Editing Traditional Chinese medicine (section)

=== Post-Han dynasty ===
In the centuries that followed, several shorter books tried to summarize or systematize the contents of the ''Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon''. The ''Canon of Problems'' (probably second century CE) tried to reconcile divergent doctrines from the ''Inner Canon'' and developed a complete medical system centered on needling therapy.<ref name="Sivin 1987" /> The ''AB Canon of Acupuncture and Moxibustion'' (''Zhenjiu jiayi jing'' {{lang|zh|針灸甲乙經}}, compiled by [[Huangfu Mi]] sometime between 256 and 282 CE) assembled a consistent body of doctrines concerning acupuncture;<ref name="Sivin 1987" /> whereas the ''Canon of the Pulse'' (''Maijing'' {{lang|zh|脈經}}; c. 280) presented itself as a "comprehensive handbook of diagnostics and therapy."<ref name="Sivin 1987" />

Around 900–1000 AD, Chinese were the first to develop a form of vaccination, known as [[variolation]] or [[inoculation]], to prevent [[smallpox]]. Chinese physicians had realised that when healthy people were exposed to smallpox scab tissue, they had a smaller chance of being infected by the disease later on. The common methods of inoculation at the time was through crushing smallpox scabs into powder and breathing it through the nose.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bushak|first=Lecia|date=2016-03-21|title=A Brief History Of Vaccines: From Medieval Chinese 'Variolation' To Modern Vaccination|url=https://www.medicaldaily.com/history-vaccines-variolation-378738|access-date=2021-04-16|website=Medical Daily|language=en|archive-date=16 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416134506/https://www.medicaldaily.com/history-vaccines-variolation-378738|url-status=live}}</ref>

Prominent medical scholars of the post-Han period included [[Tao Hongjing]] (456–536), [[Sun Simiao]] of the Sui and Tang dynasties, [[Zhang Jiegu]] ({{circa|1151}}–1234), and [[Li Shizhen]] (1518–1593). <!-- [[Ou XiFan|Wu Jian]] a robber known for being dissected -->