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Chinese medical sage Zhang Zhongjing
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From 196 to 219 AD, warlords dogfighted in chaos and plagues spread widely. Numerous people died of contagions.In Zhang Zhongjing's kindred, there were over two hundred kinship members.Two thirds of them had died result from disease within ten years,seventy percent of which died was risen from the contagious typhoid.The so-called typhoid at that time includes cholera, dysentery, pneu-monia, flu and some other acute contagious diseases. In the late peri-od of the Eastern Han Dynasty, most doctors felt helpless to these diseases, for there was no remedy right to kill them. As a result,thousands of people lost their lives.
For that reason, Zhang Zhongiing labored over the diseases for years which resulted in a com-plete system of theories on pathology, diagnosis, therapy and prescriptions for typhoid fevers. He maintained that the typhoid devel-oped gradually from the initial attack till the crucial dying state.Treatments should be varied according to different individuals at the different stages of the disease development. Zhang Zhongiing kept on summing up his clinic experience while he was practicing medicine,noting down those effective prescriptions. Based on his years' practic-ing experience, he worked out a monograph, Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases. This is a classic work on traditional Chinese medicine, which is a must for doctors of all generations. Now all the TCM universities assign it as a compulsory course. As a result,Zhang Zhongjing was admired as a medical sage in honor of his significant contribution to TCM.
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