Yan Zhenghua
Lineage & School of Heritage
Yan Zhenghua studied under Yang Boliang, a third-generation inheritor of the Menghe school, and is one of the principal founders of the modern discipline of Chinese materia medica and pharmacy.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
A man of Han ethnicity, he was born in 1920 in Danyang, Jiangsu. Yan Zhenghua is thoroughly versed in the nature and properties of materia medica, and his pattern differentiation is precise and meticulous; he excels in treating diseases of the spleen and stomach, external contractions, and the heart and brain. His medical art is consummate and his style distinctive: his prescriptions use small quantities and few medicinals, being gentle, mild, and harmonious; he skillfully employs medicinals with multiple effects, attaches importance to safety, and pays close attention to processing, decoction, and methods of administration. Yan Zhenghua's principal research field is the theory of the nature and properties of Chinese medicinals and their clinical application, and he is a model of the integration of the academic and empirical schools. Over nearly sixty years of medical practice and teaching, he participated in the building of the discipline of Chinese materia medica and pharmacy within the higher education of New China, and was among the first professors and graduate supervisors in Chinese medicine and materia medica of the country. He presided over three ministerial- and bureau-level research projects, conducting focused research on such medicinals as those for delaying senescence and reducing fever; he compiled and published Practical Clinical Chinese Materia Medica (Linchuang Shiyong Zhongyao Xue) and Chinese Materia Medica (Zhongyao Xue), among other works; and he published more than forty academic papers and six collections of medical case records.
Honors & Recognition
He is a national representative bearer of Traditional TCM Preparation Methods, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project, a lifetime professor at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, and a doctoral supervisor, and he enjoys a special government allowance from the State Council. He successively taught such courses as Chinese Materia Medica, Formulary Studies, Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine, and Clinical Chinese Medicine, and trained a large number of professionals in Chinese medicine and materia medica for the country.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Traditional TCM Preparation Methods Ⅸ-4
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- Traditional TCM Preparation Methods Ⅸ-4
- Traditional TCM Preparation Methods Ⅸ-4
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