Biography of Contemporary Famous TCM Practitioners in China / 5000Handwritten Secret Formulas

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Excerpt: Ding Jingxing's Experience Formula - 5 Prescriptions
① For acute hepatitis with jaundice and elevated ALT, when the condition is in its early stage with sufficient vital energy, damp-heat accumulates in the liver and gallbladder. Treatment should focus on clearing damp-heat, detoxifying, and cooling blood.
Basic Formula: Bupleurum, Gentiana, Rheum, Sophora, Polygonum, Forsythia, Dandelion, Atractylodes, Poria, Euonymus, and Rubia.
Add Coptis and Pinellia if there is bitter taste, dry throat, or nausea.
Add Citrus Peel and Bambusoideae if there is vomiting due to heat stagnation.
Add Plantago, Plantago asiatica, Acorus, and Talc if there is difficulty urinating.
Add Anhydrous Epsom Salt or increase the dosage of Rheum if there is poor bowel movement.
Add Moutan and Poria if there is epistaxis or gingival bleeding.
② When hepatitis has persisted for a longer period, ALT has decreased, albumin has dropped, globulin has increased, and flocculation or antigen-antibody complexes appear, the damp-heat symptom is no longer prominent, but yin and blood are often damaged. Treatment should focus on nourishing blood, softening the liver, and promoting blood circulation and collateral unblocking.
Basic Formula: Angelica, Ligusticum, Moutan, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Radix Paeoniae Alba, Leonurus, and Cnidium.
This stage often presents with abdominal distension and pain in both flanks.
For postprandial distension: Add Tangerine Peel, Apricot Kernel, Pinellia Curcumae, or Shen Qu.
For afternoon distension: Add Atractylodes, Poria, Coix Seed, or.
For persistent distension: Add Curcumae, Coix Seed, or Angelica Sinensis, Euonymus.
For costal pain:
- If distension-pain is primary with fixed points: Add Gentiana, Scutellaria baicalensis, or Chrysanthemum, Polygonum.
- If dull pain is primary and worsens after exertion: Add Goji Berry, Sandalwood, or Angelica, Paeoniae Alba.
- If wandering pain is primary: Add Orange Leaf, Polygonum, or Bupleurum, Pawpaw.
- If pricking pain is primary with fixed points: Add Polygonum, Carthamus, or Fructus Linderae, Myrrh.
③ With prolonged liver disease, blood-heat and yin injury manifest as signs of liver-kidney yin deficiency. Treatment should focus on nourishing yin, clearing heat, cooling blood, and promoting blood circulation.
Basic Formula: Pueraria, Rehmannia, Angelica, Radix Paeoniae Rubra, Salvia, Moutan, Lindera, North American Poria, Fructus Mume, and Licorice.
Add Magnetite and Acorus if there is deafness or tinnitus.
Add Cuscuta chinensis, Polygonum multiflorum, or Dipsacus and Ziziphus if there is lower back pain or weakness.
Add Polygonum multiflorum, Epimedium if there is insomnia and frequent dreams.
Add Asparagus and Polygala if there is restlessness and insomnia.
Add Bornite and Ostrea if there is five-palm heat.
Add Pawpaw and Isatis indigotica if there is heel pain.
Add Mume and Pawpaw if there is poor appetite or aversion to greasy food.
④ In advanced liver disease, jaundice and ALT have gradually recovered. Some patients may experience low red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet counts. Common symptoms include yin deficiency with internal heat, spleen deficiency with qi weakness, and qi stagnation with blood stasis.
On the basis of syndrome differentiation and treatment, add Tortoise Shell and Dipsacus to nourish yin;
or add Tribulus terrestris and Rehmannia to tonify yang;
or add Polygonum multiflorum and Fructus Mume to balance yin and yang;
or add Collagenum Asini, Collagenum Cervi, and Collagenum Cornuti to nourish yin and blood, and tonify yang to generate essence. These treatments often yield good results.
⑤ One ox head, after hair removal, is boiled with water to form gelatin. Take 2–3 spoons daily at breakfast, lunch, and dinner for significant improvement in red blood cell, white blood cell, and platelet counts (use with caution if serum cholesterol and other lipids are elevated).
Ding Jihua, also known as Ding Yi, male, Han nationality, native of Fenghua County, Zhejiang Province, was born on March 16, 1932, in Shanghai. After the July 7 Incident in 1937, Ding moved with his father to Chongqing in the rear areas. During the eight years of the War of Resistance, he studied in Chongqing. After the liberation, he settled in Nanjing with his father and studied there until 1950. During the patriotic fervor of the Korean War, he put down his pen for the sword and was trained by Harbin Medical University to cross the Yalu River to fight in Korea. He graduated from Harbin Medical University in 1954. Due to the defeat of the US in the Korean War, he stayed at the university to teach after graduation. From 1955 to 1970, he served as a resident physician, chief resident physician, and attending physician in the surgical department of Harbin Medical University Hospital. During this period, he engaged in clinical and teaching work in general surgery, orthopedics, neurosurgery, thoracic surgery, and burn surgery. He also studied the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture twice and followed the medical practice of the renowned TCM master Zhong Yuheng for several years. During the mid-Cultural Revolution, he was forced to leave his alma mater and was transferred to a small third-line aircraft manufacturing plant in Jiangxi for medical practice. After the fall of the "Gang of Four," he was soon transferred to the Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing. During his tenure there, he systematically studied classic works such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon, the Essentials from the Golden Cabinet, and the Compendium of Materia Medica. He benefited greatly from seeking advice from TCM teachers whenever he encountered difficult cases, laying a solid foundation for clinical practice and further research in TCM theory.
Due to his past clinical experience in orthopedics and long-term work in emergency surgery, he has clinical experience in trauma surgery. Therefore, in 1983, he was transferred to the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine. On one hand, he engaged in scientific research management, and on the other hand, conducted theoretical research in TCM, allowing him to delve into ancient literature and systematically study the classic works of TCM and the literature of orthopedics and traumatology.
During his time at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Ding recognized that TCM orthopedics has a long history and possesses a relatively independent theoretical system. There are numerous schools in TCM orthopedics, with rich clinical experience. If these could be collected, analyzed, summarized, and promoted, the cause of TCM orthopedics could be better inherited and developed.
Ding believes that traditional Chinese medicine has a complete theoretical system. Through medical practice and research, he argues that humans and trauma are like twins, and therefore, since the dawn of humanity, the treatment of injuries has preceded other medical specialties. In the long history of treating injuries, TCM orthopedics, though part of TCM, has its own inherent and unique patterns in etiology, pathogenesis, syndrome differentiation, and treatment. Even in basic theory, it has its own corresponding theoretical system. He highly advocates the TCM theory that "the kidney governs the bones." Bone growth, metabolism, fracture healing, and the prevention and treatment of bone diseases are all influenced by the kidney. This is not only proven by thousands of years of clinical practice but also supported by modern scientific animal experiments, biochemical analysis, and endocrine research. He has also conducted theoretical research on "the kidney governs the bones" and animal experiments. In 1984, he supervised graduate students in an experimental study on "using tonifying-kidney herbs to treat bone and joint diseases," which proved that the kidney indeed plays a dominant role in bones. Therefore, he has written numerous papers on "the kidney governs the bones," which have been published in journals such as the Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, the Journal of Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology, the Journal of Chinese Bone and Joint Injury, the Chinese Medical Journal (Hong Kong), and the Modern Orthopedics (USA). He has actively promoted this theory at domestic and international academic conferences. He firmly believes that this theory will eventually be accepted by Western medical peers both in China and abroad.
Starting in 1983, he organized seven national academic conferences: the "Symposium of Renowned TCM Orthopedists," the "Theoretical Symposium of TCM Orthopedics," the "Experience Exchange Meeting of TCM Orthopedic Manipulation," the "Experience Exchange Meeting of TCM Orthopedic Herbal Treatment," the "Experience Exchange Meeting of External Fixators," the "Research Association of Spine and Internal Organs," and the "Academic Conference on Low Back and Leg Pain." Through these exchanges, the academic activities of the orthopedics and traumatology community were revitalized, and the academic level of the Institute was also raised. To learn from the strengths of others and reform the unreasonable talent and knowledge structure of the institute, he invited 16 renowned TCM orthopedic experts as visiting professors of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine to assist in scientific research, teaching, and medical work.
Due to the relatively short history of the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology and the recent establishment of the TCM orthopedics team in the country, much basic work remains to be completed gradually. Therefore, he plans to complete several foundational tasks within a few years:
① Collect and organize the study of ancient medical books in orthopedics and traumatology;
② Summarize and organize the various schools of thought in TCM orthopedics;
③ Compile a professional textbook or reference book on the basics of TCM orthopedics with colleagues across the country;
④ Summarize and organize the academic thoughts and technical expertise of modern TCM orthopedic schools;
⑤ Actively promote the establishment of the National Association of TCM Orthopedics and Traumatology;
⑥ Seek approval from the Ministry of Health and relevant central authorities to transform the internal publication Research on Orthopedics and Traumatology into a formally published professional journal, renaming it Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology.
After more than five years of effort, the following works were published:
- Compendium of TCM Orthopedics and Basics of TCM Orthopedics by the Ancient Books Publishing House;
- Fundamentals of TCM Orthopedics, Various Schools of TCM Orthopedics, and Essentials of TCM Orthopedics Through the Ages by the People's Health Publishing House;
- The National Association of TCM Orthopedics and Traumatology was established in 1986;
- Research on Orthopedics and Traumatology was approved by the Ministry of Health and relevant central authorities as a formal journal and renamed Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology for public circulation in 1987;
- "Research on Ancient Medical Literature of TCM Orthopedics" was designated as a winning research project by the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine in 1989.
Currently, Ding is responsible for the editorial work of Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology and dedicates himself to researching the academic thoughts and technical expertise of various schools of TCM orthopedics in China, exploring the factors contributing to the rise and fall of these schools in the context of the country. To organize, rescue, and promote the various schools of modern TCM orthopedics, he is writing Thirty Schools of Modern TCM Orthopedics. As this research work has completed nearly 80% of its survey and organization, it was officially approved as a winning project by the National Natural Science Foundation in 1990 and published by the China Medical Science and Technology Press in late 1990 as Essentials of Modern TCM Orthopedic Schools.
Major papers include:
- "Treatment of Orthopedic Diseases by TCM and Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine" (Chinese Medical Journal (Hong Kong), 1984);
- "Characteristics and Development of TCM Orthopedics" (Modern Orthopedics (USA), 1986);
- "Exploration of 'The Kidney Governs the Bones'" (Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine, 1986);
- "The Tonifying-Kidney School" (Journal of Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology, 1988);
- "Research on Using Tonifying-Kidney Herbs to Treat Bone and Joint Diseases" (Journal of Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology, 1989).
Former Positions:
Attending Physician and Lecturer in Surgery at Harbin Medical University Hospital;
Deputy Director of Surgery, Director of Medical Affairs, and Deputy Chief Physician at the Guang'anmen Hospital of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine;
Director, Head, and Chief Physician at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine;
Professor at Beijing Acupuncture and Orthopedics College of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Current Positions:
Researcher and Director of the Research Office at the Institute of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine;
Associate Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Orthopedics and Traumatology;
Honorary Researcher at the Higher Medical Education Institute of the USA;
Visiting Professor at Shenzhen University;
Member of the Rehabilitation Association of the China Disabled Persons' Federation;
Advisory Committee Member of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Society of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Due to his active promotion of TCM to international friends, Ding has been warmly welcomed by his foreign peers. In 1986, he was appointed as an Honorary Researcher by the Higher Medical Education Institute of the USA, and in 1987, he was included in the World of Cambridge, UK, as an accomplished individual.
Three-Character Names
Gan Zuowang, male, born in 1912, from Jinshan, Shanghai. Currently a professor at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and chief physician at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He also serves as the Director of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Society of the Chinese Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Director of the Orthopedics and Traumatology Society of Jiangsu Province, among other roles, and is one of the founders of TCM orthopedics and traumatology.
Gan Zuowang studied classical Chinese at home from 1917 to 1929. In 1929, he began learning TCM from the renowned physician Zhong Daosheng in Xitang, Jiashan, Zhejiang Province. He started practicing medicine in 1933 and has worked at the Jiangsu Provincial Research Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine since 1956. He has been working at Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and its affiliated hospital since 1960.