[The main schools of TCM in Zhejiang].
The history of the main academic TCM schools is described, beginning from Danxi school of Zhu Zhenheng of the Yuan dynasty to the 1980s. Established the theory of "exuberant yang and insufficient yin", Zhu set up the therapy of nourishing yin to decrease fire. In the late Ming dynasty, Zhao Xianke and Zhing Jingyue founded the warm - tonification school, Zhao's theory on vital gate exerted profound influence on the basic theory of later ages. At the turn of Ming - Qing dynasties, a Qiantang school was set up by Zhang Shuichen, Zhang Zhicong and Zhang Xijun, Zhang Zhi cong being the synthetizen. The Shao school of cold-disease refers mainly to the physicians in the shaoxin region who studied the warm heat disorders (especially damp - warm diseases) which was mature at the turn of Qing dynasty and the Republican period, whose influence remained until the 1980s.