Man Gu

Biographic Data

ID7289322
NAMEMan Gu
GIVEN NAMESMan
FAMILY NAMEGu
SIGNATUREGU M
AFFILIATIONSChinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College
ORCID0000-0002-1638-3099
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX0

  • Investigating the Clan Affiliations of the Occupants of the Laoguanshan 老官山 Han Tombs in Chengdu

    Tao Xie, D Yang et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    Inscriptions on funerary objects excavated from the Han tombs of Laoguanshan in Chengdu are key to unraveling the identities of the tombs’ occupants. Our analysis of these inscriptions, considered alongside the varying configurations of the tombs, the excavated objects, the earliest dates when the tombs were ransacked, and the physical characteristics revealed by the bones of the tomb occupants, together suggest that they were aristocrats from di…

  • Collating and Interpreting the Medical Bamboo Slips Excavated from the Han Tombs in Tianhui Town

    Man GuARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    In July 2012 through August 2013, four earthen shaft pit tombs with timber chambers were excavated in a cemetery located in Tianhui Town, Jinniu District, Chengdu City. The tombs, which had been looted, were of similar size and aligned in the same south–north orientation. Tomb M3 contained 951 bamboo slips distributed across two compartments of its lower chambers: North II and South II . Most of the texts they contain are of medical interest, tho…

  • Bian Que’s Twelve Channels

    Open AccessJianmin Li, J Y Li et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    The name Bian Que, like that of the Yellow Emperor (Huangdi), has reverberated through the development of Chinese medicine since the time of the Warring States. The discovery of a human figurine showing channels and strategic points, together with a number of medical texts, during the excavation of the Laoguanshan Han tomb in Chengdu, Sichuan, in 2012–13 has reignited controversies about whether it is correct to speak of a specific Bian Que schoo…

  • A Brief Introduction to the Horse Medical Manuscript from the Tianhui Laoguanshan Han Tomb

    Open AccessD Yang, Man GuARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    One of the most important archaeological finds excavated from the Tianhui Laoguanshan Han tombs in 2012–13 was a manuscript on horse medicine, dated around the third century BCE . Prior to the discovery of this highly specialized veterinary text, only a handful of horse recipes from the Qin and Han periods had been found, and a sixth-century CE agricultural treatise, Essential Techniques for the Common People , was generally regarded as the earli…

  • Bamboo Slip Medical Manuscripts Excavated from Tianhui Township, Sichuan

    Changhua Liu, Man Gu et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    Since 2014 our team of scholars at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences ( CACMS ) has been transcribing and analyzing the 951 bamboo slips excavated from the Laoguanshan tomb site at Tianhui. The team includes Liu Changhua 柳长华 , Gu Man 顾漫 , Zhou Qi 周琦 , Luo Qiong 罗琼 , and Liu Yang 刘阳 . The lead author of this article, who is the former director of the Institute of Chinese Medical History and Medical Literature at CACMS , is the principal…

  • Techniques for Piercing the Mai Recorded in the Laoguanshan Han Tomb Bamboo Slips

    Man Gu, Qi Zhou et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    The text discussed in this paper is part of the collection of bamboo slip medical manuscripts excavated from the Laoguanshan Han tomb outside of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, in 2012. We have given it the title Piercing Methods based on its contents. This text provides invaluable new material for understanding the historical development of Chinese medicine and acupuncture over the course of the Han dynasty (202 BCE –220 CE ). We combine analy…

  • Preliminary Report on the Tianhui Bamboo Manuscript Methods of Decoctions with Blended Formulas to Treat Sixty Ailments

    Qiong Luo, Man Gu et al.ARTICLEAsian Medicine2024

    Among the medical manuscripts excavated in 2012–13 from the Han tombs at Tianhui Township in Sichuan Province is a collection of recipes for treating sixty ailments. Under each ailment heading are one or more recipes, making 106 recipes in total. Because its content focuses on “combining, blending and producing formulas,” the authors decided to name this collection the Methods of Decoctions with Blended Formulas to Treat Sixty Ailments after a ti…

  • Archaeobotanical evidence of the use of medicinal cannabis in a secular context unearthed from south China

    Open AccessYunjun Bai, Ming Jiang et al.ARTICLEJournal of Ethnopharmacology2021

  • Protecting traditional knowledge of Chinese medicine

    Open AccessChanghua Liu, Man GuARTICLEFrontiers of Medicine2011