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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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Zhang Zhongjing
150 – 219Treatise on Cold Damage remains a foundation of Chinese medicine.
Zhang Xichun
1860 – 1933First great synthesiser of Chinese and Western medicine; his case records still teach clinicians.
Cheng Dan'an
1899 – 1957Rescued acupuncture from abolition and rebuilt it on anatomical terms with filiform needles.
Zhu Lian
1909 – 1978Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.
Deng Tietao
1916 – 2019Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.
Tenzin Choedrak
1922 – 2001Personal physician to the Dalai Lama who preserved Tibetan medicine through 17 years of imprisonment.
Tu Youyou
b. 1930Extracted artemisinin from ancient texts; millions of malaria deaths averted.