Wan Yousheng

Wan Yousheng is a representative clinician and scholar of Cold Damage (Shanghan) studies in traditional Chinese medicine. Public information about him is limited, and details of his life, including his birth and death years and native place, are not clearly recorded. Judging from the six works collected here, his writing centers on the close study and clinical application of the Treatise on Cold Damage, including works devoted to interpreting and teaching the classic, such as Shanghan Zhiyao and Wan on the Shanghan Lun, as well as a collection of case records, Wan Yousheng Yian Xuan, that presents diagnostic reasoning through actual cases; he also appears in the series One Hundred Distinguished Chinese Medicine Clinicians of the Past Century: Wan Yousheng. His writing is grounded in traditional medical theory, stresses the mutual corroboration of classical passages and clinical practice, and is plain and practical in style, making it suitable for students and practitioners of Chinese medicine.