Nguyen Van Nghi

Nguyen Van Nghi (11 January 1909, Hanoi — 17 December 1999, Marseille) was a Vietnamese-French physician who brought Chinese medicine to the West

Biography

Born in Hanoi, French Indochina (present-day Vietnam), Nghi was educated in Vietnam, China and France. Completing his medical degree from the Montpellier University, he began a combined Eastern and Western medical practice in 1940.

In 1954 he devoted his practice entirely to acupuncture based on the classical texts: Huangdi Neijing (Suwen, Lingshu) and the Nan Jing. He was a doctor, author, teacher and scholar of the classic texts of Chinese Medicine (acupuncture-moxibustion). Much of his life's work revolved around translating and adding his own commentary to an unmolested Tang Dynasty copy of the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic) from an ancient script into the French language.^{[citation needed]}

What distinguished this particular version of the Huangdi Neijing from those available in China was that it included commentary by two Tang Dynasty physicians, without which, he claimed, made the texts indecipherable. He was insistent that Western medicine and Chinese Medicine were not separate scientific pursuits, but that there was One Medicine.^{[citation needed]}

Death

He died on 17 December 1999, aged 90, in Marseille, France.

Works

• Pathogénie et pathologie energétique en médecine Chinoise: Traitement par acupuncture et massages. Marseille. 1977, p. 27 (in French)
• Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin. Band 1 & Band 2. Uelzen, MLV, 1974 (in German)
• Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin (Behandlung durch Akupunktur und Massage). Band 1 & Band 2. Uelzen, MLV, zweite auflage, 1977 (in German)
• Патогенез и патология энергетики в китайской медицине. // Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin. Band 1 & Band 2. Contents (in Russian)
• Патогенез и патология энергетики в китайской медицине. Глава 3. Пять движений и Шесть энергий. // Pathogenese und pathologie der energetic in der chinesischen medizin (behandlung durch Akupunktur und Massage) — Band 1, 1977; Kapitel 3, SS. pp. 45-63. Перевёл с немецкого Михаил Смирнов (1984), редактор и автор примечаний А. Н. Ахметсафин (in Russian)
• Патогенез заболеваний. Диагностика и лечение методами традиционной китайской медицины: иглоукалывание, массаж, прижигание. Тома 1, 2. [Перевод с китайского]. Редактор и переводчик Салдаев П. В.. МП «Вен-Мер», фирма «Эврика», Новосибирск, 1992; ISBN 5-87608-001-2 (in Russian)
• Albert Chamfrault, Nguyen Van Nghi. L' Energétique Humaine en Médecine Chinoise. (Traité de médecine chinoise: d'après les textes chinois anciens et modernes. Tome VI). Angoulême, Editions Chamfrault, Imprimerie de la Charente, 1969, 1981 [Réédition], p. 463 (in French)
• Albert Chamfrault, Nguyen Van Nghi. Atlas Anatomique. Imprimerie de la Charente, Angoulême, 1969, p. 73 (in French)

Indefinite publishings

• Théorie et pratique de l'analgésie par acupuncture (out of print) co-authors Dr Mai Van Dong, Dr Uld. Lanza
• Médecine traditionnelle chinoise, pathogenie et pathologie co-author Dr. Christine Recours Nguyen
• Semiologie et thérapeutique en médecine énergétique orientale Semeotica e terapia nelle medecina energetica orientale (italiano)
• Pharmacologie en médecine orientale co-author Dr Mai Van Dong

Translations and Exegesis of Ancient Texts

• «The Suwen» Huangdi Neijing Suwen : Tome 1 Tome 2 Tome 3 co-author Dr Nguyen Patrick Tome 4 co-author Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
• «Le Dacheng» : co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen Art et pratique de l’Acupuncture et de la moxibustion (selon Zhen Jiu Da Cheng) Tome 1 Tome 2 Tome 3
• «The Shangan Lun» : co-author Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen Maladies évolutives des 3 Yin et des 3 Yang (selon Shanghan Lun de Zhang Zhongjing)
• «The Maijing» : co-authors Dr Bui Van Tho, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen Mai Jing, classique des pouls de Wang Shu He (210-285 ap. J-C)
• «The Lingshu» : co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
• «Huangdi Neijing Lingshu» Tome 1 Tome 2 Tome 3
• «The Nanjing» : co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen

Links

• Nguyen, Van Nghi // 96 works in 119 publications in 7 languages and 340 library holdings
• Bibliografia di Agopuntura
• Books of Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi
• Institute Van Nghi (official website)
• JungTao.edu English translation of the Huangdi Neijing Lingshu published by Drs. Nguyen, Nguyen and Tran in 1994.