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Zhou Zhongying

01-0205Traditional Chinese Medicine DiagnosticsTraditional MedicineChina Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesBatch 1 (2007)

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in 1928 in Rudong, Jiangsu. Zhou Zhongying was born into a family of Chinese medicine practitioners. From childhood he studied Chinese medicine under his father, Zhou Xiaozhai; he later studied at the Shanghai New China College of Chinese Medicine, and in 1955 entered the Nanjing School of Advanced Studies in Chinese Medicine. In the system of internal medicine, he was the first to propose that the viscera and bowels (zangfu) serve as the basis for the systematic classification of internal diseases, and on that basis he compiled a General Treatise of Internal Medicine: Outline of Pattern Differentiation and Treatment, playing a pioneering role in clinical specialization. In research on acute conditions, he summarized the fundamental pathological features of acute conditions as the combination of internal and external pathogens, great excess together with great deficiency, and simultaneous disease of multiple viscera; he emphasized the important role of such pathological factors as wind, fire, heat, and toxin, constructed an academic system for emergencies in internal medicine of Chinese medicine, and was the first to offer a course in emergencies in internal medicine of Chinese medicine. In research on difficult and complicated illnesses, he stressed the pathogenic roles of phlegm, stasis, fire, and toxin; taking pathological factors as the thread and visceral pathomechanism as the core, he elucidated the concrete application and interrelations of supplementation and drainage for deficiency and excess, the treatment of root and branch, urgency and gradualism, and compound therapeutic methods, and systematically summarized the pathological characteristics and laws of pattern differentiation and treatment for difficult and complicated illnesses.

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a professor, chief physician, and doctoral supervisor at Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, and he enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council. He has received such honorary titles as Advanced Scientific and Technological Worker of National Higher Education, National Excellent Graduate Supervisor, and National Famous Veteran Physician of Chinese Medicine. He has presided over ten national-level research projects, six ministerial-level projects, and seventeen provincial-level or above projects, and is the author of the academic monograph Treatise on Stasis and Heat (Yure Lun), among other works.

References & Archival Sources

  1. Zhou Zhongying · 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
1928.08
Batch
Batch 1 (2007)

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