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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
Era
6 figures
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.
Keisetsu Otsuka
1900 – 1980Revived Kampo in Japan and secured its place inside the national health insurance system.
Zhu Lian
1909 – 1978Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.
Yoshio Manaka
1911 – 1989Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.
Deng Tietao
1916 – 2019Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.