Tian Conghuo
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Tian Conghuo was born in August 1930 in Luannan County, Hebei Province, and is of Han ethnicity. He is a chief physician and professor. He graduated from China Medical University in 1951. In 1952 he took Zhu Lian and Gao Fengtong as his teachers and joined the research class for Western-trained doctors studying traditional Chinese medicine at the Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Ministry of Health. He emphasised syndrome differentiation and treatment in traditional Chinese medicine, attending to principle, method, formula, acupoint and technique, and held that one should use acupuncture where acupuncture is indicated and medicine where medicine is indicated, or combine the two, and that Chinese and Western medicine should be integrated in treatment. He conducted in-depth research on various moxibustion methods and on acupoint application therapies. He published more than seventy papers. His works include Zhenjiu Yixue Yanji (Collected Essays on Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medicine), Zhongguo Jiufa Jicui (A Compendium of Chinese Moxibustion Methods) and Zhenjiu Baibing Jingyan (Experiences in Treating a Hundred Diseases with Acupuncture and Moxibustion).
Honors & Recognition
He is a representative bearer of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project. His research on relieving asthma by treating winter ailments in summer received a ministerial-level achievement award. He travelled to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Switzerland and other countries for medical treatment and teaching, and trained a large number of acupuncture professionals in China and abroad. He was recognised as a national-level renowned veteran Chinese medicine doctor and as a renowned master of Chinese medicine of the capital by the Beijing Municipal Health Bureau and the Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
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