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Dr. Yang Zhimin

Chinese name: 杨志敏
Chief TCM Physician, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor, Vice President . Preventive Treatment and Sleep Medicine
Dr. Yang Zhimin is Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, a professor, chief physician and doctoral supervisor. A Qihuang Scholar and Guangdong Famous TCM Doctor, she specializes in TCM sleep medicine and preventive treatment, and created a nationally promoted sequential treatment protocol for chronic insomnia.

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2022
Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award (First Prize)
2023
National Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Prize)
2024
Chief-Edited Monograph on Ointment Therapy for Insomnia

  • The Physician

About Dr. Yang Zhimin

Dr. Yang Zhimin is Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, a professor, chief physician, doctoral supervisor and postdoctoral mentor. She is a Qihuang Scholar, a Guangdong Famous TCM Doctor and a national outstanding TCM clinical talent, and serves as Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome. She specializes in TCM sleep medicine and preventive treatment, and created a sequential treatment protocol for chronic insomnia that has been promoted nationwide. She proposed the harmony-state health concept for treating sleep and emotional disorders and has a profound knowledge of constitutional regulation and herbal paste therapy. She has led more than ten national and provincial research projects and published over 100 papers.
1、Vice President of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine; chief TCM physician, professor, doctoral supervisor and postdoctoral mentor
2、Qihuang Scholar, Guangdong Famous TCM Doctor and national outstanding TCM clinical talent
3、Vice Director of the State Key Laboratory of Dampness Syndrome and academic leader of national preventive treatment specialties
4、Created a sequential treatment protocol for chronic insomnia promoted nationwide and proposed the harmony-state health concept
5、Led more than ten national and provincial projects, including National Ninth Five-Year, Eleventh Five-Year, 973 and Ministry of Science and Technology projects
6、Won one China Association of Chinese Medicine Science and Technology First Prize and trained 2 postdoctoral fellows, 43 master’s students and 19 doctoral students

Dr. Yang Zhimin ’s Three Key Areas of Expertise

Three areas of focused expertise, each supported by a deep subspecialty team, high case volumes and an English-speaking care pathway coordinated by Orisene.

Chronic insomnia

She provides sequential TCM treatment and long-term management; she created a nationally promoted sequential protocol and the harmony-state health concept to restore sleep rhythm, using syndrome differentiation, herbal formulas and the Shuhe Granules studied in her randomized double-blind controlled trial

Emotional and sub-health conditions

She offers TCM regulation for anxiety, depression and chronic fatigue; through syndrome differentiation, acupuncture and herbal formulas she aims to improve mood, energy and sleep, addressing the emotional and constitutional imbalance behind sub-health states and helping restore balance for long-term wellness

Constitutional regulation

She specializes in herbal paste and preventive treatment; as a leading expert in TCM preventive medicine she designs individualized constitutional programs to strengthen immunity, drawing on the dampness-syndrome research of the State Key Laboratory to improve overall health and resistance to illness

More: chronic fatigue syndrome——energy restoration; menopausal syndrome——TCM symptom relief; long-term wellness——TCM health preservation and constitutional conditioning

  • Clinical Practice & Publications

Selected cases, research & publications

Representative work drawn from documented clinical treatments, publicly indexed literature, and hospital project records, reflecting the depth of this physician's hands-on expertise and academic rigor.
1. TCM Preventive Treatment: Health Identification Technologies
Yang Zhimin led the project creating and promoting key technologies for health identification and intervention in traditional Chinese medicine preventive treatment, earning the 2022 Guangdong Science and Technology Progress Award First Prize. The work builds a body constitution, organ and meridian identification system used to guide personalised prevention and wellness for sub-healthy people.
2. Ointment Therapy for Chronic Insomnia
This paper summarises Professor Yang Zhimin’s experience using herbal ointment formulas to treat chronic insomnia. Adopting a holistic view and valuing spleen regulation, she balances deficiency and excess and harmonises the heart and kidney, spleen and stomach to restore sleep, with several verified clinical cases illustrating the approach.
3. Treating Insomnia from Yang Deficiency
Professor Yang Zhimin of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine argues that although insomnia is often treated by suppressing excessive yang, many patients actually have yang deficiency, which is becoming more common. Treating such patients with conventional yin-nourishing methods often fails, so she uses warming and tonifying strategies with good clinical results.
4. Review of Yang-Deficiency Approaches to Insomnia
This review surveys domestic research on treating insomnia from the perspective of yang deficiency. Co-authored by Yang Zhimin, it searches major Chinese medical databases, summarises patterns and therapeutic principles, and provides clinicians with a reference framework for warming yang to improve sleep quality in appropriate patients.
5. Guizhi Formulas in Preventive Treatment: Clinical Report
At the 2026 academic annual meeting of the Preventive Treatment branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, Professor Yang Zhimin presented Guizhi classical formulas in preventive treatment. Drawing on clinical cases, she explained their pattern-based use for sub-health regulation and pre-disease intervention in chronic conditions, showing the vitality of classical formulas.
6. National Standard for TCM Body Constitution Classification
China released a national standard classifying nine traditional Chinese medicine body constitutions, supporting the personalised prevention approach championed by Professor Yang Zhimin’s research. Based on studies from 2009 to 2024, the standard uses graded scoring to help clinics and health centres identify a person’s constitution for tailored herbal and lifestyle care.
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Where Dr. Yang Zhimin practices

Guangzhou

Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine

Chinese name: 广东省中医院
Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, founded in 1933 and known as the leading Chinese-medicine hospital in southern China, is China's largest tertiary TCM hospital with 3,524 beds and two grand masters, topping national TCM rankings for eight years.
Since 1933
93 years of TCM care
3,524
Licensed beds
6.84 million (2021)
Annual outpatient visits
9
Licensed beds
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