Nguyen Van Nghi


Nguyễn Văn Nghị was a Vietnamese-French physician who was prominent among those credited with bringing Chinese medicine to the West

Biography

Born in Hanoi, French Indochina, 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 and the Nan Jing. He was a doctor, author, teacher and scholar of the classic texts of Chinese Medicine. Much of his life's work revolved around translating and adding his own commentary to an unmolested Tang dynasty copy of the Huangdi Neijing from an ancient script into the French language.
He was insistent that Western medicine and Chinese Medicine were not separate scientific pursuits, but that there was One Medicine.
It would appear likely that some of this account is legend rather than history. The commentary referred to as that of 'Ma Yuan Tai ' would most likely be Ma Xuan Tai. The commentary attributed to Zhang Yan Yin ' would most likely be Zhang An Yin . These dates would be consistent with the transmission of Chinese medicine to Vietnam in the 1700s.
Nghi began to collaborate with Albert Chamfrault and M. Ung Kan Sam. The beginning of this school can be attributed to George Soulié de Morant, who is the founder of the French school of acupuncture. By 1966, Chamfrault had become President of the French Acupuncture Association, and had succeeded in gathering all the physician acupuncturists - followers of De la Fuÿe, Niboyet and others under the same umbrella and teaching materials from Beijing and Nanjing which explain the strong TCM flavor of much of his writing. His contributions were incorporated into the syllabus of the British College of Acupuncture by Keith Lamont, Royston Low and colleagues.

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
  • Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin. Band 1 & Band 2. Uelzen, MLV, 1974
  • Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin. Band 1 & Band 2. Uelzen, MLV, zweite auflage, 1977
  • Патогенез и патология энергетики в китайской медицине. // Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der Chinesischen Medizin. Band 1 & Band 2.
  • Патогенез и патология энергетики в китайской медицине. Глава 3. Пять движений и Шесть энергий. // Pathogenese und pathologie der energetic in der chinesischen medizin — Band 1, 1977; Kapitel 3, SS. pp. 45–63. Перевёл с немецкого Михаил Смирнов, редактор и автор примечаний
  • Патогенез заболеваний. Диагностика и лечение методами традиционной китайской медицины: иглоукалывание, массаж, прижигание. Тома 1, 2. . Редактор и переводчик — МП «Вен-Мер», фирма «Эврика», Новосибирск, 1992. — 584 с. —
  • Albert Chamfrault, Nguyen Van Nghi. L' Energétique Humaine en Médecine Chinoise.. Angoulême, Editions Chamfrault, Imprimerie de la Charente, 1969, 1981, p. 463
  • Albert Chamfrault, Nguyen Van Nghi. Atlas Anatomique. Imprimerie de la Charente, Angoulême, 1969, p. 73
  • Nguyen Van Nghi, Tran Viet Dzung, Christine Recours Nguyen. . Selon Zhen Jiu Da Cheng de Yang Chi Chou.
  • * — Edition N.V.N., Marseille, 1982. — 307 pages.
  • * — Editions N.V.N., Marseille, 1984. — 400 pages.
  • * — Editions N.V.N., Marseille, 1989. — 489 pages.