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Wang Xiaotao

01-0206Traditional Herbal Processing TechniquesTraditional MedicineChina Academy of Chinese Medical SciencesBatch 1 (2007)

Lineage & School of Heritage

Wang Xiaotao was born into a family of Chinese medicine practitioners. He studied under Professor Zhao Juhuang, a renowned materia medica scholar of China, and after 1960 devoted himself to the traditional techniques of processing Chinese materia medica, documenting the entire processing procedures and compiling A Compilation of Experience in the Processing of Chinese Materia Medica (Zhongyao Paozhi Jingyan Jicheng) and A Digest of Historical Materials on the Processing of Chinese Materia Medica (Lidai Zhongyao Paozhi Ziliao Jiyao).

Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire

A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in 1928 in Pingyang, Zhejiang. He is familiar with the historical evolution of traditional processing of Chinese materia medica and with modern production techniques, and he commands the traditional techniques for identifying the quality of prepared slices of Chinese drugs (yinpian). He established the first research laboratory for the processing of Chinese materia medica in China and has conducted in-depth research on techniques for processing toxic Chinese drugs. He has summarized and refined the discipline and research procedures of Chinese materia medica processing. He undertook and completed the key national research project 'Research on Commonly Used Prepared Slices of Chinese Drugs' under the Seventh and Eighth Five-Year Plans, serving as project leader and technical adviser; he completed seven research achievements at the national and ministerial or bureau levels, published ten monographs on materia medica processing, and published 110 papers. Works he edited include A Compilation of Experience in the Processing of Chinese Materia Medica (Zhongyao Paozhi Jingyan Jicheng), A Compendium of Methods for Processing Chinese Materia Medica (Zhongyao Paozhifa Huidian), An Account of the Processing of Prepared Slices of Chinese Drugs (Zhongyao Yinpian Paozhi Shuyao), and National Standards for the Processing of Chinese Materia Medica (Quanguo Zhongyao Paozhi Guifan).

Honors & Recognition

He is a national representative bearer of Traditional Herbal Processing Techniques, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a researcher at the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and a member of the Pharmacopoeia Commission of the Ministry of Health.

References & Archival Sources

Wang Xiaotao · National Representative Bearer Archive

Representative Items of This Bearer

Profile

Representative item: Traditional Herbal Processing Techniques
Item code: Ⅸ-3
Category: Traditional Medicine
Region: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences
Born: 1928.06
Batch: Batch 1 (2007)

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