Which famous doctor in China is called the father of traditional Chinese medicine?

Zhang Zhongjing of China is called "the father of traditional Chinese medicine".

Zhang Zhongjing was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang (now Zhangzhai Village, Gedong Town, dengzhou city City, Henan Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, a medical scientist, one of the three doctors of Jian 'an, was honored as a "medical sage" by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing extensively collected medical prescriptions and wrote the famous book Treatise on Febrile Diseases, which was called "the father of Chinese medicine" by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing initiated the diagnosis and treatment classification of clinical diseases of Yin and Yang, exterior and interior, cold and heat, deficiency and excess, and formulated corresponding treatment methods, which laid the basic principles of TCM syndrome differentiation and treatment.

Treatise on Febrile Diseases is the earliest monograph on clinical diagnosis and treatment in China, and it has been praised as a "treasure book for generations" by later physicians. This paper systematically analyzes the etiology, symptoms, development stages and treatment methods of typhoid fever, creatively establishes the principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment of typhoid fever according to the classification of six meridians, and lays the theoretical foundation of principle, method, prescription and medicine.

Brief introduction of Zhang Zhongjing's hometown

1, medical holy land

The medical shrine, located on the bank of Wenliang River in the east of Nanyang City, a famous historical and cultural city in China and the third largest city in Henan Province, is a national key cultural relic protection unit. The medical shrine faces south and covers an area of about 17 mu. Its establishment date is uncertain, and it was expanded several times in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The gate is an imitation Han building, and a pair of mother and son pavilions stand in front of it, which is magnificent. The painted rosefinch on the pavilion looks down on the blue sky and wants to fly. The medical shrine is a group of buildings with the artistic style of the Han Dynasty, which is spacious and magnificent.

2. Yang Ni

Zhang Zhongjing's hometown is located in Zhangzhai Village, Gedong Town, a famous clothing town in the Central Plains. In the southeast stands a 3-meter-high and 0.65-meter-wide monument to the "hometown of medical sage Zhang Zhongjing". 1993, Gedong Town Government designated the eastern end of Zhongjing Road as Zhang Zhongjing Memorial Hall. A landscape retaining wall with a height of 1.5 meters is built on the periphery, and a memorial tower of Zhang Zhongjing and a medical palace are built in the memorial site. The tower is a toothed four-column tower, which gradually converges and intersects with the top from bottom to top. There are two turntables and colored lights at the top of the tower, and the tower is 30 meters high.

The above contents refer to the paper client-Traditional Chinese Medicine Culture | The Father of Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical Medicine-Zhang Zhongjing.