Léi Gōng 雷公
Legendary medical authority of mythic Chinese antiquity, conventionally one of Huángdì’s 黃帝 黃帝 interlocutors in the Huángdì nèijīng 黃帝內經 (KR3e0001 KR3e0002) — three chapters of the Sùwèn (《著至教論》, 《示從容論》, 《疏五過論》, 《徵四失論》) are framed as dialogues between Huángdì and Léi Gōng, in contrast to the more frequent Qí Bó 岐伯 岐伯 dialogues. He is also cited as a pharmacological authority in the multi-authority drug entries preserved by Wú Pǔ 吳普 吳普 in 《吳普本草》 (KR3ec002), where his opinions on the flavour and toxicity of drugs are recorded alongside those of Tóngjūn 桐君 桐君, Shénnóng 神農, and Biǎn Què 扁鵲 秦越人. A Léi Gōng pàozhì lùn 雷公炮炙論 of drug-processing is bibliographically associated with him though attributed to a later compiler. Modern scholarship treats Léi Gōng as a culture-hero attribution rather than a historical figure.