Investigation on the historical facts about Zhu Weiju, a modern famous physician

Abstract

Zhu Weiju (1884 - 1951) was born to a physician family and read extensively medical books of all ages. He entered a military medical school to learn western medicine and investigated western medicine in Japan when he was young. He advocated to reform traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) by incorporating scientific knowledge and created a theory of "Five section-Eight guideline" to elucidate Zhongjing's theory. He got a nickname "Zhu-aconitum" due to his favor on using aconitum. He practiced medicine in Shanghai in his middle age and ran medical schools. He challenged the Warm-disease School in Shanghai, which advocated the application of "clear-light atmosphere" by applying heavy warm and hot medicines to save critical cases, and was famous of his applying warm-hot remedies as the "Zhu's School" at a time in Shanghai. His academic thought was focused in his representative work, Shang han zhi nan (Questioning in Cold Pathogenic Diseases). His disciples include Chen Susheng, Xu Zhongcai and Wang Zhaoji.