Professor Peng Jian
Professor Peng Jian was born in Hunan Province in 1948. He did not begin his study of medicine until his early 20s, when he was apprenticed to his uncle Peng Chongrang. His uncle was a professor of Chinese medicine (this was during the "Western [medicine] studies Chinese [medicine]" period) at the Xiangya Medical College, which was founded by Yale University in the early 1900s. At his uncle's insistence, his education began with the memorization of the Eastern-Han dynasty medical text On Cold Damage (《伤寒论》), after which his uncle allowed him to follow him in the clinic. In Peng Chongrang's words:
"Why did I require that you assiduously study On Cold Damage when you first started to study medicine? In the words of Lu Jiuzhi: 'To start one's study with Cold Damage is to make the beginning difficult and later study easy. Starting with miscellaneous diseases, on the other hand, makes the beginning easy and later study difficult.' In the study of any new discipline, it is one's first impressions that are the strongest! [...] By first letting On Cold Damage occupy your mental space, and allowing pattern differentiation to deeply root itself in your mind, you were given a firm grasp of the core and soul of Chinese medicine."
In 1979 he was accepted as a graduate student majoring in Medical History, studying under Zhou Yimou at the Hunan University of TCM. After graduation he was retained by the University to teach medical history, while continuing to see patients, putting him in the unusual position of being both a well-loved teacher and a busy clinician.
Professor Wei Jia
Prof Wei Jia was born in Jiangxi Province in 1933. He started learning medicine from his uncle at the age of 14, and in 1958 began work as a teacher at the Jiangxi College of TCM, a position he only recently retired from.
He has dedicated his entire career to the field of acumoxa, a path he described in his brief autobiographical essay 《我的针灸之路》("My Journey with Needle and Moxa") as one fraught with challenges. The first was the emphasis placed on Western medicine that he encountered during his first formal medical education in 1954; the second was the discouragement that he received for choosing acumoxa over internal (herbal) medicine; the third was his realization in the 60's that his clinical results in the city were not as good as they had been in the countryside; and the fourth was the disaster that the cultural revolution wrought on higher education and the medical profession.
In spite of these challenges, he persevered, and in addition to numerous government, professional, and honorable positions, he was the chief-editor of the national textbook 《各家针灸学说》("Theories of Different Acupuncture and Moxibustion Schools"), created the subject “无创痛穴疗学” （"Painless Point Therapeutics"), and published 《千金针灸临床类编》("Classified Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion Content from Thousand Pieces of Gold"), as well as countless academic articles.
Dr. Ouyang Weiquan
Dr. Ouyang is a doctor of Chinese herbal medicine in the dermatology department of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of TCM. He is a disciple of the renowned Chinese medicine physician Li Ke, and of the nationally recognized herbal medicine expert Li Zhenhua. In the clinic Dr. Ouyang devotes himself to the use of the classical formulas of On Cold Damage and the six channel diagnostic method. He excels in the usage of classical formulas in dermatology as well as challenging diseases from other departments such as acute fever, wheezing and cough, gastroenterological disease, and impediment pattern. He is the author of the clinical text《伤寒论六经辨证与方证新探——经方辨治皮肤病心法》》(New Exploration of the 6-channel Diagnosis and Formula-patterns in ‘On Cold Damage’ – Insights and Methodology regarding the use of Classical Formulas in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dermatology), 2013.
Professor Peng Jian was born in Hunan Province in 1948. He did not begin his study of medicine until his early 20s, when he was apprenticed to his uncle Peng Chongrang. His uncle was a professor of Chinese medicine (this was during the "Western [medicine] studies Chinese [medicine]" period) at the Xiangya Medical College, which was founded by Yale University in the early 1900s. At his uncle's insistence, his education began with the memorization of the Eastern-Han dynasty medical text On Cold Damage (《伤寒论》), after which his uncle allowed him to follow him in the clinic. In Peng Chongrang's words:
"Why did I require that you assiduously study On Cold Damage when you first started to study medicine? In the words of Lu Jiuzhi: 'To start one's study with Cold Damage is to make the beginning difficult and later study easy. Starting with miscellaneous diseases, on the other hand, makes the beginning easy and later study difficult.' In the study of any new discipline, it is one's first impressions that are the strongest! [...] By first letting On Cold Damage occupy your mental space, and allowing pattern differentiation to deeply root itself in your mind, you were given a firm grasp of the core and soul of Chinese medicine."
In 1979 he was accepted as a graduate student majoring in Medical History, studying under Zhou Yimou at the Hunan University of TCM. After graduation he was retained by the University to teach medical history, while continuing to see patients, putting him in the unusual position of being both a well-loved teacher and a busy clinician.
Professor Wei Jia
Prof Wei Jia was born in Jiangxi Province in 1933. He started learning medicine from his uncle at the age of 14, and in 1958 began work as a teacher at the Jiangxi College of TCM, a position he only recently retired from.
He has dedicated his entire career to the field of acumoxa, a path he described in his brief autobiographical essay 《我的针灸之路》("My Journey with Needle and Moxa") as one fraught with challenges. The first was the emphasis placed on Western medicine that he encountered during his first formal medical education in 1954; the second was the discouragement that he received for choosing acumoxa over internal (herbal) medicine; the third was his realization in the 60's that his clinical results in the city were not as good as they had been in the countryside; and the fourth was the disaster that the cultural revolution wrought on higher education and the medical profession.
In spite of these challenges, he persevered, and in addition to numerous government, professional, and honorable positions, he was the chief-editor of the national textbook 《各家针灸学说》("Theories of Different Acupuncture and Moxibustion Schools"), created the subject “无创痛穴疗学” （"Painless Point Therapeutics"), and published 《千金针灸临床类编》("Classified Clinical Acupuncture and Moxibustion Content from Thousand Pieces of Gold"), as well as countless academic articles.
Dr. Ouyang Weiquan
Dr. Ouyang is a doctor of Chinese herbal medicine in the dermatology department of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of TCM. He is a disciple of the renowned Chinese medicine physician Li Ke, and of the nationally recognized herbal medicine expert Li Zhenhua. In the clinic Dr. Ouyang devotes himself to the use of the classical formulas of On Cold Damage and the six channel diagnostic method. He excels in the usage of classical formulas in dermatology as well as challenging diseases from other departments such as acute fever, wheezing and cough, gastroenterological disease, and impediment pattern. He is the author of the clinical text《伤寒论六经辨证与方证新探——经方辨治皮肤病心法》》(New Exploration of the 6-channel Diagnosis and Formula-patterns in ‘On Cold Damage’ – Insights and Methodology regarding the use of Classical Formulas in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Dermatology), 2013.