Tell me how I learned Chinese medicine on my own.

Hello, I am Langzhong Xiao Yang, a practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine, let me introduce how I came to learn this path of traditional Chinese medicine.

By the way, I also talk about how I learned Chinese medicine on my own. I hope that those who are interested in Chinese medicine and want to learn Chinese medicine on their own will provide some references.

Speaking of interest in Chinese medicine is in my elementary school, because I began to take Chinese medicine at that time, because I grew up in poor health, congenital spleen and stomach weak, coupled with the family conditions at that time is not bad, too early in the oil meat diet led to the damage of my spleen and stomach (here there is the attention of parents, do not be too early to eat meat also small children), as long as you eat the oily and cold food, on the vomiting and diarrhea. My grandfather is a local barefoot doctor, belonging to the kind of Chinese and Western medicine, or our county's surgical "two knives" (a knife is my grandfather's teacher, haha). Grandpa saw his grandson such a body, he gave me a prescription for Chinese medicine, I went to school every day with a bottle of black soup in my backpack, so drink more than a year's time, the symptoms slowly improved.

By the time I was in junior high school, I had developed a strong interest in Chinese medicine, plus I began to study the language, sometimes sneaking in drawers during class to readThe Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, although I could not understand a lot of things, but it also laid the foundation for the future study of medicine. (I still have the torn copy of the Neijing at home).

It was because of my initial exposure to the Nei Jing that I gained an initial understanding of the basic concepts of Chinese medicine, such as: meridians, qi and blood, yin and yang, the five elements, and the holistic view of the human body, which helped me immensely in my future studies. I will talk more about why later.

Later, when I was in my third year of junior high school, I came into contact with my enlightened teacher, which is also a piece of fate. My master is a Taoist doctor, who became a monk at the age of 5, and then went down to the mountains at the age of 19 to break into the world, and when qigong fever was popular in the 70s and 80s, his old man was in the limelight for a number of years. Later, he settled down in my hometown and opened the door to practice medicine.

I was introduced to my master (not at that time) because my grandmother had a pillow. It was winter, I saw with my own eyes, the master put his hand on the top of my grandmother's head, did not touch my grandmother Oh, just like that for a while, I saw my grandmother's head like a martial arts TV series, the top of the head of the white gas, I was stunned. After a few more minutes, the master put his hand down and asked my grandmother if she was feeling better, but she moved her neck and actually moved freely. It was really amazing!

Afterward, I asked my grandmother what she felt at that time, and she said, "I felt like there were a lot of ants crawling on my head and neck at that time. Isn't this what the books call "qi sensation"? This incident touched me a lot and I became very interested in traditional medicine. Since then, I have worshipped his old man as a teacher, every year, summer and winter vacations off and on to learn Chinese medicine acupuncture and massage, naturally, the university is also enrolled in the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

See here, many friends will ask, you're not self-taught Chinese medicine ah, obviously have a master know, and went to read the class, how to call "self-taught" it?

Next, here's what I've been saying for the last twenty years.

I was first interested in medicine, and then self-study "Huang Di Nei Jing", and then study the external treatment of traditional Chinese medicine, for the meridians, acupoints, holistic concepts, including the concept of qi, etc., there is a certain understanding, before I began to learn prescription, but I found that after the university, the more you learn the more confused, the more you learn the more confused, the textbooks of the university is like a hundred schools of thought, every kind of theory, each kind of dialectical approach are Tell you, but in the clinic, you do not know how to use, and do not know the patient in the end to use the eight steel dialectic, or visceral dialectic, or qi, blood, Ying and Wei? San Jiao dialectic? Six meridians?

I believe that a lot of graduates of the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine into the clinic, there is such a confusion. Here I say my opinion, I was not yet in college when I have been in the help of the master to receive the clinic, although the use of acupuncture, but also have to argue ah, my master told me two words - "yin and yang". Let me realize it myself! Fortunately, I have had the "Nei Jing" before the base, for the yin and yang have a certain understanding, so the side practice, the side summarized. Only then did I have my own clinical system, and by the time I went to college, I began to come into contact with traditional Chinese medicine and prescriptions, and I always centered my understanding around my own framework.

I'm not afraid to laugh, but I basically didn't take my college textbooks seriously. What for? I went back to a master who called me prescription, we do not a find a master, he will teach you hand in hand. Can only say that you think too much, my master then gave me a task - first memorize the book.

Carry what? Carry it.Shennong's Classic of the Materia Medica。

When you've memorized it, then you start to memorize itA Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of the Typhoid Fever

Don't ask questions during the period, and when you're done memorizing, the teacher will focus on answering any questions you don't understand.

Then I realized that when I went back and re-read the Nei Jing, I learned something new each time. That's how I got to where I am now, step by step.

I see a lot of friends have different learning paths and methods in the comments section, I am talking about my own learning process, although there is a teacher to point out, but also basically rely on their own self-study. As the saying goes, "the master leads the door, the practice is in the individual".

There are many ways to self-study, here I recommend the learning path of a peer I know (people's clinical level is also very high), he basically also self-study, he heard people say that as long as you memorize theThe Golden Book of Medicine.He believed in it and practiced it, and the result was that he did succeed.

Chinese medicine books, thousands of years, as vast as the sea, each family has its own specialty, no matter which you learn, in the final analysis is to serve the clinical, Grandpa Mao said - practice makes perfect!

The above is my journey of learning medicine, I recommend it to you, I hope it can help you who love Chinese medicine and are still lost.

This is Langzhong Xiao Yang, if you have any different views, please feel free to leave them in the comment section.

Self-taught Chinese medicine has "From hard to easy."and"proceed from easy to difficult (idiom); to start from the easy part to the hard part"Two Methods Recommended:

1. From hard to easy

The so-called "from hard to easy" is both from the four classics of Chinese medicineStarted studying the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, the Divine Husbandman's Classic of the Materia Medica, the Classic of Difficulties, and the Treatise on Miscellaneous Diseases of the Typhoid Fever.

Since ancient times, all the masters of Chinese medicine in history have respected the discussions of the four major classics. These are the sources of Chinese medicine, and many of the classical treatises of later generations of physicians were developed from the Yellow Emperor's Internal Canon. For example, Li Dongyuan's Treatise on Spleen and Stomach of the School of Complementary Soil is a play on the purposes of the Internal Canon and the Classic of Difficulties.

However, these writings originated more than 2,000 years ago during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the entire text is in the literary language, which is so profound and obscure that it is very difficult to read and understand without a profound knowledge of the literary language.

To learn acupuncture and moxibustion, you can read "Acupuncture and Moxibustion A and B Jing" and "Acupuncture and Moxibustion Dacheng"; to learn pulse method, you can read Li Shizhen's "Pulse Learning at the Brink of the Lake". Li Shizhen's pulse book, in the form of poetry to express 27 kinds of pulse, read it carefully, then feel its description is very apt, the writing is profound, very recommended to learn.

So if you want to learn TCM you must study the four classics.

2. From easy to difficult

Undergraduate TextbooksBasic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, FormulasThese books are easy to understand, use modern words to understand and relay the ideas of the ancients, and are suitable for most people, making them good reference and study materials. There are alsoPharmacognosy Fugue, Three Character Classic of MedicineBooks such as these are easy to read and easy to memorize, and can easily guide us into the halls of learning Chinese medicine.

Jiangxi Province, the famous old Chinese medicine professor Yao Meilin "clinical pulse 16 lectures" will be subdivided into more than three dozen pulse method, but the classification method is simple, easy to understand the operation, is not a self-study of the pulse method of a good guide material.

Taiwan's master acupuncturist, Ni Haixia, talks about Human Chronicle Acupuncture, a wide range of topics, and his lectures are witty, humorous, and easy to understand, as well as being the preferred reference for self-study acupuncture.

In short, the learning method that suits you is the best. Self-study of Chinese medicine can not be separated from hard work and study, if three days fishing and two days sunshine net, is not good to learn Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is very suitable for the treatment and recuperation of "sub-health" in our society nowadays. Learning Chinese medicine is very beneficial to oneself and one's family.

I wish you all good health and happiness as you tune up your body with Chinese medicine.

Thanks for the invitation. Let's talk about it in the context of my own experience.

First you have to make sure that you do like the business and are willing to pay for it.Studying medicine requires lifelong learning, and it's hard to stick with it without constant motivation.Learning Chinese medicine is like planting a fruit tree, the initial investment and payment will be a lot, but once it starts to blossom and bear fruit, the spiritual and material rewards will be inexhaustible to you.

I myself come from a background of institutional learning, having spent five years in undergraduate school and three years in graduate school. School was heavy and there was tons of stuff to memorize, however, while shadowing a teacher during the summer of my junior year I realized that I couldn't even write a decent prescription and couldn't question a patient, to put it bluntly.

I have to thank my mentor, Yao Gong, who was a teacher of Western medicine and later studied typhoid fever under Mr. Men Chunde, a famous doctor in Yanbei, and Mr. Chen Yiren, a famous doctor of typhoid fever. He could read the corresponding texts of the diseases he encountered during his consultation, and after memorizing the texts, he started to explain them to us word by word and sentence by sentence. Mr. Yao was very strict with us, requiring us to memorize the entire Treatise on Typhoid Fever and The Essentials of the Golden Chamber. While learning the classics, we should not forget the fundamentals, that is to say, the rationale, method, prescription and medicine, which still required a lot of memorization of the classics, such as The Three Character Classic of Medical Science, The Fugue of Medicinal Properties, The Four Hundred Flavors of Medicinal Properties, The Recipes of Soup and Pulse of the Lyinghu Lake.

After mastering the fundamentals, we should also visit famous teachers, the master leads the door, the cultivation is in the individual, but the famous teachers can produce high students, only standing on the shoulders of giants you can see farther. Follow the teacher is not the same as mechanical copying, do not understand the thinking behind the use of drugs and then copy more is useless. This idea is not only the teacher's explanation, you should also study hard and ask questions, that is, the"Gnosis".

In addition to visiting famous doctors through the path of attending clinics with them, you can also study the medical cases of famous doctors.Read the medical case should never be like reading a novel, read the medical case to have their own thinking, after reading the pulse symptoms to think about what evidence to identify, with what formula, with what drugs, and then compared with the medical case to see what is different, only in this way is possible to get to improve. Only in this way is it possible to get improved. The reading of medical cases in the form of horse-riding is not worth advocating.

It is important to develop a TCM diagnostic and treatment mindset before going into the clinic.Correct diagnosis and treatment thinking is the key. Chinese medicine should be recognized and treated, the use of medicines, such as the use of soldiers, soldiers are not in the many, only to take their ability, the medicine is not in the complex, only to take its effect. It is very important to unify the formula with the method. Grasp the main evidence, use the main medicine, to know that the use of medication when all sides = all sides.

Thank you! To be a good Chinese medicine practitioner, you must do the following:1. Take the patient as your relative. 2. Inherit and carry forward the principle of dialectical treatment of traditional Chinese medicine. 3. In the continuous practice, 'diligently search for the ancient teachings, and learn from all the recipes'. 4. For the early recovery of the patient's pain and suffering, you should be dedicated to your duty. 5. Focus on summarizing the rationale, method, formula, and medication in treating the difficult and serious illnesses, so as to be passed on to future generations.

First learn the nine fears and eighteen antinomies

I am self-taught in TCM. Some people say that it is difficult to learn Chinese medicine on one's own and that it is best to have a teacher. Perhaps I am too arrogant, when I first read the "Medical Zong Jinjian" I couldn't help but think: what kind of teacher in reality would be more detailed, thorough and in-depth than this book?

As expected, the further you go, the more you feel self-study is addictive. When you read the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, you feel that Zhang Zhongjing is teaching you, and when you read the Treatise on Warm Diseases, you feel that Wu Jutong, the teacher, is very verbose. Yes, in fact, you have completely adapted to this learning method. May I ask, which teacher would teach in such detail and systematically?

The hardest part of self-study in TCM is the beginning, you are like being in the middle of a labyrinth of weather, there are paths everywhere, but you can't get anywhere. Until you start to get a sense of direction after three years. Don't be proud, the farther you go, the more you will feel this labyrinth is amazing, so you continue to go, maybe another three years later, you begin to transform, more and more like a magician, the roadside grass, under the rock of a worm, in your hands can be turned into a cure for the disease, exciting enough, right?

By chance, you meet the guy you almost worshipped back then, and you discuss TCM theories together, suddenly realizing that he probably doesn't know as much as you do! Isn't that great? But of course, you have to be humble, after all, he has been through a lot of battles. So if you ask him for clinical experience, he will be happy to teach you. He will be happy to teach you. He will even promise to let you practice in his clinic in your spare time, ah, that kind of sense of accomplishment is worth being proud of for a while. By the way, this is my experience, I hope you have enlightenment.

For a medical student, learning Chinese medicine can start from the four classics of Chinese medicine, there are "Huangdi Neijing", "Typhoid Miscellaneous Diseases", "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", "difficult to understand", although Chinese medicine is esoteric, difficult to understand, but slowly learn to read more and more, and slowly on the understanding. As the saying goes, "Read a book a hundred times and its meaning will emerge", "Read a thousand volumes and write like a god".

Also need to read the "basic theory of Chinese medicine", "Chinese medicine internal medicine", "Chinese medicine", "acupuncture", "meridian acupoints", "Chinese medicine diagnostics", "formulary", "Tuina" and so on, nowadays various Chinese medicine colleges and universities, all the people learning Chinese medicine need to learn Western medicine, and nowadays all the clinical all the people will be examined for the disease is to learn Western medicine, after all, the Western medicine is the mainstream, will be looking at the disease you not only need to learn Chinese medicine, the More need to learn Western medicine.

In Chinese medicine, there are acupuncture, massage, Chinese herbal medicine are clinical foundation, learning Chinese medicine, not only learning, but also need to combine with clinical practice. Summarize and improve in the clinic.

To learn Chinese medicine well requires not only perseverance, but also patience, meditation, and perseverance in research.

In short, there are three points, learn the basics, read the classics, go to the clinic, build a good foundation, learn to apply, and constantly reflect and summarize to improve yourself.

Chinese medicine aspirants speak very well, learning Chinese medicine that is simple and difficult, ordinary Chinese medicine, a qualified junior high school graduates can learn, the prerequisite is, must love this line, to say that difficult. The depth of the bottomless. Put the general Chinese medicine, as well as diagnosis and treatment, maintenance of the four sides. I am walking over, I tell my learning method for enthusiasts to refer to. Around eighty years, I bought a book "higher Chinese medicine diagnosis", new edition. The author has to have more than a dozen, now this book from my friend's home, if there is a favorite, take the time to send a photo, that book has two centimeters after the sixteen open version, to read this book, need three to four years, see the end, the front forget all, is all memorized, to the clinical diagnosis is also a trick.

In Chinese medicine, the first to determine the goal, in this book, there are yin and yang dialectics, eight programs, qi and blood dialectics, dimensional points dialectics, six obscene dialectics, meridian dialectics, five elements dialectics and so on .......... This set of dialectics can also be argued to the students dizzy, is really able to memorize these dialectics to, but only in the podium to preach a gas, or write a few papers, can not be practical. The purpose of my study of Chinese medicine is diagnosis and treatment. How can I learn to diagnose and treat?

There are four kinds of diagnosis, looking, smelling, questioning and cutting, looking to know the disease is God, smelling to know the disease is holy, questioning to know the disease is fine, cutting to know the disease is skillful, I don't want to be a god, I don't want to be a saint, I just want to be skillful to see the disease, that is, to cut the pulse. In pulse cutting, there is also waiting for the pulse.

Waiting for the pulse: it is floating to take and wait for the pulse to come. There is a saying that the weather is unpredictable and can only be waited for, that is, waiting for the weather to cut the earth's qi. Cutting the pulse is in the take and sinking to take, floating to take can know the God in, sinking to take can know the root of the disease, in the take can know the pain of the disease, as long as the students of the sensitive fingers, every day to find twenty or thirty pulse, not out of the three months will be able to master the pulse. Learning the pulse, and then deal with the Zang Fu, learn the Zang Fu to recognize the disease. Thereafter, students according to the learned pulse to view the cases in this book, preferably with the teacher, while learning, while practicing, from the pulse to analyze the pathology, in the plus air to learn the Tangtou song plus and minus, if these learn through, is a very good doctor, you can diagnose the condition. At this point, then study pharmacology, turn back and read the dialectic again, read the last two sentences to know the following,. This is the learning method of ordinary Chinese medicine, the students can only be used as a reference. Only because the understanding is different. .............

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Cultivate the nature and nourish the mind, and meditate on the mind. If you are in a fickle mood you must not learn. Observe things from the yin and yang attributes, and be quiet as water in dealing with others. Combine this with books and observe the character of everyone around you. .......

I think, if you want to learn Chinese medicine for beginners, the book "New Summary of Chinese Medicine" is very good, from the shallow to the depth of the crystallization of the diagnosis and treatment.