Wang Fengchun Academic Thinking, Research, And Clinical Experience

Preface: Mr. Wang Fengchun was the one of four greatest physicians of Chinese medicine in Beijing. Mr. Wang was a well-known clinician in China because he was always able to cure those severe and lingering diseases. At the same time Mr. Wang trained a large number of outstanding doctors of traditional Chinese medicine. Mr. Wang played a key role in forming modern Chinese medicine in the period of the Guomin governments. However, the literature and records of Mr. Wang were very few. So it's well worth investigating and studying intensively. Purpose: 1. To investigate the biographical sketch of Mr. Wang Fengchun. 2. To trace Mr. Wang Fengchun's academic origin from his teachers and to invest his extraordinary contributions to the education of traditional Chinese medicine. 3.To research Mr. Wang Fengchun's academic thoughts and clinical experiences. 4. To discuss the relation of academic and clinical thoughts between Wang Fengchun and his disciples. Method: Analyze and discuss medical records of Mr. Wang Fengchun and the pertinent literature systematically and methodically. Content: I. The biographical sketch of Wang Fengchun in brief Mr. Wang Fengchun (1884~1949) was born in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, China. He studied medical science hard and read extensively in his whole life. He practiced medicine forty years in Beijing and always had good curative effects. When he treated a disease, he laid stress on the concept of the entirety and the determination of treatment based in pathogenesis obtained through differentiation of symptoms and signs. Mr. Wang contributed much time and energy to the cause of traditional Chinese medicine. He established the Beijing Employment Branch of National Medicine in 1938, and a Seminar of National Medicine near Tiananmen in 1942. Also in 1939, he raised money to create the Beijing Monthly Publication of Medicine, and wrote articles by himself. Mr. Wang was too busy to compose many medicinal contributions, so nowadays there were only six treatises written by himself and the Po Lu Medical Records edited by Mr. Wang's disciples for us to trace and research. II. The academic origin from Wang Fengchun's teachers When Mr. Wang was ten years old, he followed the famous physician Mr. Ai Buchan in Suzhou. At that time he had cultivated the profound medical groundwork. And then in twenties, Mr. Wang came to Beijing and followed Mr. Li Jun who was a doctor to the emperor. Mr. Li Jun advocated the combination of traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine and he was good at prescribing fresh herbs such as lotus leaves to stimulate the gastric qi. Mr. Li Jun had great effect of academic and clinical thoughts on Mr. Wang. III. Mr. Wang Fengchun's extraordinary contributions to the education of traditional Chinese medicine Mr. Wang promoted the in-service education vigorously all his life. He established the Beiping College of National Medicine, the Beijing Employment Branch of National Medicine, the Seminar of National Medicine and the Beijing Monthly Publication of Medicine successively. He brought up large quantities of excellent personnel of traditional Chinese medicine, and made great contributions to development of the traditional Chinese medicine cause. IV. Academic thoughts and clinical experiences of Mr. Wang Fengchun Mr. Wang advocated the combination of traditional Chinese medicine with Western medicine. He paid great attention to postnatal basis of the spleen and the stomach, and thought highly of the food prohibition. He was an expert in treating damp-warm diseases. For treatment, he stressed regulating descending and ascending of qi mechanism. He thought that only through tri-energizer as qi passage, can the function of ascending and descending, taking in and giving off be normal. When he was treating gynaecopathia, he thought the regulation of mentruation was the most important .In order to promote the blood circulation and remove meridian obstructions, he liked to use many pairs of Chinese drugs to facilitate qi flow. He was good at prescribing fresh herbs,...