贺普仁字师牛，号空水，河北涞水人，14岁起师从京城针灸名家牛泽华，深得真传，八年后即以精湛医术独立应诊。1956年响应国家号召，关闭个人诊所加入公立医疗体系，此后长期在首都医科大学附属北京中医医院针灸中心从事临床与教学工作。他独创「贺氏针灸三通法」，将毫针「微通」、火针「温通」、灸法与刺络「强通」有机结合，系统拓展了针灸的临床应用范围。20世纪70年代，他是「针灸外交」的代表性人物之一，曾以放血针法为访华的日本首相田中角荣夫妇治疗高血压，取得立竿见影的疗效，为针灸赢得国际声誉作出了贡献。他是第一、二、三批国家级师承指导老师，2009年获评首届「国医大师」，2015年8月于北京逝世。

He Puren, courtesy name Shiniu, styled Kongshui, was born in Laishui, Hebei. At age fourteen he began studying under Niu Zehua, a renowned acupuncturist in Beijing, and within eight years had mastered the craft sufficiently to practice independently. In 1956, responding to a national call, he closed his private clinic to join the public healthcare system, subsequently spending decades in clinical practice and teaching at the Acupuncture Center of Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, affiliated with Capital Medical University. He originated the "He's Three Reinforcing Methods of Acupuncture," combining fine-needle "micro-reinforcement," fire-needle "warming reinforcement," and moxibustion with bloodletting "strong reinforcement" into a unified system that substantially broadened the clinical scope of acupuncture. In the 1970s he was a prominent figure in "acupuncture diplomacy," using bloodletting needling to treat hypertension in visiting Japanese Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei and his wife with immediate success, helping to raise the international profile of acupuncture. He was designated a national-level mentor for three successive cohorts of apprenticeship training, was named one of China's first Guoyi Dashi in 2009, and died in Beijing in August 2015.

出处：维基百科「贺普仁」条目；北京市中医管理局官网人物介绍；北京卫生健康委「国医大师贺普仁：中医针灸代表性传承人」。

Sources: Chinese Wikipedia entry "贺普仁"; Beijing Municipal Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine biographical profile; Beijing Municipal Health Commission profile.