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Nguyen Van Nghi, MD, 1909 - 1999
Lecturer, Writer, Practitoner

The late Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi is known the world over as a scholar, teacher and practitioner of Classical Chinese medicine. In practice since 1940, he is author of both original medical textbooks as well as translator and publisher of the primary Chinese medical classics.

Some of his original works include:

Médecine traditionnelle chinoise, pathogenie et pathologie co-author
Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen

Traditionelle chinesische medizin, pathogenese und pathologie (deutsch)

L’énergétique humaine with Dr Chamfrault

Théorie et pratique de l’analgésie par acupuncture co-authors
Dr Mai Van Dong, Dr Uld. Lanza

Semiologie et thérapeutique en médecine énergétique orientale
Semeotica e terapia nelle medecina energetica orientale (italiano)

Pharmacologie en médecine orientale co-author Dr Mai Van Dong

Translations and Exegesis of the Ancient Texts:

«  The Suwen » 
Huangdi Neijing Suwen :

« The Lingshu » :  co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung,
Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
Huangdi Neijing Lingshu

« The Nanjing » :  co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung,
Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen

« Le Dacheng» : Co-authors Dr Tran Viet Dzung, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
Art et pratique de l’Acupuncture et de la moxibustion
(selon Zhen Jiu Da Cheng)

«  The Shanghan Lun » : co-author Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
Maladies évolutives des 3 Yin et des 3 Yang
(selon Shanghan Lun de Zhang Zhongjing)

«  The Maijing » : co-authors Dr Bui Van Tho, Dr Ch. Recours Nguyen
Mai Jing, classique des pouls de Wang Shu He (210-285 ap. J-C)

Dr. Nguyen was Director of the Journal: Revue Français de Médicine Traditionelle Chinoise since 1973, and is Founder or Honorary Member of too many world acupuncture associations to list. Some of these honors include: Founder and Honorary President: Center of Teaching and Diffusion of Traditional Acupuncture; Founder and Honorary President: Association of Physician Acupuncturists of America; Vice President: World Federation of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Societies; Vice President and Founder: International Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine of Montreal.


Tran Viet Dzung, MD
Lecturer, Writer, Practitioner

Currently the Faculty Member in Charge of Acupuncture at the University of Medicine in Nice, France, Dr. Dzung has been practicing medicine since 1970, and has collaborated with
Dr. Ngyuen for over 25 years. This collaboration has included the translations of the ancient Chinese medical texts into French, and serving as the Assistant Editor in Chief of the Revue Français de Médicine Traditionelle Chinoise since 1973.

Dr. Dzung’s achievements include: Founding Member and President of the Association for Eastern Medicine; Founder and Member of Honor of the Association of Physician Acupuncturists of America; Member of Honor of the Medical American Academy of Acupuncture.

A truly gifted lecturer and source of ancient medical knowledge, together with Dr. Nguyen, he has conducted advanced training programs and seminars to practitioners world-wide including France, Spain, Italy, China, Vietnam, Brazil, Mexico, USA and Canada. He still continues this itenerate training schedule on his own, peretuating the great works of Dr. Nguyen and insuring the transmission of first rate, authentic classical medical knowledge.

Sean C. Marshall, DAc 1948 - 2011
Lecturer, Writer, Founding President JTS

Born in 1948 in Asheboro, North Carolina, Dr. Marshall has taught taijiquan and conducted a general acupuncture practice for over 38 years. For 15 years he specialized in the treatment of gynecologic conditions by Chinese medicine. He graduated with honors from the Occidental Institute of Chinese Studies (Montreal) in 1978. He received his Master of Acupuncture from that institution in 1981. He has been a diplomate of the National Commission for the Certification of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine since 1986. He was certified by the British Acupuncture Association in 1987. In 1988 he was the 42nd recipient of the Doctor of Acupuncture degree from the British College of Acupuncture (London), the subject of his dissertation being Reproductive System Energetics.

Dr. Marshall has published and lectured widely in the United States, Germany, Austria, France, and England. He was founder and twice president of the Acupuncture Association of Minnesota. He is founder and president of Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine (1976). He is also president of Institute Van Nghi (USA).

He was Professor and Director of the Program in Chinese Medicine at Northwestern College of Chiropractic from 1987 to 1990, in which he implemented the expansion of the didactic curriculum and created the addition of a broad-based clinical internship component of that program. Personal tutors in acupuncture have included: Nguyen Van Nghi, MD, Tran Viet Dzung, MD, Jean-Claud Darras, MD, Dr. Med. Hartwig Schuldt, Koji Okazaki, MD, OMD, and Wang Shih-chang, CA. Personal tutors in taijiquan were senior students of Cheng Man-ching: Fred Lehrmen, Tam Gibbs, Maggie Newman, Ed Young, and William C.C. Chen. He studied taiji sword with T. T. Liang.

In 1993 he returned to his native North Carolina in order to devote his energies to teaching, writing. As well as a series of workbooks for students of acupuncture he is currently producing educational charts and graphics. He is project coordinator and editor for the translation and publication of all the works of Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi.