A course in Traditional Chinese Medicine

First great synthesiser of Chinese and Western medicine; his case records still teach clinicians.

French consul in China whose L'Acuponcture Chinoise opened the practice to Europe.

Rescued acupuncture from abolition and rebuilt it on anatomical terms with filiform needles.

Revived Kampo in Japan and secured its place inside the national health insurance system.

Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.

Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.

Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.

Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.

Her arrest and trial in California led directly to acupuncture's legalisation in the state.

The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.

Wrote The Web That Has No Weaver, then founded Harvard's programme in placebo studies.