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Deng Tietao

01-0204Traditional Chinese Medicine DiagnosticsTraditional MedicineChina Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Deng Tietao studied medicine under his father, Mengjueshi, a celebrated physician of the Lingnan region.

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in 1916 in Kaiping, Guangdong. Over a medical, teaching, and research career spanning seventy years, he proposed a series of theories and doctrines influential for the development of modern medicine, including the theory of the interrelation of the five viscera, the inheritance and development of the spleen-stomach doctrine, diagnostics of Chinese medicine, the integration of cold-damage and warm-disease doctrines, the modern history of Chinese medicine, and strategic research on contemporary Chinese medicine. He excelled in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, coronary heart disease and hypertension in particular, of perioperative complications in cardiac surgery, and of neuromuscular diseases such as myasthenia gravis, as well as in the prevention and treatment of digestive diseases such as chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis of the liver. Major projects he led include Clinical and Experimental Research on Pattern Differentiation and Treatment of Myasthenia Gravis (Zhongliang Jiwuli Bianzheng Lunzhi Linchuang yu Shiyan Yanjiu), Research on the Inheritance and Innovation of the Theory of Interrelation among the Five Viscera in Chinese Medicine (Zhongyi Wuzang Xiangguan Lilun Jicheng yu Chuangxin Yanjiu), Clinical Research by Professor Deng Tietao on Pattern Differentiation and Treatment of AIDS, Research on the Chinese Medicine Protocol for Preventing and Treating Human Avian Influenza, and Establishment and Research of the Chinese Medicine Protocol for Preventing and Treating Influenza. He is the author of Practical Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine (Shiyong Zhongyi Zhenduan Xue) and a co-editor of the Dictionary of Chinese Medicine (Zhongyi Dacidian), among other works.

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a professor and doctoral supervisor at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, a standing council member of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, and he enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council. Beginning in the late 1950s, Deng Tietao trained more than ten doctoral supervisors and more than ten master's supervisors, whose academic work spans such fields as internal medicine of Chinese medicine, the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, the history and literature of medicine, and the fundamentals of Chinese medicine.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Deng Tietao · National Representative Bearer Archive

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Profile

Representative item
Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics
Item code
Ⅸ-2
Category
Traditional Medicine
Region
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Born
1916.10
Batch
Batch 1 (2007)

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