From the structure of the catalog, the book is a complete collection of medical prescriptions in the form of diseases, diseases, and prescriptions...Zhang Xichun (1860-1933), Shoufu, originating from Zhucheng, Shandong Province, and a native of Yanshan County, Hebei Province, was one of the representatives of the school of Chinese and Western medicine, and was one of the leading figures of Chinese medicine in modern China, founding the Lida Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the first Chinese medicine hospital in China, in 1916, and settling in Tianjin in 1928. In 1916, he founded China's first Chinese medicine hospital in Shenyang - Lida Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and in 1928, he settled in Tianjin and founded the National Medical Correspondence School. In 1930, he founded the National Correspondence School of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Tianjin, which trained a lot of Chinese medical talents.

Chinese name

Zhang Xichun (1400-1634), anti-Qing revolutionary and martyr

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beginning of life

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sino

birthplace

Yanshan County in Hebei

careers

Doctors, Western and Eastern medical practitioners

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persons

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Characteristics of the formula

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historical evaluation

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biography

In 1885, Zhang Xichun cured a critical illness that even the famous doctors Gao Lu Xuan and Mao Xian Ge were unable to do anything about, and he was praised by them, and has been practicing medicine ever since. Before 1911, however, he was still teaching as his main occupation.

In 1893, after failing to pass the second autumn examination, Zhang Xichun followed his father's order to study medicine, from "Huangdi Neijing" and "Typhoid Fever Theory" down to the sayings of various schools of thought, all of which he perused. At the same time, Zhang Xichun began to come into contact with Western medicine and other Western studies.

In 1904, when China abolished the imperial examinations and established schools, Zhang Xichun became the only instructor in Yanshan County who could teach algebra and geometry. Influenced by the trend of the times, Zhang developed the idea of "Zhong Zhong" (衷中) and "Xi Xian" (参西) and devoted himself to medicine, and more than ten years of study and consultation before and after 1900 matured his academic thinking.

This is the beginning or the first person to learn modern medicine from "traditional Chinese medicine practitioners", and it can also be said to be the first person to "reform Chinese medicine" and "integrate Chinese and Western medicine".

We can realize from the book that the purpose of medicine is to cure diseases and save lives. The development and progress of medicine should not be hindered by the cognitive barriers created by the differences between "portals" and "cultures".

Zhang Xichun, a medical doctor from Hebei Province, put forward the idea of "Zhongzhong and Xianxi" in the early 20th century and specialized in clinical practice.

Zhong zhong gan xi lu (The Record of Medical Concerns and References to the West), was first published as a periodical, with seven issues from 1918 to 1934. It coincided with a period of debate between Chinese and Western medicine, and the views in the booklet were marked and characterized by the times.

Most of the cases in this book are medical cases, which are not labeled with their own schools of medicine or opinions, but are just objective descriptions of what they have seen and heard in the clinic in imitation of Western medicine. For example, the medical case of treating tuberculosis with aspirin combined with spleen-healthy and yin-nourishing Chinese medicine; and the medical case of using warm medicine to pass the patient's urine in conjunction with Western catheterization, etc., fully demonstrated that Zhang Xichun was not confined to ancient formulas and prescriptions, but adopted some Western medical views, incorporated Chinese medicine's viewpoints of evidence, and emphasized the idea of the complementarity of Western and Eastern medical science, which was definitely an innovation in China at the time!

The treatments and tonics in this book, such as Ginseng and Mai Tang, Lai Fu Tang, and Sheng Sheng Tang, still have a lot of practical and research value today.