Wang Zengshi
Lineage & School of Heritage
Born into a family of Miao physicians, at the age of seven or eight he went up the mountains with his father to gather and identify medicinal herbs, becoming his father's 'little apprentice' and receiving the family transmission. He began practising medicine at about the age of twenty and is the eighth-generation transmitter of Miao medicine in his family. He commands the family's inherited therapies for bone injuries and snake bites.
Mastery, Signature Works & Repertoire
Male, Miao ethnicity, born in November 1957 in Leishan County, Guizhou Province. In more than thirty years of practice he has used his ancestral Miao medical and medicinal formulas, followed Miao medical norms, and continually summarized experience, steadily improving his diagnostic and therapeutic skills. He is devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of complicated and difficult diseases and has considerable research and treatment experience with fractures, traumatic injuries, rheumatism, bone hyperplasia, snake bites, unnamed tumours, hepatitis B, and sequelae of stroke. He actively transmits the ancestral Miao medical art, never keeping it to himself, and his skill and medical ethics are widely praised.
Honors & Recognition
National representative bearer of Miao Medicine (Bone Injury and Snake Bite Therapy), a fifth-batch national intangible cultural heritage project.
References & Archival Sources
Representative Items of This Bearer
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
- Miao Medicine Ⅸ-15
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