Qí Bó 岐伯
Legendary minister and medical interlocutor of the Yellow Emperor (Huángdì 黃帝 黃帝). The bulk of the dialogues in the Huángdì nèijīng 黃帝內經 (KR3e0001 KR3e0002) — both Sùwèn and Língshū — are framed as questions from Huángdì answered by Qí Bó, making him the conventional speaker of imperial-era Chinese medical doctrine. The compound Qí-Huáng 岐黃 (“Qí Bó and Huángdì”) accordingly stands in literary usage for the medical tradition as a whole. Qí Bó’s pharmacological opinions are also cited in the multi-authority drug entries of 《吳普本草》 (KR3ec002) alongside those of Léi Gōng 雷公 雷公, Tóngjūn 桐君 桐君, Shénnóng 神農, and Biǎn Què 扁鵲 秦越人. Modern scholarship treats Qí Bó as a culture-hero attribution rather than a historical figure.