Creation Of Guangdong Chinese Medicine Doctors Directory In Qing Dynasty And Correlating Studies

Lingnan medicine is a distinct local medicine. During the Qing period and Minguo period, there was an unparalleled development which had a lot to do with the contribution of Lingnan doctors and had therefore established its important status in Chinese medicine. The Guangdong doctors in Qing dynasty had not only inherited our traditional Chinese medicine, but had also taken well advantage of the non-Chinese medicine, and created Lingnan medical culture with uniqueness in locality and times. They' d contributed to the academic development of Chinese medicine in Guangdong in many ways, and were of great importance in the Chinese medicine history. It' s important to creat the Guangdong Chinese Medicine Doctors Directory in Qing Dynasty, and thus to perfect the doctors' stories and offer reference to the study of the history of Lingnan Chinese medicine doctors.This study collected broadly the relevant imformation about Guangdong Chinese medicine doctors in Qing Dynasty with chorographies, original literatures, megazines, indexes, following schlors' studies and online checks as the clues. Ling Nan Yi Zheng lue(A Summary on Lingnan Herbalists), Guang Dong Zhong Yi Yu Ying Cai(Guangdong Chinese Medicine Cultivates Outstanding Talenta), Ling Nan Zhong Yi(Lingnan Herbalists), Zhong Yi Ren Ming Ci Dian(People' s Name Dictionary of Chinese Medicine), Zhong Yi Ren Wu Ci Dian(Chinese Medicine Figures Dictionary), and Zhong Guo Fen Sheng Yi Ji Kao(Chinese Medicine Record by Provines in China) were consulted and had offered the clues to check the chorographies and the original literatures for the verification and supplement of those imformation. Then all of the imformation was summed up, the doctors' stories were introduced in a form listing their family names, given names, years of birth and death, native places, academic schools, literatures, medicine activities, academic thoughts and achievements.During the collecting and neatening of the imformation, some wrong materials were corrected while some of the stories, academic thoughts and origins of the doctors were added. Doctors were better collected, even more materials were offered with more accuracy, and thus the Guangdong Chinese medicine Doctors Directory in Qing Dynasty was created.Through the collection of the doctors' medical activities, those famous doctors who had contributed quite a lot to the development of Lingnan medicine were concentrated on to be introduced, and to be evaluated justly about their academic values and importance. With the help of an analysis on those doctors' birth places, disciplines, schools, literatures and their commonness, the chracteristics of Guangdong medicine in Qing dynasty was presented and the general picture of its development was outlined.Qing dynasty was an vital period in Lingnan medical history. With the development in society, politics, economy and culture of Guangdong, the Lingnan Chinese medicine had made great progress in learning and reached a high level in the areas ranging from basic theories to various clinical branches. Further more, such clinical branches as internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatry, bone injuries, and acupuncture and moxibustion had formed their own systems in theory, method, formula and medication, unique academic schools with different disciplines of Lingnan docotors had emerged, along with lots of renowned doctors and some new academic schools, aboundant medicine literatures had been created, and the exchange between Chinese and foreign countries were unparalleled active.Containing 471 doctors, the Guangdong Chinese medicine Doctors Directory in Qing Dynasty is a reference work to introduce the Guangdong Chinese medicine doctors in Qing dynasty. And as restricted by paper pages, only part of the content has been attached to be consulted by readers.