Chunyu Yi, Ancient Chinese Physician
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Chunyu Yi, Ancient Chinese Physician
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Chunyu Yi (216-150 BC) was a physician at the beginning of the Former Han period. He loved medicine from his early years and obtained an education by Gongcheng Yangqing and Gongsun Guang. His main field was the analysis of the pulse, but he resorted to all different methods of healing, like broths, pills, herbs, acupuncture, cooling, moxibustion, and so on. He is said to have even been able to revive the death, but he was strictly opposed of the Daoists' methods of product concoctions of the five minerals in order to achieve immortality. During the reign of Emperor Wen (180-157 BCE) he was incarcerated because he refused to heal the rich and mighty. He was only released when his daughter Chunyu Tiying sold herself as a state slave (guanbi). Chunyi Yi compiled a handbook of 25 examination methods, the Zhenji that included case studies in the shape of a dialoge between doctor and patient. It has survived in the history Shiji and is the earliest Chinese document on medical care.
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