Dengzhou ( simplified Chinese : 邓州 ; traditional Chinese : 鄧州 ; pinyin : Dèngzhōu ), formerly Deng County ( 邓县 ; 鄧縣 ; Dèng Xiàn ), is a city in Nanyang, Henan , China. It has an area of 2,294 km (886 sq mi) and a population of 1,500,000. The urban area is 35 km, and the urban population is 300,000. The city is located in the southwest of Henan province, adjacent to the borders between Henan, Hubei and Shaanxi . It geometrically lies in the center of the triangle of Zhengzhou , Wuhan and Xi'an , with equal distance to any of these three cities.
12-466: It is a city with a long cultural history in China. Historical figures from Dengzhou include Zhang Zhongjing (ancient Chinese medicine practitioner), Han Yu (poet), Kou Zhun (senator of Song dynasty), Fan Zhongyan (writer), Yao Xueyin (modern writer), and Zhou Daxin (modern writer). As 2012, this city is divided to 3 subdistricts, 13 towns and 11 townships. Dengzhou's economy is largely based on
24-541: A main discourse on internal diseases. These two texts have been heavily reconstructed several times up to the modern era. Revered for authoring the Shāng Hán Zá Bìng Lùn, Zhang Zhongjing is considered to have founded the Cold Damage or "Cold Disease" school of Chinese medicine and is widely considered the seminal expert to this day. Zhang Zhongjing left behind Zhang Zhongjing Liu Wei Di Huang Wan . There
36-544: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Jingui Yaolue Jingui Yaolüe ( simplified Chinese : 金匮要略 ; traditional Chinese : 金匱要略 ; pinyin : Jīnguì Yàolüè ), Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet is a classic clinical book of traditional Chinese medicine written by Zhang Zhongjing (150-219) at the end of the Eastern Han dynasty and was first published in
48-648: Is also the Medical Sage Temple(医圣祠) in Nanyang , which is a place to commemorate Zhang Zhongjing. Zhang Zhongjing's treatment of diseases has unique effects. The key points of his medication are to be precise, concise, and straight to the condition. Unlike modern Chinese medicine, which uses Western medicine's way of thinking and logic to treat diseases. Zhang Zhongjing is a role model and model of learning for later generations of Chinese medicine. This biographical article related to medicine in China
60-582: The Northern Song dynasty . The oldest known extant copy, believed to be bibliographically closest to the original, dates to 1340 and was printed with woodcuts in the early Ming dynasty . There is an annotated English translation by Luo Xiwen, with three hundred modern case histories titled: Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber with 300 Cases. First published in 1995 by New World Press. This pharmacology -related article
72-652: The Song Dynasty ( 宋 ) into two books, namely for the former, the Shang Han Lun ( 傷寒論 , lit. " On Cold Damage "), which was mainly on a discourse on how to treat epidemic infectious diseases causing fevers prevalent during his era, and the latter, the Jingui Yaolue ( 金櫃要略 , lit. "Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer"), a compendium of various clinical experiences which was regarded as
84-479: The Tuan River. Dengzhou No.1 High School is the most popular high school of the city. Nanyang No.4 Teachers College is the only college of the city licensed to issue certified educational diplomas to students. This Henan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zhang Zhongjing Zhang Zhongjing ( Chinese : 張仲景 ; 150–219), formal name Zhang Ji ( 張機 ),
96-524: The book was lost during the wars that ravaged China during the period of the Three Kingdoms . Because of Zhang's contribution to traditional Chinese medicine, he is often regarded as the sage of Chinese medicine. Zhang's masterpiece, Shanghan Zabing Lun , was collected and organised later by physicians, notably Wang Shuhe ( 王叔和 ) from the Jin Dynasty ( 晋 ) and various court physicians during
108-643: The finest Chinese physicians in history, very little is known about his life. According to later sources, he was born in Nanyang , held an official position in Changsha and lived from approximately 150 to 219 AD. Exact dates regarding his birth, death and works vary, but an upper limit of 220 AD is generally accepted. It is also speculated that he created jiaozi ( 餃子 - gyoza / dumplings /potstickers) to help people with frostbitten ears. During his time, with warlords fighting for their own territories, many people fell victim to infectious diseases. Zhang's family
120-402: The production of agricultural products. Farmers grow crops such as wheat , cotton , maize , sesame , peanuts , yellow beans , peppers and tobacco . The city's primary industries include cigarette-packing, food processing and sculpture. Sightseeing Lan Xiu Ting (Pavilion with picturesque view), Pagoda of Fu Sheng, relics of ancient city wall and the recently built touring area along
132-489: Was a Chinese pharmacologist, physician, inventor, and writer of the Eastern Han dynasty and one of the most eminent Chinese physicians during the later years of the Han dynasty. He established medication principles and summed up the medicinal experience until that time, thus making a considerable contribution to the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine . Though well known in modern Chinese medicine and considered one of
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#1732773059538144-493: Was no exception. He learned medicine by studying from his towns fellow and later teacher Zhang Bozu , assimilating from previous medicinal literature such as Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic Huangdi Neijing ( 黄帝内經 ), and collecting many prescriptions elsewhere, finally writing the medical masterpiece Shanghan Zabing Lun ( Chinese : 傷寒雜病論 ; pinyin : Shānghán Zábìng Lùn , lit. " Treatise on Cold Pathogenic and Miscellaneous Diseases "). Shortly after its publication,
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