Wu Xianzhong
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A man of Manchu ethnicity, he was born in 1925 in Xinmin, Liaoning. In 1959 he began clinical research on the treatment of acute abdominal conditions by the integrated use of Chinese and Western medicine. In 1975 he founded the Institute of Acute Abdomen in Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and has served as its director ever since. Wu Xianzhong inherited and carried forward traditional Chinese medical theory, establishing the principle that 'the six fu organs function by being kept unobstructed' (liufu yi tong wei yong) as fundamental in the treatment of acute abdominal conditions. He created the 'eight methods' for treating acute abdominal conditions, with the method of freeing the interior and purging downward (tongli gongxia) as the focus, and proposed the clinical research approach of 'confirming therapeutic effects, exploring regularities, reforming dosage forms, and probing mechanisms', together with the clinical research method of 'taking methods as the point of breakthrough and pursuing principles through methods'. His applied and basic research on the method of freeing the interior and purging downward in abdominal surgery has provided a feasible scheme for the modern medical prevention and treatment of intestinal failure, and has become a model in the field of integrated Chinese and Western medicine. The integrated Chinese and Western clinical surgery program he led has been a national key discipline since 1989. His representative works include Treatment of Acute Abdomen by Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine (Zhongxiyi Jiehe Zhiliao Jifuzheng), A New Study of Acute Abdomen (Xin Jifuzheng Xue), Treatment of Common Acute Abdominal Conditions in Surgery by Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine, and An Interpretation of Prescriptions and Medicinals for Acute Abdomen (Jifuzheng Fangyao Quanshi).
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of TCM Cognition of Life and Disease, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a professor and chief physician at Tianjin Nankai Hospital, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wu Xianzhong has lectured in more than ten overseas countries as well as in the Hong Kong and Taiwan regions of China. He has received such honors as the 'Willing Ox' Golden Globe Award of the Hong Kong Buningdun Foundation, the Achievement Award of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, and the 'Great Physician, Absolute Sincerity' Award of the Chinese Hospital Association.
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