2. Preface to “Collected Medical Experiences of Pei Zhengxue”

2. Preface to “Collected Medical Experiences of Pei Zhengxue”

“Collected Medical Experiences of Pei Zhengxue” is about to be published—a valuable work that combines theory with practice. The book is divided into three parts: upper, middle, and lower sections, totaling 350,000 characters. The upper section discusses the author’s academic thoughts, the middle section covers his clinical experience, and the lower section presents the scholars’ clinical insights drawn from Professor Pei Zhengxue’s experiences, offering rich and diverse content.

Professor Pei Zhengxue graduated from the Medical Department of Xi’an Medical University in 1961. Born into a distinguished family of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in Longshang, he possessed a solid foundation in traditional Chinese medicine. In the field of integrated Chinese and Western medicine in China, he is one of the most experienced and highly effective specialists, enjoying great renown in the medical community of the northwest. Since the publication of his monograph “Commentary on Blood Disorders” by People’s Health Publishing House in 1978, he has continued to edit and publish more than ten integrated Chinese and Western medicine works alongside his busy clinical practice. Among them, “Practical Internal Medicine of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine” won the “International Gold Award” during a lecture tour in the United States. Based on decades of clinical experience, Professor Pei Zhengxue proposed the sixteen-character principle: “Western medical diagnosis, traditional Chinese medicine dialectical reasoning, traditional Chinese medicine as the primary treatment, Western medicine as a supplementary approach.” He has published over ten papers on this principle and has been invited to give lectures across the northwest region, as well as in Guizhou, Dalian, and Guangxi, sharing his clinical insights based on this sixteen-character approach. The Gansu Provincial Health Department even organized four provincial-level advanced training courses for attending physicians in traditional Chinese medicine. It is hoped that the publication of “Collected Medical Experiences of Pei Zhengxue” will provide guidance for clinicians and integrated Chinese and Western medicine practitioners alike.

Chen Keji, October 1993, Beijing

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III. Selected Excerpts from Yu Yingao’s Preface