title: [Contributions of professor Yang Chang-sen to modern acupuncture-moxibustion theory].
abstract: Professor YANG Chang-sen, devoted himself entirely to the clinical practice, education and research of modern acupuncture-moxibustion for over 50 years, has made great contribution to the construction and development of the theoretical system of the science. His main achievements includes constructing and perfecting acupuncture-moxibustion module in differentiation of syndromes, editing textbooks such as Zhenjiuxue Jiangyi (Teaching Materials of Acupuncture-Moxibustion) and Zhenjiu Zhi-liaoxue (Acupuncture Therapeutics) from innovational viewpoints, explaining the reducing and reinforcing manipulations of acupuncture therapy systematically and historically, exploring means of high-level personnel cultivation and insisting to carry out acupuncture-moxibustion academic research in clinical practice.
authors.affiliation: The Second Clinical Medicine College, Nanjing University of TCM, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu Province, China. zhangjianbin@njutcm.edu.cn
authors.forename: Jian-Bin
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D026881:Acupuncture / Q000193:education* / Q000266:history; D015670:Acupuncture Therapy / Q000266:history; D002681:China; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009071:Moxibustion / Q000266:history; D013663:Teaching