A Great Master of Chinese Medicine

Movie

Starring Wang Qingxiang, Yihan Huang, Zhang Qian, Liu Chenxia

Li Zhihua, a physician practicing in rural Henan province during the Mao era, gains great fame when his inexpensive herbal remedy cures a plague of poliomyelitis. But his medical skills, cannot protect his family from the political chaos of the Cultural Revolution. Nor are they enough to treat the flood of impoverished patients at his doorstep.