence and is known as the "ancestor of traditional Chinese medicine".