The greatest physicians in Traditional Vietnamese Medicine are Tue Tinh (14th century) and Hai Thuong Lang Ong Le Huu Trac (18th century) who are known as the medical founders of Vietnam’s Traditional Medicine.
Normally, according to Vietnamese tradition and custom, those who were considered as the most talented and successful men in any specific field were named as the saints or fathers of their specialty. Tue Tinh was called the saint and founder of Vietnamese traditional medicine. He was also the author of some famous books such as the Miracle Vietnamese Pharmacy and Great Morality In the Art of Medicine. He was the first person to give prominence to an idea of “the need for Vietnamese to be treated by Vietnamese medicines”.