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Huangfu Mi (; 215-282 CE), a famous Chinese scholar and physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
, was born in 215 (under the Eastern Han dynasty) in a poor farming family in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
. Between 256 and 260 CE, toward the end of the Cao Wei dynasty
Cao Wei

Cao Wei was one of the empires that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period. With the capital at Lu?y?ng, the empire was established by Cao Pi in 220, based upon the foundations that his father Cao Cao laid....
, he compiled the AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Zhenjiu jiayi jing; Wade-Giles
Wade-Giles

Wade-Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese language-English language dictionary of 1892....
: Chen1-chiu3 chia3-i3 ching1; ), a collection of various texts on acupuncture
Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine wikt:filiform needles into specific points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes....
 written in earlier periods.






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Huangfu Mi (; 215-282 CE), a famous Chinese scholar and physician
Physician

A physician, medical practitioner, doctor of medicine, or medical doctor practices medicine, and is concerned with maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease and injury....
, was born in 215 (under the Eastern Han dynasty) in a poor farming family in what is now the Chinese province of Gansu
Gansu

or , is a political divisions of China located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China. It lies between Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, and the Loess Plateau, and borders Mongolia to the north and Xinjiang to the west....
. Between 256 and 260 CE, toward the end of the Cao Wei dynasty
Cao Wei

Cao Wei was one of the empires that competed for control of China during the Three Kingdoms period. With the capital at Lu?y?ng, the empire was established by Cao Pi in 220, based upon the foundations that his father Cao Cao laid....
, he compiled the AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion (Pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Zhenjiu jiayi jing; Wade-Giles
Wade-Giles

Wade-Giles , sometimes abbreviated Wade, is a Romanization system for the Mandarin Chinese language used in Beijing. It developed from a system produced by Thomas Francis Wade in the mid-19th century, and reached settled form with Herbert Giles' Chinese language-English language dictionary of 1892....
: Chen1-chiu3 chia3-i3 ching1; ), a collection of various texts on acupuncture
Acupuncture

Acupuncture is a technique of inserting and manipulating fine wikt:filiform needles into specific points on the body to relieve pain or for therapeutic purposes....
 written in earlier periods. This book in 12 volumes further divided into 128 chapters was one of the earliest systematic works on acupuncture and moxibustion
Moxibustion

Moxibustion is an oriental medicine therapy utilizing moxa, or mugwort herb. It plays an important role in the traditional medicine systems of China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Tibet, and Mongolia....
, and it proved to be one of the most influential. Huangfu Mi also compiled a book called Diwang shiji ???? ("Chronological Records of Emperors and Kings"), only fragments of which have survived. He died in 282 under the Jin dynasty.