Sun Simiao was a famous traditional Chinese medicine

Traditional Chinese medicine

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 doctor of the Sui

Sui

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 and Tang dynasty

Tang Dynasty

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. He was titled as China

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's King of Medicine (药王, Yaowang) for his significant contributions to Chinese medicine and tremendous care to his patients.

Sun wrote two books - Beiji Qian Jin Yao Fang ("Essential Formulas for Emergencies [Worth] a Thousand Pieces of Gold") and Qian Jin Yi Fang ("Supplement to the Formulas of a Thousand Gold Worth") - that were both milestones in the history of Chinese medicine, summarizing pre Tang Dynasty

Tang Dynasty

The Tang Dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China preceded by the Sui Dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. It was founded by the Li family, who seized power during the decline and collapse of the Sui Empire...

 medicine. The former listed about 5300 recipes for medicines, and the latter 2000. He also put forth the “Thirteen measures to keep health”, which claimed that actions like touching hair, rolling eyes, walking, and shaking heads improved health.

Apart from this, he is known for the text "On the Absolute Sincerity of Great Physicians," often called "the Chinese Hippocratic Oath

Hippocratic Oath

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," which is still required reading for Chinese physicians:

A Great Physician should not pay attention to status, wealth or
age; neither should he question whether the particular person
is attractive or unattractive, whether he is an enemy or friend,
whether he is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether he is
uneducated or educated. He should meet everyone on equal
grounds. He should always act as if he were thinking of his
close relatives.

External links

• Sun Simiao: Author of the Earliest Chinese Encyclopedia for Clinical Practice — Subhuti Dharmananda