Bian Que

Bian Que (Chinese扁鹊/扁鹊, Pinyin Biǎn Què, W.-G. Pien ch'üeh, also: Qiao Bian and Pien Ch'iao; 500 BC) was born in present-day Renqiu in Hebei. The name of Bian Que means " bird". His real name was Qin Yueren (Chinese秦越 人, Pinyin Qín Yuèrén ), his medical teachers to have been Chang Sangjun. The work of Bian Que is the other sizes of antiquity (eg Hippocrates ea) equal and characteristic to this day; However, he lived at least a generation of Hippocrates in the "Spring and Autumn Period " of the Zhou Dynasty. His works were largely Narrated by Sima Qian in his recording " Shiji ".

Bian Que is the first to describe the up to now taught in universities of China " four diagnostic methods " of Chinese medicine ( TCM - here to distinguish it from the medicine of ancient Greece (eg Hippocrates ea) ). They include the Chinese pulse and tongue diagnosis.

Probably due to its extraordinary revolutionary for ancient China diagnostic skills him miraculous powers were (even the transplantation of the heart) attributed. His empirical research results were as still quite common, not handed down in Asia as a flow chart or table, but as a story or poem. To clarify its indication and his level of knowledge about the natural history of a disease process, the following fictional case report:

This essay was in later years reflected in the Shang Han Lun (Eng. fever treatment) by Zhang Zhong Jing (famous physician and scientist of the Han Dynasty ).

In honor of Bian Que, the temple was built during the Han Dynasty, the Queshan. It is located in Shentou ( about 25 kilometers west of Neiqiu ).