Traditionelle chinesische Medizin, Bd.1: Band 1 (Traditionelle chinesische Medizin. Pathogenese und Pathologie der Energetik in der chinesischen Medizin)

Born in Hanoi, Nghi was educated in Vietnam, China and France. After his medical degree he began a combined Eastern and Western medical practice in 1940. In 1954 he devoted his practice entirely to acupuncture based on the classical texts: Huangdi Neijing (Suwen, Lingshu) and the Nan Jing. He was a doctor, author, teacher and scholar of the classic texts of Chinese Medicine (acupuncture-moxibustion). Much of his life's work revolved around translating and adding his own commentary to an unmolested Tang Dynasty copy of the Huangdi Neijing (Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic) from an ancient script into the French language.

He was insistent that Western medicine and Chinese Medicine were One Medicine.

Van Nghi's brother was director of the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Hanoi, and through him, Van Nghi had access to the North Vietnamese teaching text Trung Y Hoc (Studies of Chinese Medicine)and teaching materials from Beijing and Nanjing which explain the strong TCM flavour of much of his (especially later) writing. His contributions were incorporated into the syllabus of the British College of Acupuncture by Keith Lamont, Royston Low and colleagues.