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Fund Items: Special Project of Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (JJ2006-57); Plan of Generalizing One Hundred Achievements during Ten Years by Ministry of Health of the Peoples Republic of China (Second Batch, 2008-15)
Author: WANG Lin-peng (1955–), male, chief physician and professor
Prof. HE Pu-ren, also known as HE Shi-niu or HE Kong-shui, was born in Shigui Village, Laishui County, Hebei Province on May 20, 1926. He was ambitious and present particularly smart and obsession with reading ever since childhood. At the age of 14, he started to learn acupuncture from NIU Ze-hua, a distinguished acupuncturist, and swore to become a compassionate doctor with fine skills. Four years later, following the advice of Dr. NIU, he began to learn YIN’s Ba Gua Zhang (which literally translates into Eight Diagram Palm), and then stepped on a combined study way of medicine and martial arts, which provided him with a solid foundation for the future acupuncture study. In 1956, HE Pu-ren was distributed to Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, thus began his 30-year career as the chief physician of the Acupuncture Department. In 1990, he was nominated as one of the 500 distinguished TCM physicians by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Personnel and State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After that, he had tutored 8 apprentices, 3 postgraduates and hundreds of students, making great contribution to the succession of the culture of traditional Chinese medicine.
Prof. HE always paid much attention to the summary of clinical experience, and enhancing the work efficiency, Based on years of clinical experience, Prof. HE created a unique acupuncture method and extended the indications of acupuncture therapy. He then published books including Acupuncture for Pain, Needles and Needling Technique, Moxibustion and Moxibustion Tools, Clinical Application of Acupuncture Rhymes, Clinical Application of Three Unblocking Acupuncture Methods and Illustrations of Three Unblocking Acupuncture Methods. In 2008, Prof. HE obtained the title of “Inheritance Representative of Traditional Chinese Medicine Intangible Cultural Heritage”. In 2009, he obtained the honorary title of “Traditional Chinese Medicine Masters”. Of 30 masters, he is one of the two acupuncturists, demonstrating the importance of his academic ideas.
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Wang, Lp., Wang, Jx., Xu, Cy. et al. Academic ideas of Chinese medicine master HE Pu-ren. J. Acupunct. Tuina. Sci. 8, 67–69 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11726-010-0067-y
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