View source for Zhang Zhongjing

{{chinese-name|[[Zhang (surname)|Zhang]] (張)}}
{{Infobox Person
  |name   = '''Zhang Zhongjing'''
  |birth_date = 150CE (approx.)
  |image     = zhangzhong.jpg
  |occupation     =  [[Physician]]
  |caption = 張仲景
}}
{{ChineseText}}
[[Image:Zhangzhongjing.jpg|thumb|200px|Zhang Zhongjing]]

'''Zhang Zhongjing''' ({{zh|s=张仲景|t=張仲景|p=Zhāng Zhōngjǐng|w=Chang Chung Ching}}), formal name '''Zhang Ji''' ({{zh|s=张机|t=張機|p=Zhāng Jī}}, [[150]] - [[219]]), was an [[Eastern Han]] physician and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Eastern Han. He established medication principles and summed up the medicinal experience up until that time, thus making a great contribution to the development of [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]]. 

==Biography==
Though extremely well known in modern [[Chinese medicine]] and considered one of the finest Chinese physicians in history, very little is known about his life.<ref>{{Harvnb|Shāng Hán Lùn: On Cold Damage, Translation & Commentaries. Craig Mitchell, Féng Yè and Nigel Wiseman|1999|p=2}}</ref> According to later sources he was born in  [[Nanyang, Henan|Nanyang]], held an official position in [[Changsha]] and lived from approximately 150 to 219 AD.<ref>{{Harvnb|Mitchell et al.|1999|p=2}}</ref> Exact dates regarding his birth, death and works vary, but an upper limit of 220AD is generally accepted.<ref>See {{Harvnb|Mitchell et al.|1999|p=1-2}}, {{Harvnb|Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide. Michael Loewe (ed.)|1993|p=197}} for discussion.</ref>

During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territories, many people were infected with febrile disease. Zhang's family was no exception. He learned medicine by studying from his townsfellow [[Zhang Bozu]], assimilating from previous medicinal literature, and collecting many prescriptions elsewhere, finally writing the medical masterpiece ''Shanghan Zabing Lun''' ({{zh|t=傷寒雜病論|p=Shānghán Zábìng Lùn}}, lit. "''Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases''"). Shortly after its publication the book was lost during the wars that ravaged China during the period of the [[Three Kingdoms]]. Due to Zhang's contribution to Traditional Chinese medicine he is often regarded as the sage of Chinese medicine.

Zhang's masterpiece, ''Shanghan Zabing Lun'', was collected by later people and edited by his disciple Wang Shuhe into two books, namely the ''[[Shang Han Lun]]'' (傷寒論, lit. "''On Cold Damage''"), which was a discourse on how to treat epidemic infectious diseases causing fevers prevalent during his era, and the other, highly influential doctrine ''[[Jinkui Yaolue]]'' (金櫃要略, lit. "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer"), a compendium of his clinical experiences. These two texts have been heavily reconstructed several times up to the modern era. <ref> See {{Harvnb|Mitchell et al.|1999|p=1-4}}.</ref> Revered for authoring the Shāng Hán Zá Bìng Lùn, Zhang Zhongjing is considered to have founded the Cold Damage or "Cold Disease" school of [[Chinese medicine]] and is widely considered the seminal expert to this day.

==See also==
* [[Hua Tuo]]
* ''[[Compendium of Materia Medica]]''
* [[Huang Di]] 
* [[Chinese herbology]]
* [[Kampo|Traditional Japanese medicine]] (Kampo)
* [[Traditional Korean medicine]]
* [[Li Shizhen]]
* [[Song Ci]]
* [[List of Chinese physicians]]
* [[Traditional Chinese medicine]]

==References==
<references />

{{People of the end of Han Dynasty|state=collapsed}}
{{Ancient anaesthesia-footer}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Zhang, Zhongjing}}

[[Category:Traditional Chinese medicine]]
[[Category:People in alternative medicine]]
[[Category:Herbalists]]
[[Category:Han Dynasty people]]
[[Category:Pharmacologists]]
[[Category:Ancient Chinese physicians]]

[[es:Zhang Zhong Jing]]
[[ja:張機]]
[[vi:Trương Trọng Cảnh]]
[[zh:張仲景]]
[[Category:2Fix]]