It depends on the platform of your learning, with the perseverance of learning, with the effort spent, with the environment of learning, with whether there is a master teacher to lead the apprentice.

Normally it takes one year to learn Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine. The Diagnosis of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Herbal Medicine, and Formulas will take about 1 to 2 years. It takes 2 to 3 years to learn some practical medical works such as "Treatise on Typhoid Fever". Clinical excesses with teachers will also take 2 to 3 years.

Personally, I think that it takes about five years to learn TCM from the ground up and to enter the clinic. And it takes about three to five years for the clinical break-in period and transition period. That is to say, from learning Chinese medicine to becoming a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner, it takes about ten years.

My personal opinion is that every ten years of learning Chinese medicine is a grade, 10 years is a qualified Chinese medicine practitioner, 20 years is a good achievement, 30 years can become a generation of famous doctors, 40 years or more can be called a master. Of course, this depends on the enlightenment of each person who studies TCM. Those who are highly enlightened will have great achievements and accomplishments. Those who do not have enlightenment will learn to death for nothing.

Self-study of Chinese medicine, I learn faster, what method do I use? Read books, read prescriptions, at first I was my own stomach problems, hospitals went to several, time and money are wasted, the disease is still in the body, what to do? Once inadvertently look through the medical books, there is a cure for stomach disease prescription, according to the prescription, three days on the good, you say these doctors experts, do not want the people to look down on them, really useless! Later, my child was ten years old, still wet the bed every day, looking for a doctor to see said no good way to finally inquired about an expert in this area, ten doses of traditional Chinese medicine every day to boil, the trouble is also difficult to drink, a little bit of effect of the medicine, the medicine stops on the recurrence of the problem, we also have a headache over this, that day and inadvertently see the medical books, look through them, there is really a cure for the children's bedwetting formula, buy sulfur with onion, the same day the effect of the two broken, from then on the hobby! Look at Chinese medicine books, slowly more and more interested in Chinese medicine, and later on a variety of bruises and injuries are particularly interested in, because I love practicing martial arts, can not fight medical always incomplete, looking at the learning will cure, so that Hefei Provincial Hospital experts can not cure the sequelae of sprains are cured by me. Then later I and my family what disease, I will study what disease, as the so-called famous doctors can not catch up with the time doctor, all kinds of big diseases and small diseases difficult to deal with the difficult cases every time is the medicine to the disease, by now is a pass, what all understand, most of the disease will be treated, I don't have time to learn so much theory of Chinese medicine and the ancient classics of medical books, the function of a variety of medicines to know, it is the first time to look at his disease is caused by what to find the root of the disease, cure the disease is not difficult to learn. The root cause of the disease, the cure is not difficult to learn, the key to your interest, to concentrate, full attention, everyone's way of thinking is not the same, I see that the prescription can cure a certain disease, try to cure, effective I want to figure out why he can cure this disease, such as burns medicine, hemorrhoids medicine, the main study of the disease is how to form? If you are interested, you can find me to talk about Chinese medicine, I like to make friends in the Chinese medicine industry.

One year is all it takes to learn to be a doctor. (Barefoot doctors in the 1960s.) Read the book "Introduction to Chinese Medicine", the holistic view must not be forgotten. Know the external causes and internal conditions. One must understand the organs and viscera, the meridians and networks, the qi and blood, the fluids and fluids, and the essence. If you want to discuss treatment, you need to identify the evidence, Yin-Yang theory, the five elements. With four diagnosis, identify the eight outline. The theory of typhoid, six meridians to identify. The theory of warm diseases is based on the theory of Ye Gui. The theory of miscellaneous diseases is based on the theory of Zhongjing (中景). The 19 articles of the Disease Mechanism. Read Chinese medicine, 400 flavors. If you choose a formula, it is the science of prescription.

I started studying TCM when my wife passed away from cancer, and I thought to myself that if my wife had cancer now, I would have a way to bring her back from the ghost gate without medication. If I had cancer, I could also use the same method to regulate myself. This kind of cancer-conditioning congeniality is just around the corner from you. It doesn't cost anything, it doesn't have any strange flavor, it doesn't have any toxic side effects, and it works day by day. By the way, it was because my wife died of cancer that I tried to find the simplest, most effective, least expensive, and completely non-toxic way to treat cancer. After 21 years of searching hard, I finally found this method. But God didn't give me this chance, my poor wife.

Speaking as a young student of Chinese medicine who studied Chinese medicine for seven years at the University of Chinese Medicine and worked in the clinic for more than ten years, I will share my own experience, and I don't know whether it will help or discourage you.

Talking on paper never works.

My father thought it was quite good for a girl to study medicine, so I went to Beijing University of Chinese Medicine as a science student. With consistent learning methods and attitudes to learn, seven years of institutional learning process, my academic performance is not bad, and successfully graduate from graduate school. However, when I worked only to realize that I do not know anything, even the door of Chinese medicine did not enter!

Truly a clinical endeavor, the patient is my best teacher.

From being a fledgling student to working in the clinic for more than a decade, patients have been the best teachers for my learning progress. Why is this patient cured? Why is that patient not effective? I recorded my doubts and experiences, and then looked for the answers in books, so that I slowly accumulated more and more cases.

Finding a good teacher is a shortcut to learning TCM.

Traditional Chinese medicine is all about masters and apprentices, so why is it that medical students graduating from school can't see patients. And it turns out that a teacher can graduate after three years of apprenticeship.

Find a good teacher to answer your questions and often a single sentence can make you open up. The master leads you to the door, the practice is in the individual.

To summarize, for Chinese medicine enthusiasts with no basic knowledge of Chinese medicine, how to learn Chinese medicine, the first step is to find a good teacher, start learning from the basics, more clinics with the teacher, more brainstorming, more summarization. Many teachers have told us that in order to learn Chinese medicine well, if you want to go fast, you can't go fast enough, you have to "realize", that is, to have the ability to realize, if you open one hole, then you will open a hundred holes.

But one thing, why do you study Chinese medicine? For the sake of altruism. Only with an altruistic heart will you be motivated to learn! It's never too late to start learning!

Learning simple and practical Chinese medicine preventive health care knowledge, can also help others! And pediatric massage can also help children to be healthy and reduce the needles and medicines, if we start from this point of view...everyone can become a good "Chinese medicine practitioner" soon!

Tell you directly, you learn Chinese medicine, learn a lifetime can not give you see the disease and effective treatment of the disease. The reason is as follows: first of all, you have to determine the theoretical basis of what you want to see, right, and then there must be diagnostic means is not it, and finally you have to be able to "prescribe the right medicine". That is to say, you have to start from the most basic theoretical basis (Chinese medicine should be yin and yang five elements) to start learning, and then, you have to learn to look and smell the right (Chinese medicine should not need a variety of Western medicine in the instrumentation), and finally you have to look and smell and smell and yin and yang five elements of the patient to accurately say that what the disease, but also a variety of prescriptions and a variety of prescriptions for the combination. From the theoretical basis, yin and yang and the five elements are not the source of all diseases in the human body? From the means to look and smell and ask whether it can know the cause of the disease pathology and the degree of development? In terms of medicine, no matter which medical science records the prescription, the medicinal properties are not based on experiments. Maybe it is taken for granted, such as the tile water in the Materia Medica, hanging rope and so on. Perhaps some people say that remedies are all folk verified and accumulated through life experience. So if you admit that it is the folk life experience summarized, is a prescription, pull what yin and yang five elements? Finally, you go through all the books on Chinese medicine to see how many diseases are recorded in total, how many can be treated, and whether there is a rational understanding of the disease and other issues. If China only had Chinese medicine, smallpox and chicken pox would be incurable diseases at the mercy of God, with reference to Kang Xi getting smallpox as a child. But learning Chinese medicine can fool people into buying health care products and whatnot.

Tell your own story, Chinese medicine graduated from the seven-year system, that is, the master's degree. After graduation to the local largest hospital Chinese medicine department work, because I grew up like to study, so the university did not graduate to see the doctor has two, work more than half a year to improve the technology faster, the patient is full, two o'clock in the middle of the night row of my outpatient clinic, over the wind of all the doctors, inpatient hospitalization, half of the patients are my, half of the outpatient clinic is mine, our section of the seven doctors, I am a person on top of the six. I gained great social fame, but I was ostracized everywhere in the department, and finally exhausted myself. Work to the fifth year, I feel like I'm collapsing, the director in the departmental meeting scolding, I finally chose to resign, the dean retained again and again, to give me the establishment of a new department of traditional Chinese medicine to let me be the director of the honestly I do not have the slightest attachment, just want to quickly leave this place. The resignation did not go well and dragged on for four months. This year, I opened my own clinic, monthly income of 200,000, patients booked to 1 month later. Although not in the big hospital scenery, but the days of peace and quiet, do not have to work night shifts, high income, before in the hospital only 8000 a month income, because I adhere to the pure Chinese medicine treatment, any western medicine and proprietary Chinese medicine are not used, so no kickbacks.

How to position yourself as a beginner in Chinese medicine

Lao Zhong Yi Xue Chinese Medicine Lecture Hall

May 23

The theoretical system of Chinese medicine is profound, only its founding work "Huang Di Nei Jing", it is enough to call the vast majority of ancient and modern Chinese medicine practitioners all their lives and can't peek at the whole picture of the mountain, not to mention the brilliant writings of the medical practitioners of the subsequent generations, as well as many experts and scholars in modern society sweat the writings of a great number of people.

Chinese medicine as a very strong academic medical science, is a thousand years of countless Chinese ancestors oral taste of a hundred herbs summarized, and then slowly sublimated with the fusion of Yi science as a practical and very mysterious medical science.

Chinese medicine belongs to a branch of traditional culture, its height and difficulty belongs to the essence of the science of easy, its mysterious and difficult to participate in the heaven and earth and weeping ghosts and gods. But after all, it originates from the grassroots, the grassroots public is the foundation of its survival and development, folk heritage and development is its soil and foundation, so it has a mysterious and difficult side, but at the same time more simple and grassroots side, simple and practical is its true origin.

My real connection with Chinese medicine seems to have happened because of the patronage of the Grim Reaper. Whenever I meet enthusiasts who want to learn Chinese medicine on their own and ask me for advice on how to learn Chinese medicine, I will tell them bluntly: In my personal experience, first of all, do not be superstitious about experts and masters, and do not read ancient classics for the time being, you should start with one or two prescription books and books on commonly used medicines in Chinese medicine that you think are more practical, and familiarize yourself with the basic knowledge of these medicines in terms of their nature and flavor, attribution, and basic functions, and at the same time appreciate how the predecessors used prescriptions and medicines for a certain disease. On the one hand, you should familiarize yourself with the basic knowledge of these drugs, such as their flavors, attributes, basic functions, etc., and on the other hand, you should try to understand how the predecessors used their prescriptions and medicines for a certain disease. Then start from a disease party, from their own and family members of the body practice to start, usually more contact with some practical experience of Chinese medicine practitioners, and often ask them for advice on the problems encountered, so you will slowly embark on the road of self-study of Chinese medicine. When you have accumulated a certain amount of experience and insights, you then go to read some ancient classics and modern writings in a targeted manner. Then, you may not be very far away from the door of entering the academic hall of Chinese medicine.

I have a friend who is a Chinese medicine enthusiast. In the late 1980s, he already studied Chinese medicine books very seriously, but up to now he still stays in the realm of a Chinese medicine enthusiast who cannot diagnose diseases and prescribe prescriptions. I have told him many times that he should intervene in the practice of Chinese medicine as early as possible, or else he would become more and more confused and confused. He always replied to me, "There is no hurry, my theoretical preparation is not enough, I may make a mistake". In the face of his cautious and prudent attitude, I can only laugh bitterly.

Of course, I do not object to those who take a very cautious approach to the study of Chinese medicine, but I do not subscribe to that view of excessive caution. I think that one should never be too rigid in recognizing books in the study of Chinese medicine, for that will inevitably lead one to fall into the box of bookishness and not be able to move forward. Just like fighting in wars, genuine militarists and war heroes have come out of bloodshed since ancient times, learning from wars before planning and commanding wars. Learning Chinese medicine is also the same as fighting a war, you can not read any theory first, start with a prescription for a disease, when you use a prescription for the first time to cure yourself or a family member of a disease, then you will have a very rich sense of achievement, you will have a hundred times more confidence in learning Chinese medicine. When you have cured ten conditions with ten remedies, then you will no longer be so confused about learning Chinese medicine. By this time, you then go to learn what is the theory of yin and yang and five elements, what is the six elements of disease, what is the eight syllabus identification and so on, you will feel that these theories are not so boring and difficult to learn, easy to understand. Because only practice can produce true knowledge, practice is our best teacher.

One of the biggest headaches in learning Chinese medicine is taking the pulse. Honestly, on the issue of pulse, generations of medical practitioners are almost only leisurely heart will not be able to say in fact. What "Frequent Lake Pulse", what experts to write the textbook, all can not say a sub ugly c and d. 20 kinds of pulse, who can take the pulse. More than twenty kinds of pulse, who can make it clear? Personally, I think that such a complex pulse, either the first person who wrote it out is really too smart, is a god, is a superman, the future generations can not reach him, or some later on in the Chinese medicine both general and not very general literati, in order to gain fame and fortune and weave out a scary mask. In fact, the pulse may not need to be so complicated, because the Chinese medicine of the four diagnosis of looking, smelling, asking, cutting, is to cut the pulse in the last, the real practical experience of Chinese medicine practitioners, through the look at the color of the breath, smell the voice, smell, and then carefully listen to the patient's statement, the patient's condition has been clear about seventy to eighty percent, and then through the pulse to further verify that is it.

But this is not to say that pulse taking is useless. In fact, pulse taking is very useful, and the accuracy rate of pulse taking by experienced Chinese medicine practitioners is also very high, and pulse taking is of great help in the accurate diagnosis of diseases. According to my personal experience, in the case of patients without saying a word, high blood pressure, blood concentration, blood viscosity, irregular heart rate, heart disease, headache, dizziness, kidney deficiency, frequent urination, lumbago, kidney stones, liver and gallbladder disease, gastritis, gastric ulcer, enteritis, respiratory diseases, as well as cold and hot symptoms, etc., generally can be seen in a general way. Some tricky patients, on the Chinese medicine would have been quite biased, and the folk Chinese medicine is even more with a discriminatory eye, but because of their own illnesses everywhere to seek medical help, but also because of the introduction of a certain person introduced to a certain Chinese medicine can be, so with a condescending mentality to visit the door to test. This kind of people often do not say a word, sit down and reach out and ask you to give the pulse. Encountered this kind of guests, we do folk Chinese medicine although no name, but really can not be in front of this kind of people, so as not to hand over to him in the future to talk about. So we have to honestly put three fingers respectively on his honorable right and left pulse door to carefully feel, and then calmly tell him what kind of disease he has. At this point, this honorable guest then became honest all of a sudden and said softly, "The doctor prescribes medicine." In my opinion, I am afraid that the kung fu of pulse-taking is more predominantly manifested in this aspect, is it not?

I think that the theory of pulse in ancient and modern books is necessary to read, but must not follow the way they teach you to do, otherwise you may not learn to take the pulse for a lifetime. I once asked an old folk Chinese medicine practitioner who is very good at pulse taking to teach me the true meaning of pulse taking, and he just said to me with a smile: "The patient is our best teacher". In fact, pulse taking is not that complicated, and does not need to be so complicated at all. As long as you grasp the key things, that is, the visitor's golden mouth does not open, we can also say his condition a six or seven percent.

I have the following advice for beginning herbalists:

First, start with a simple practice, learn the classic prescriptions of the previous generation, the right number of first learn from yourself or your family, to accumulate the first step of experience and build initial confidence. When you have this step of experience, even if you stop in the future, you can add a small insurance lock for their own health and that of their families, at which point your level should be positioned in a certain experience of Chinese medicine enthusiasts or folk herbalists position.

Second, to figure out what is yin and yang and five elements, learn how to use the theory of yin and yang and five elements to understand Chinese medicine, which is the theoretical preparation for entering the threshold of Chinese medicine.

Thirdly, you have to learn to take the pulse and recognize the evidence, which is the ticket to enter the threshold of Chinese medicine. Without this ticket, even if you have learned enough theories to become a post-doctoral fellow and a university professor, you will never be a genuine Chinese medicine practitioner.

Fourth, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine is the vault of Chinese medicine and the silver vault, which contains endless treasures.

Fifth, the Zhouyi is the staircase of the temple of Chinese medicine, and when you have this staircase, you may have the opportunity to freely enter and leave every room of this temple.

The question! Simply put, today you know that amaranth clears heat and toxins and clears damp-heat! Today you can cure damp-heat dysentery and diseases of damp-heat in the large intestine!

The key is that Chinese medicine is divided into big doctors, small doctors, herbalists and local doctors. The skills of each type of doctor vary, and of course, the learning time is different! In my last case, I was studying to be an herbalist! It was quick! You can use it as soon as you learn it!

This question is difficult to answer, and the key lies in intelligence. Yu Guojun, a famous Chinese medicine expert, took advantage of the one and a half years that other people spent on parading and fighting and posting big-character posters to study the undergraduate course of Chinese medicine and the main course of Western medicine. Once in the clinic on the reputation, three years on the pull table high-quality papers. I bitter blasphemy ten years later to be able to handle. But those around the senior sound bricklayer dry decades, will be a few parties to make a living.