Traditional Chinese Medicine Diagnostics

Ⅸ-2Traditional MedicinePingyao, ShanxiBatch 3 (2011)Extension ItemFeatured

01 · Historical Records

The Daohubi Wang Family Gynecology of Chinese Medicine originated in the Song-Jin and Yuan periods and has been passed down through 29 generations over more than 800 years. In 1952, Wang Yupu, together with his sons Wang Peizhang and Wang Peiyao, founded an integrated Chinese and Western medicine clinic, which later became the Pingyao County Gynecology Hospital. In 1962, the Pingyao County Gynecology Hospital merged with the Pingyao County People's Hospital. In 1998, the "Taiyuan Daohubi Gynecology Clinic" was founded. In 1990, the "Pingyao County Daohubi Wanggong Clinic" was founded.

02 · Core Techniques & Process

It is now located in Daohubi Village, the ancient city of Pingyao, Shanxi Province, 2.5 kilometers from the ancient city. Wang's Gynecology specializes in difficult and complicated gynecological conditions such as women's prenatal and postpartum conditions, irregular menstruation, prolonged infertility, flooding, spotting, and abnormal vaginal discharge, ovarian cysts, uterine fibroids, and lumbar distress and incessant bleeding caused by intrauterine device insertion. For the selection and processing of medicinal materials, and the making of pills, powders, plasters, and elixirs, techniques such as sun-drying, dew-refining with sugar, wine-processing, vinegar-soaking, salt-soaking, steaming, sun-drying again, and honey-processing are all employed; the technical operations are mastered entirely by experience. The famous physicians of the Wang gynecology family recorded in history include the founding ancestor Wang Hou, the fourth-generation heir Wang Shiheng, the eighth-generation heir Wang Shineng, the eleventh-generation heir Wang Jinggang, the twelfth-generation Wang Bohui, the nineteenth-generation Wang Pinyu, the twentieth-generation Wang Dusheng, and the twenty-fifth-generation Wang Jiyi. The twenty-sixth-generation Wang Yupu was a famous physician of modern times. Wang Peizhang, the twenty-seventh-generation heir and a famous physician of modern times, was the son of Wang Yupu and a chief physician. The modern figures Wang Jiyi and Wang Yupu are both recorded in the Pingyao County Gazetteer. Through the medical practice of generation after generation, Wang's Gynecology accumulated a large amount of clinical experience, ancestral secret formulas, pulse verses and rhymes, and unique methods for processing Chinese materia medica, curing diseases for the broad masses of patients and winning deep praise among the people. This efficacy and reputation are the fundamental reason for the generational transmission of Wang's Gynecology. The twenty-eighth-generation heir Wang Wen practiced medicine for more than forty years and co-authored the book The Family-Transmitted Application of Fu Shan's Gynecology with his father Wang Peizhang, which won an award. The twenty-eighth-generation heir Wang Gong is a practitioner of Chinese medicine. He has practiced medicine for more than thirty years and, building on Wang's Gynecology, has achieved distinctive efficacy in the diagnosis and treatment of male impotence and premature ejaculation, seminal emission, and infertility caused by liver-kidney deficiency.

Reading menstruation, discharge and pregnancy

Gynaecological diagnosis is organised around menstruation, discharge, pregnancy and childbirth, colour and texture leading to the pattern.

Preparing pills, powders, ointments and pills

Prescriptions are made up into pills, powders and ointments on the spot, the form chosen by severity and urgency.

Wine, vinegar, brine, steam and honey processing

Sunning, dew-curing, wine, vinegar, brine, steaming, drying and honey processing are combined, each judged by hand rather than rule.

Distinguishing patterns in bleeding and discharge

Infertility, bleeding, discharge and post-insertion low back pain are divided into patterns, judged by mnemonic verses kept within the family.

The Daohubi gynaecology dispensary

The family practice at Daohubi village outside the Pingyao old town, where calling the Daohubi doctors was once treated as a family's duty.

03 · Regional Records & Related Items

When a local daughter-in-law fell ill and died, her natal family would ask whether the Wang family of Daohubi had been consulted for treatment; otherwise, the natal family would certainly hold them responsible.

04 · Cultural Value & Contemporary Safeguarding

Wang Peizhang (record of the associated inheritor's official archive): Today, the Wang family has hundreds of doctors distributed throughout the country, and many descendants have inherited the family vocation. Male, Han ethnicity, born in November 1932, died in August 2017, native of Pingyao County, Shanxi Province. Representative inheritor of the fourth batch of national-level intangible cultural heritage project "Chinese Diagnostic Methods (Daohubi Wang Family Gynecology of Chinese Medicine)".

05 · Associated Representative Bearers

Representative bearers recorded under this item, organized by national nomination batch:

06 · Authoritative Sources & Bibliography

Sources

China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network (ihchina.cn)

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