Shi Qi

01 · Lineage & Regional School

Shi Qi, Male, Han, from China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, is a first-batch national representative bearer of TCM Bone-setting Therapy (Ⅸ-6). The tradition is documented in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. Within the regional tradition and school record of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: It is an important component of traditional Chinese medicine, with a history of more than three thousand years to the present day.

02 · Mastery & Signature Works

A man of the Han ethnicity, he was born in 1937 in Dongtai, Jiangsu. Shi Qi was born into a family of traditional Chinese medicine and was steeped in family learning from childhood. In 1957 he was admitted to the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine and, after graduation, received the direct instruction of Shi Xiaoshan, a renowned master of traumatology in Chinese medicine. Broadly inclusive in his learning, he also studied the special strengths in traumatology of such famous physicians as Wei Zhixin and Wang Ziping. He excels in treating all kinds of brain and spinal diseases, and has conducted in-depth research on traumatic brain injury, brain tumors, cervical spondylosis, lumbar disc herniation, nonunion of fractures, hyperosteogeny, osteoporosis, and various rheumatic bi syndromes. He holds the Yishui School in high esteem and places emphasis on protecting and nourishing the spleen and stomach. Within the documented technical tradition of TCM Bone-setting Therapy in China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences: Traditional Chinese medicine bone-setting therapy is a treatment method that, through manipulations such as traction, repositioning, and alignment, employs external fixation with small splints to treat fractures, joint dislocations, and other diseases of the locomotor system. Through long-term medical practice, Chinese bone-setting has formed a distinctive theoretical system and complete principles and methods of treatment, and has accumulated very rich experience. The "small splint fixation" used in bone-setting was first developed in China and was later emulated by many countries. Chinese bone-setting can be called one of the great contributions of traditional Chinese medicine to world medicine. Among these traditions, some are documented in the literature, while others have survived only through oral transmission among the people. Representative repertoire, works and technical entries recorded for the project include: "Traction, reduction and apposition": Traction opens the overriding ends, reduction realigns them and apposition corrects the rest, all held by small splints, a fixation first devised in China. "The eight methods for sinew injury": His eight sinew methods come from the Liu Shoushan line, and he always paired manual treatment with differentiated herbal formulas. "Breaking, moving and tonifying in stages": Drug treatment moves in three stages — expel stasis, activate blood, then strengthen the kidney — alongside eight manual methods for reduction. "Adjusting the small splints": Splints are shaped to site and displacement and loosened as swelling subsides, keeping fixation and movement together.

03 · Transmission & Safeguarding Status

A national representative bearer of TCM Bone-setting Therapy, a first-batch national intangible cultural heritage project; professor, chief physician, and doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine; an expert with outstanding contributions recognized by the State Council; and a mentor of the national program for inheriting the academic experience of famous veteran practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine. Shi Qi has published numerous medical works, and many of his academic papers have won awards; he has supervised one postdoctoral researcher, trained ten doctoral students and nine master's students, mentored two apprentices, and guided two Shanghai 'Hope Stars of Traditional Chinese Medicine.'

04 · Associated Heritage Item Dossier

05 · Fellow National Bearers Lineage

National representative bearers recorded under the same item code, ordered from the first to the sixth batch. Batch order is not a teacher–student relationship.

06 · Archival Sources & Bibliography

1. Shi Qi · National Representative Bearer Archive