中医中药学家。浙江吴兴人。1924年在吴兴县拜三代名医张克明为师学中医，学到了许多中医经典着作及临床经验。4年后在上海恽铁桥函授中医学校就读。江苏中医研究所研究员、所长，中国医学科学院江苏分院副院长。长期从事中医临床和中药研究工作。系统研究祖国中医中药学，主张中西医结合，运用现代科学整理祖国医药文献；并在江苏昆山和苏州吴县等地承担血吸虫病的防治工作，为继承和发展祖国的中医中药学作出了贡献。
1955年被选聘为中国科学院院士（学部委员）。
Specialist in traditional Chinese medicine. Born in Wuxing,Jiangsu Province. In 1924, he became a student of Zhang Keming who was the third generation descendant of famous doctor of the traditional Chinese medicine, and learnt a great deal of classical traditional Chinese medical leterature and clinical experience. Studied at Shanghai Yuntieqiao Correspondence School 4 years later. Professor and director, Jiangsu Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and vice president, Jiangsu Branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Ye worked in the field of traditional medical clinic and Chinese medicinal research for a long time and studied traditional Chinese medicine systematically. He advocated the combination of traditional Chinese medicine with western medicine and sorted out the references of Chinese medicine and pharmacology by means of modern science.He took part in the prevention and cure of schistosomiasis and contributed to the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine.
He became Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1955.
