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Ang Wang
b. 1615
A physician-scholar from late Ming and early Qing China, he is remembered for writing practical medical books that helped organize traditional remedies and materia medica for everyday use. His works remained influential enough to be preserved in major library and archival collections.
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本草備要
by Ang Wang
About the author
Born in 1615, Wang Ang was a Chinese medical writer and physician associated with the late Ming and early Qing period. Library and authority records identify him as the author of traditional medical works, and modern collections such as the Wellcome Collection and the Bibliothèque nationale de France continue to catalog him as an important historical figure in Chinese medicine.
He is especially known for books on herbal medicine and formulas, including Ben cao bei yao and other compilations of remedies. The surviving descriptions of his work suggest a clear practical aim: to gather, organize, and explain medical knowledge in a form that working practitioners and serious readers could use.
Some sources differ slightly on his death year, listing either 1694 or 1695, so it is safest to say that he lived into the 1690s. No suitable verified portrait image could be confirmed from the sources reviewed, so none is included here.