Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine is a two-thousand-year clinical literature that remains in daily use for a fifth of humanity. The index runs from the classical compilers of the materia medica to modern researchers who mined those texts for pharmacology, including the Nobel-recognised isolation of artemisinin.
11 indexed lives · 0 Nobel laureates · 6 countries
Where to start
Zhang Xichun
1860 – 1933First great synthesiser of Chinese and Western medicine; his case records still teach clinicians.
China·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine
Georges Soulié de Morant
1878 – 1955French consul in China whose L'Acuponcture Chinoise opened the practice to Europe.
France·Traditional Chinese Medicine
Cheng Dan'an
1899 – 1957Rescued acupuncture from abolition and rebuilt it on anatomical terms with filiform needles.
China·Traditional Chinese Medicine