Is Sun Simiao a medical saint or a medical saint?

Sun Simiao (54 1-682, which is controversial, please refer to the catalogue of "the debate of the ages" in the article) and Jing Zhao Huayuan (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province) are said to be descendants of Dr. Chu Quyuan, a medical scientist and Taoist in the Tang Dynasty, and are honored as "the king of medicine" by later generations.

In the seventh year of the Western Wei Dynasty (54 1), Sun Simiao was born into a poor peasant family. He was brilliant since he was a child, and when he grew up, he began to like Taoism and Zhuangzi's theory. In the first year of Emperor Yangdi's reign (58 1), Sun Simiao lived in seclusion in Zhong Nanshan, Shaanxi Province, and gradually gained a high reputation.

Sun Simiao attached great importance to the folk medical experience, accumulated interviews and recorded them in time, and finally finished his book "A Thousand Daughters". After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao accepted the invitation of the imperial court and cooperated with it to carry out medical activities. Tang Gaozong celebrated for four years and completed the world's first national pharmacopoeia, Tang Xin Materia Medica.

Medical saints and medical saints are:

1, Dr. Zhang Zhongjing

Zhang Zhongjing was born in Nieyang County, Nanyang, Eastern Han Dynasty. A famous doctor in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was honored as a medical sage by later generations. Zhang Zhongjing extensively collected medical prescriptions and wrote the masterpiece Treatise on Febrile Diseases handed down from ancient times. The established principle of syndrome differentiation and treatment is the basic principle of TCM clinic and the soul of TCM. In the aspect of prescription science, Treatise on Febrile Diseases has also made great contributions, creating many dosage forms and recording a large number of effective prescriptions.

2. Medicine St. Li Shizhen

Li Shizhen, a native of Qichun County, Hubei Province, was a famous physician in Ming Dynasty. After his death, he was named "Wen Linlang" by the Ming court. 27 years of cold and heat, three revisions. In the eighteenth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty (1590), he completed the magnum opus Compendium of Materia Medica with words of 1920000, which is known as the "Dictionary of Oriental Pharmacology".

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sun Simiao