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SUN SIMIAO
Author of the Earliest Chinese Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice
by Subhuti Dharmananda, Ph.D., Director, Institute for Traditional Medicine, Portland, Oregon
Sun Simiao is one of the most, if not the most, interesting figures in the history of Chinese medicine.
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It is not too difficult to support this judgment, even though biographical details of this Tang physician are only fragmentary. In his lifetime, Sun Simiao was a famous clinician and alchemist; to posterity, he left voluminous formularies that have been influential until the present.
- Paul Unschuld,
Medicine in China: Historical Artifacts and Images
Sun Simiao was born in the 6th Century, around A.D., at the beginning of the short-lived Sui Dynasty ( A.D.) and just prior to the unification of north and south China ( A.D.).
He carried out his medical work and writing during the Tang Dynasty ( A.D.) and died in A.D., having completed two volume works on