Wang Chin Ren [Wang Qingren] is famous in two areas of medicine.
First, he promoted the importance of accurately understanding
anatomy in order to diagnose and treat disease. Disection and
surgery had been all but ignored since the time of Hua Tuo and
traditional Chinese doctors had relied on a projected idea of
the internal organs. Wang said that "attempting healing without
knowing the internal organs is is like a blind man walking in
the dark." He also strongly promoted the idea that many diseases
were due to blood stasis and by activating blood circulation and
clearing away the static blood, one could resolve even the very
serious diseases. His blood vitalizing formulas are still used
extensively.
