2. • 1879-1969
• Yo San was born into a medical family
dating back 35 generations to 738 A.D.
3. According to Chinese history Ni surname began with
the grandson of Yellow Emperor 2,500 B.C.
4. By Han Dynasty (200 B.C.--220 A.D.) due to its size and political influence
(i.e.Prime Minister Ni Kuan) the family was attacked and persecuted, some branches
of the family changed their surnames to Zhu etc. to escape persecution
5. In 738 A.D., Ni ancestor Li Gong moved his family from
present day Shandong to Fujian province, thus begun
Generation #1 of our Ni family lineage
7. Yo San’s father Dr. Bang Quan Ni was a pediatrician
who passed away while trying to save village children
from a smallpox epidemic
8. Yo San learned to make monks robes in exchange for
re-transmission of his father’s medical teaching
9. After 15 years of learning from his father’s colleagues
and finished studying the books left to him by his father
Yo San began to practice and teach Chinese medicine
10. Yo San set up the College of Tao and Traditional
Chinese Healing and opened his doors to anyone
wanting to learn acupuncture, Chinese medicine & Tao
11. Besides teaching and practicing Chinese medicine Yo
San regularly provided free medical services to the
poor and the indigent and taught spiritual values
12. In 1948 on the eve of the Communist take over, at the
urging of his father Yo San, Hua-Ching left China for
Taiwan bringing the family medical lineage with him
13. During the Cultural Revolution Yo San was persecuted
for standing up to preserve ancient wisdom & spiritual
values that were targeted by communists to destroy
14. Yo San passed away in 1969 having fulfilled his life’s purpose of
preserving and teaching the family medical tradition, making
Chinese medicine available to all and to improve the human and
world conditions through teaching spiritual development
15. Hua-Ching (OmNi) stayed in Taiwan for 27 years and
continued Yo San’s legacy of medical practice, re-
established College of Tao and wrote many books
16. OmNi was invited by American students to the United
States in 1976 to teach Chinese medicine and the Tao
17. Together with sons Daoshing and Mao Shing they
established Yo San University in 1989 to honor and
continue the legacy of Yo San
19. Today Yo San University has a masters and doctorate
degree programs in acupuncture and Chinese medicine
20. We offers low cost or free acupuncture services at
Venice Family Clinic, Being Alive HIV Clinic, Children’s
Hospital Los Angeles and the latest Wise Healthy Aging
21. Yo San offers a lineage-based teaching that is grounded
in taoist spiritual values of self-care & cultivation
22. We are fortunate to have a dedicated team of faculty,
administrators and clinicians all working together
23. Yo San engages in fundraising to support its free and
low cost clinical services, health education outreach as
well as providing scholarships for students
