[Huang Zongxi and medicine]

Being a very famous Confucianist, Huang Zongxi also had indepth understanding in medicine. When dealing with the famous physicians of his native land in eastern Zhejiang province, such as Zhang Jiebin, Zhao Xianke, Gao Doukui, Huang, in addition to his positive appraisal on these persons' contribution to the theory of Warm diseases, particularly Zhang Jiebin, also made comments dialectically on their detrimental effect of the Theory of Warm - benefiting on the society and the rash action of denying the theory of cold pathogenic disorders and even ignoring channel - collaterals, but biasing to only one channel, particularly that carried in Zhao Xianke's Yi Guan (Medical Permeation).