title: [Comrade ZHU Lian, a pioneer and innovator of acupuncture and moxibustion science in new China].
abstract: Comrade ZHU Lian is a main founder of Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and she is the first to learn TCM for a physician of western medicine. The present paper looks back the works of comrade ZHU in acupuncture and moxibustion cause. Her main contributions are learning acupuncture and moxibustion medicine, popularizing acupuncture and moxibustion therapy; being concerned acupuncture and moxibustion cause, establishing organization of acupuncture and moxibustion research, more early conducting international exchanges of acupuncture and moxibustion; paying attention to clinical practice, proposing scientific research of acupuncture and moxibustion; writing New Acupuncture and Moxibustion Science, passing on later generations.
authors: Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing 100700, China. zhenjiubj@vip.sina.com
authors: Lan-Ping
authors: LP
authors: Ma
authors: Chong-Cheng
authors: CC
authors: Xue
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century