Huang Ti (黃帝/黄帝): the Yellow Emperor
Huang Ti (黃帝/黄帝), drawing published in Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties), 1987
To this legendary emperor is attributed the earliest known Chinese medical writing, Huang-ti Nei ching (The Canon of Internal Medicine). This work consists of two treatises, one a dialogue about living matter between Huang Ti 黃帝/黄帝 and his minister Qibo 岐伯, and the other a description of medical physiology, anatomy, and acupuncture. This famous classic is considered the bible of traditional Chinese medicine, but its true authorship is unknown.
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Zhongguo li dai ming yi tu zhuan, (Biographies and portraits of Chinese famous doctors in past dynasties) 1987