Sun Simiao
Male, Deceased Person
0581 – 0682
Who was Sun Simiao?
Sun Simiao was a famous traditional Chinese medicine doctor of the Sui and Tang dynasty. He was titled as China's King of Medicine for his significant contributions to Chinese medicine and tremendous care to his patients.
Sun wrote two books - Beiji Qian Jin Yao Fang and Qian Jin Yi Fang - that were both milestones in the history of Chinese medicine, summarizing pre Tang Dynasty 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," which comes from the first chapter of the first of the above mentioned two books. This portion of the book is still a required reading for Chinese physicians. The following is an excerpt of the text:
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