台灣醫家朱木通（1904-1977），字芾亭，嘉義人，自學成醫考取證照，並以詩、書、畫著名。生於日本時代明智卅七年，朱木通靠自學研讀醫藥典籍，通曉方術，於1947年成立藥房坐堂應診，1968年考取中華民國中醫師執照，並開業春陽堂診所於嘉義市區。朱木通認為臨床診療疾病，應依原典條文論述下的四診為基礎，並重視腹診、抨擊《素問》五行假說模型、使用方證對應治則。朱氏之著作包括：《高血壓自己治療法》(1958)、《流行感冒與中醫療法》(1959)及最知名的《中醫臨床廿五年》(1973)，1977年逝世於嘉義。

The Taiwanese doctor CHU Mu-Tong, 1904-1977, lived in Chiayi. He established the “Chun-Yang-Tang” Pharmacy in 1947 and passed the National Examination for Chinese Medicine in 1967. Dr. CHU’ s academic medical thought was focusing on the abdominal diagnosis, and Decoction-Syndrome treatment methods. He wrote lots of books, one of the famous publications was the 25-Year-Experiences for Clinical Chinese Medicine. Doctor CHU died in 1977.