Three Kingdoms History: Zhang Zhongjing

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Zhang Zhongjing, commonly known as Zhang Ji (張機), was a famous physician from the Eastern Han Dynasty. He lived in modern day Nanyang, located in Henan Province. In his time many people were infected with febrile disease, as was his own family. He learned medicine by studying from Zhang Bozu, a fellow townsman, from other carefully-studied medicinal texts, and by accumulating prescriptions from around China.

He knowledge was compiled into two books, the Shanghan Zabing Lun (AD 220, “Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases”), a discourse on how to treat epidemic fever-inducing infectious diseases common to his era, and another, the highly influential doctrine Jingui yaolue (“Synoptic Essentials from the Golden Cabinet”), a compendium of his clinical experiences. He established many new principles in medicine and chronicled medical knowledge through the Han Dynasty, thus making a great contribution to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine.