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Who are the ancients called medical saints?
Zhang Zhongjing is known as a medical sage.

Zhang Zhongjing was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang (now Zhangzhai Village, Gedong Town, dengzhou city City, Henan Province). The famous doctor at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was honored as a "medical sage" by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing extensively collected medical prescriptions and wrote the masterpiece Treatise on Febrile Diseases handed down from ancient times. The established principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment is the basic principle of TCM clinic and the soul of TCM. In the aspect of prescription science, Treatise on Febrile Diseases has also made great contributions, creating many dosage forms and recording a large number of effective prescriptions.

There are many works of annotation and explanation on this book in past dynasties. In particular, there are as many as 300 or 400 books that annotate and expound Treatise on Febrile Diseases. Its influence goes far beyond national boundaries and has a great influence on Asian countries, such as Japan, North Korea, Vietnam and Mongolia. Japan, in particular, once had an ancient school specializing in Zhang Zhongjing. Until today, the Japanese traditional Chinese medicine community still likes to use Zhang Zhongjing's prescription.

Zhang Zhongjing's related works:

1, Treatise on Febrile Diseases (lost, one of the four classic works of traditional Chinese medicine): This book comprehensively expounds the theory and treatment principles of traditional Chinese medicine and is the earliest monograph on clinical diagnosis and treatment in China.

2. Treatise on Febrile Diseases: It was compiled by Wang Shuhe, a doctor in Jin Dynasty, according to his anecdote about the typhoid part of Treatise on Febrile Diseases.

3. Synopsis of the Golden Chamber: In the Song Dynasty, Wang Zhu, Lin Bu and others stumbled upon the incomplete bamboo slips Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and compiled some miscellaneous diseases into a book, renamed it Synopsis of the Golden Chamber, and published it in the world.

4. Zhang Zhongjing also wrote ten volumes of Treatise on Febrile Diseases, one volume of Treatise on Diseases, two volumes of Prescriptions for Treating Women, one volume of Treatise on Five Zangs and one volume of Speech, but they have all been lost for a long time.