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How to Learn Scripture

Hello, my name is Bao Yanju; today I'm sharing with you the topic of "How to learn scripture well".

Everyone has their own way of learning the scriptures, which can be described as benevolent and wise; I will share my own experience with you. Mainly by the following two points:

1. Establish the Hexagram system first, rather than memorizing the original text

Many people have both love and hate for the scriptures, love because the scriptures are the classics, good learning, the source and root of Chinese medicine; hate because the scriptures and classics need to be memorized from the original text, even the four major classics need to be memorized, or else the scriptures and classics are exempted from the discussion, which is also emphasized by many scripturalists. Memorization is indeed a very important step in our study of the classics, but it is not the only effective path.

Most of the first things we ask of our fellow practitioners who are better at learning and using scripture formulas are, "Have you memorized the Treatise on Typhoid Fever backwards and forwards?" In fact, sometimes it turns out not to be so. Those who recite the original text of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever backwards and forwards are not able to solve the problem clinically. Why? Because the complexity of clinical disease mechanism is far beyond what can be covered by a few articles in the Treatise on Typhoid Fever. The use of prescription emphasizes one side of a method, the original formula, the original amount, do not distinguish between serious and light, do not know the variation, will not be combined, will not add or subtract, mostly do not know the complexity of the disease performance. Of course, in the face of individual complex diseases, in the case of ineffective management of the integrated pathology, you can choose to "go in alone", using the original formula and original amount, less plus or minus, large doses, can also be effective, but this is definitely not the usual method.

I memorized the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" during my college years, and at that time, I also memorized the important articles because they were not used much in the clinic, and after I had memorized them, I soon forgot them. Later, I was fortunate enough to meet Mr. Feng Shilun, and began to be exposed to Hu Xishu's unique system of six-meridian diagnosis. The opening paragraph of "The Golden Annals of Medicine - Essentials of Typhoid Law" mentions that: the six meridians are all the diseases of typhoid, the gas is the same as the disease, the gas is different, and the form of the organ is not the same, because it is not from the class, so it has a lot of different things, and it is clear that the water and fire are superior to each other, and that the reason for the change from cold to hot is not difficult, and that the change of the changes is like a thousand other things, and that there is nothing more than the surface of the yin and yang. In particular, the saying that "there are thousands of changes, but no more than between the surface of yin and yang" is similar to our system of identification of the six meridians. Later on, my focus was on the establishment of the six-meridian system, especially on the basis of Hu Lao and Feng Lao's system for in-depth thinking, and under the guidance and help of Mr. Hua Baogin, Mr. Liu Guantao, and Mr. Zhang Lei, I wrote three books one after the other, namely, "Application of six-meridian system of diagnosis and application of meridian formulae and time-formulae, case study", "Grasping the main evidence and identifying the prescription evidence of common diseases", and "Independent and complete understanding of the meridian formulae and experimental record of medical cases", which basically laid down my system of six-meridian system of identification. These three books basically laid down my six meridians identification system, during which it took nearly eight years for the veins of my six meridians system to become clearer.

Before the establishment of the complete system of six meridians, I honestly do not have a full grasp of some of the diseases, some of the diseases are well, but also can not clearly point out why it is good, for the disease is not good, but also do not have a clear idea, even if there are some common diseases that should be cured, but also do not have a full grasp of the certainty that it will be good. After the establishment of a complete system, my understanding of the disease has risen to a higher level, and I pay more attention to the whole to consider, the efficiency has been significantly increased, the number of outpatient clinics from the original 20-40 people a day, to raise the daily clinic to more than a hundred people. Even if some diseases are not effective in the first treatment, by analyzing the substance of the six meridians in the second treatment, the deficiencies of the first treatment can be determined at once, which can ensure the effectiveness of the second treatment. Generally, our effective rate, within two times, is very high.

Without a system, a lot of knowledge is fragmented and cannot be integrated, and it is impossible to reach the top. I have encountered a lot of learning Jing Fang fellow, every year to spend a lot of time and tuition fees to go abroad to study, I heard who opened the Jing Fang training courses or the meeting of the Jing Fang go to participate in, every time to participate in the end is also very excited, I feel that their own level of improvement, but back to the clinic you will find a lot of doubtful questions are still not solved: "Why this patient should be valid, but instead of invalid? Why is this patient's treatment not effective? Why is this patient's treatment surprisingly effective when he has no bottom line at all?" "Why can't I replicate the very effective treatment of the disease that the teacher talked about in the training program?" , to answer these questions, I think the main reason is that the knowledge learned is not systematized, systematized.

As long as you are a love of learning, good at learning, learning the teacher's knowledge, in the clinical reproduction can not be, that is largely not your problem, but the teacher's knowledge system of the problem. We all know there is a saying: "after the famous doctor no bright doctor", often does not lie in the presence or absence of a famous doctor, the main thing is that the famous doctor his system has a problem, resulting in many people can not learn, can not be copied.

2. Analyze the disease mechanism in depth first, instead of memorizing the prescription

Disease mechanism is the core of Chinese medicine, the level of Chinese medicine doctors, reflected in the level of analysis of the level of disease mechanism, not in the use of the prescription or the prescription, and not you use the prescription is a master.

Many people study the scriptures, just want to remember a few formulas, so-and-so formula to treat so-and-so disease, and do not need to identify the symptoms, see what symptoms, use what formula, relatively simple, after learning a few scriptures as a secret recipe to use, although it can also cure some diseases, but the total or can not be essentially improved, can not become everyone.

We all know that when we talk about prescription, we know that there is "correspondence between prescription and evidence", "catching the main evidence", "identifying the evidence of prescription", and we tend to neglect the disease mechanism. In fact, the process of using sutra prescription is also to analyze the prescription and the symptoms, like to compare the symptoms described in the sutra prescription in the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" with the patient's main evidence, and if it is correct, then the prescription corresponds to the evidence and the patient can use the original prescription, and if it does not correspond to the original prescription, then the patient can not prescribe the medication. Often I heard some colleagues describe meridian prescription in this way: "If the meridian prescription corresponds to the main evidence, it will have a surprising effect, but very often the clinical manifestations of the patients are so different from the characteristics of meridian prescription that it is not possible to apply the meridian prescription, so I don't use the meridian prescription to treat the internal medicine diseases, but also to treat the clinical miscellaneous diseases." I think that "the six meridian system of the typhoid theory is only for treating exopathogens" is wrong, and the main core is that the understanding of the disease mechanism has not risen to a higher level.

It is also clear that the description of the prescription is exactly the same as the patient's main evidence, but the prescription is ineffective when used instead.

To solve this problem and improve the efficiency of treatment, it is necessary to conduct in-depth research on the disease mechanism of Chinese medicine, not only to recognize it, but also to be able to identify it.

The six meridian system of diagnosis mentioned earlier is only the general direction of diagnosis, many subtle disease mechanism can not be ignored. Therefore, some doctors in the clinic use meridian prescriptions and ignore the subtle disease mechanism analysis, so the level of clinical diagnosis is low, and it is difficult to become a great doctor. In the following courses, I will share with you in detail the six meridians system and the process of analyzing the disease mechanism.

I believe that the six meridian system and the analysis of disease mechanism are the two most important points for learning Jingfang well, after these two points are solved, then learning specific Jingfang and applying Jingfang, in order to be able to get used to it, and to be able to integrate it, and finally to be able to reach the sky, and to be able to come and go alone.

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It is recommended to learn from the perspective of use. Don't get hung up on too much theory, learn to use it first. Just like cell phones and computers, we don't necessarily need to understand the principles, but can be used very well.

The sutra formulas in the typhoid theory have this feature, you can learn to use them first, it's not difficult at all, from the point of view of the correspondence between the formula and the evidence, of course, this is not the only way to learn. But it is a good way to start, for example, if you have a cold, you can directly look at the symptoms, are you afraid of cold, are you sweating? According to these basic symptoms, you can use the formula. If you can't remember the formula, it's okay to look it up in a book, and use it according to the method described in the book.

The use of ephedra soup for bad cold and no sweat, and the use of cinnamon stick soup for sweat and fear of wind, is very intuitive and not difficult to learn from the experience of using it. You can slowly deepen from the drug flavor by flavor to learn, for example, when to use ephedra, when to use gui zhi, when to use ginger, when to use dry ginger, from the use of the point of view to learn is not difficult at all.

Just this is like the ordinary people do not understand the principles of the car, but can learn to drive the car well, learn to drive, Chinese medicine is very often similar, although the principles do not understand, too deep theory will not, but does not prevent us from using.

So my advice is to learn it from the perspective of using it, and not get too hung up on words and vague theories.

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It is a great fortune in life to be able to read Zhongjing's posthumous works, The Treatise on Typhoid Fever and The Essentials of the Golden Poverty. First of all, when you read these two books, you have to let go of all the knowledge in your mind, all the ideas, and completely trust the contents of this book, and only when you let go completely can you realize the great significance of these two books.

Some people say that "The Treatise on Typhoid Fever" is a book specializing in the treatment of exopathic diseases, and it is even categorized as a school of Chinese medicine, the Typhoid School. This is a superficial perception. The Treatise on Typhoid Fever starts from the six meridians and discusses in detail the movement of exogenous evil qi in the human body. Although the evil qi is caused by exogenous infection, many internal injuries will occur in the human body after the movement of the evil qi. When exogenous diseases are mistreated, multiple internal injuries can also occur. It is here that Zhang Zhongjing discusses the various changes in the human body. It is said that "although one may not be able to cure all diseases, one may be able to see the source of the disease".

At the same time, "the theory of typhoid fever" is not to the eight program of internal organs dialectics for diagnosis and treatment, independent of the six meridians, which can be described as a great saint of the ancient times, and there is no one who can be out of its right. This avoids the complexity and uncertainty of the dialectic of internal organs. The positioning of the six meridians is much higher than that of the eight syllabi. But later people do not know this method, more from the "Yellow Emperor's Classic" yin and Yang five elements, although the knowledge of the disease is too "typhoid fever", but the treatment of the disease is not as good as the "typhoid fever", so the "Yellow Emperor's Classic" and "typhoid fever" and "typhoid fever", but "typhoid fever" but the achievements of Zhang Zhongjing's name of the saint of medicine.

People without any basic knowledge can also read and understand the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, the so-called "The Way is Simple". As long as one follows the text of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, one does not need to think too much, and reads the entire treatise, connecting the dots before and after, one is a clinical expert. Do not take the words out of context, every sentence, every medicine should be placed in the context of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" to understand, so that you can understand Zhang Zhongjing, read and understand the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever", not only to protect the body long full, but also to save the poor and lowly doom. The greatness of the Treatise on Typhoid Fever!

First of all, I declare that I am a soon-to-be-graduated Chinese medicine student, looking back on these years of study, I have a lot of feelings ......

I think it is not a bad thing to have no foundation in Chinese medicine. On the contrary, one will not be bound by the rules and regulations of books, and one's mind will be purer and more open.

I do not oppose the teaching mode of the academy, but I am more in favor of teacher succession, if you can follow the teacher around the diagnosis and copy the prescription is no better, the progress will soar, and now there are adult education in traditional Chinese medicine to recruit Chinese medicine enthusiasts to study under a teacher, if there is time to have a high desire to learn this is undoubtedly a choice.

Of course, self-study is also a way to learn Chinese medicine, since learning, we should have strong beliefs, perseverance, and adhere to the combination of theory and practice.

First of all, the choice to read typhoid fever, there is such a realization is very good, at least proves that you pay attention to the study of the classics, a lot of people studying Chinese medicine simply do not take typhoid fever theory of miscellaneous illnesses, Huang Di Nei Jing, such as the classic works in the eyes, and do not pay attention to, the clinical effect can be imagined.

Nowadays, many in the clinical effect is outstanding, the vast majority of the use of typhoid fever inside the formula, although a few drugs but the effect is very good, the reason is worth looking into.

Secondly, the typhoid fever theory of Chinese medicine such books out of the book age and our age is far away, and our foundation of the ancient Chinese language is relatively weak, reading is relatively difficult, no foundation will obviously also increase the difficulty, no matter what we do, the more solid the foundation, we can go farther, the more solid, so if you really want to learn Chinese medicine, you must learn the foundation of Chinese medicine, you should pay attention to the study of "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine".

In fact, reading Huang Di Nei Jing is not at all easier than Typhoid Fever, or even more difficult, but this covers all the basics of Chinese medicine, it is normal to not understand it, you can recite or read it every day, and then relate it to our lives, over time you will have some concepts and understandings of all aspects of yin and yang and the five elements of Chinese medicine, and of course, you can also watch the videos that explain the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, such as Qu Limin, Xu Wenbing, Wang Hongtu's explanation, etc.

At the same time, you need to memorize the 398 articles of the "Treatise on Typhoid Fever" and the important articles in the "Essentials of the Golden Chamber", the content of the memorization can be Baidu article by article memorization, you can also refer to the "formula for the use of the formula" according to the formula categorization memorization. I believe that memorization is a basic skill, memorized in order to use in order to be at ease.

Finally, choosing a school system, in other words, a dialectical thinking, the current annotations of the school quite a lot, choose a different future development of different. I have read Cheng Wu Ji's commentary, also watched Hao Wanshan and Ni Hai Xia's video, but I think it is still Hu Xishu's explanation of typhoid and Jin Gui that is the best, easier to get started, practical, and the six meridians and eight syllabi have been respected by many people. For books on Hu's academic thinking, you can purchase Hu Xishu's Lectures on Typhoid Fever and Hu Xishu's Lectures on the Essentials of the Golden Chamber, as well as books such as Faxing Prescriptions, Hu Xishu's Disease Location Classes, and Insights on Prescriptions.

The above is my personal rough understanding, I hope to be useful to you and the general Chinese medicine enthusiasts, if there are questions about Chinese medicine, you can discuss and learn together.

Middle-aged people are characterized by a rise in comprehension and a decline in memory. So to learn something new, you must catch your own characteristics.

If your comprehension rises, you should focus on understanding when you study, and if your memory falls, you should not force yourself to memorize too much. Can remember of course good, a moment can not remember, repeated many times to see, read more appropriate learning materials, learning from multiple perspectives, to help their understanding and memory. This will not be very tired, but also easy to remember.

I am afraid that it is difficult to read the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber directly without any basic knowledge of Chinese medicine at all. The way to reduce the difficulty is to use these two works as the main line and add some feeder contents, that is, the introductory stuff of Chinese medicine. Unless you are extraordinarily enlightened and have superb comprehension, it will not be easy to persevere if there is no progress in learning.

There are quite a few headlines on Chinese medicine in the headlines right now, and some of them are highly specialized. In addition to specializing in typhoid and jinzhi, you may want to read some of these articles, accumulation of less into more, grains of rice into luo, will help grasp the corresponding concepts of Chinese medicine, so as to better understand your main learning content.

In addition, if you have some foundation in I Ching, or the ancient language is very good, it may be easier to learn typhoid and jinxian, otherwise you have to be prepared for a long period of study.

If you wish, you can refer to the writings of Huang Yuan-you of the Qing Dynasty, and the Ancient Chinese Medicine in Circular Motion by Peng Zi-yi of the modern era, as well as some modern books, such as Yu Hao's The Way Between Doctors and the Lectures on Traditional Chinese Medicine by Ren Zhi Tang, etc. When you have reached a certain level, you can read Step into the Door of Traditional Chinese Medicine by Mao Elim, and so on.

Of course, there are quite a few books that have been written throughout the ages interpreting the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and the Essentials of the Golden Chamber, and they can be taken and read.

Because middle-aged people have a strong understanding, they can learn by "learning from all sources", specializing and expanding.

I have a complete knowledge base and video tutorials for learning Chinese medicine, the most recent one is Huangdi Neijing, and I will also share Ben Cao, Typhoid, Jin Gui, and so on, if you need to follow me, you will be able to see it!

For Chinese medicine enthusiasts or those who want to learn, there are generally three ways

1. school This is the source of most TCM practitioners nowadays, although the academy has also been criticized, mainly for its perceived westernization, impurity, and lack of focus on the classics

2. Teacher or family tradition. This is the traditional way of learning Chinese medicine. The good thing is to focus on the traditional classics, and some even have secret recipes and other inheritance. The disadvantage is that there are fewer people, fewer opportunities, can not be found!

3. Self-study. This depends on the individual. Chinese medicine related things are too many, self-study people, the biggest difficulty lies in not knowing what to learn, the benefit lies in the sky, may not be unable to become a master!

About the study method and order. The order recommended by Taiwan's prescription master Ni Haixia is Acupuncture, Neijing, Materia Medica, Typhoid, Jin Gui. Personally, I believe that the most important thing in self-study of Chinese medicine is to have trade-offs, to know what must be learned, what can be left out or learned later, and the most important thing is interest.

Honestly, it's okay not to have a foundation in Chinese medicine. That's how I came to be. At that time, I read "Medical Jinjian - Treatise on Typhoid Fever", which helped a lot. First of all, you don't have to expect to read it within a year, and don't rush it, just encourage yourself that once you've read through the book, to be humble, you've basically started; and in reality, you've basically practiced the Jiuyin Zhenjing, you just don't know how to use it. Oh, count on a joke and get to the point. Zhongjing book does not talk about yin and yang, five elements, meridians and veins, he is completely direct clinical guidance. The article itself is not difficult to understand, difficult to understand just do not know why, which requires a process. We can first roughly memorize the provisions, which will be of great practical help to us before we learn. For example, if you have a cold, fever, diarrhea, or other minor illnesses, you will be able to thank Zhongjing from the bottom of your heart if you have the right prescription.

After a year, you refer to some famous books of the later system of warming, which is mutually exclusive with the typhoid theory, otherwise you will never understand the typhoid theory in a deeper level. In this process must take time to study the materia medica, this is very important, if the materia medica sex flavor attribution Jing roughly memorized, we know the theory of typhoid fever. In addition, before knowing the theory of typhoid fever do not need to read the Golden Chamber of the Essentials too deliberately, in terms of learning efficiency is not cost-effective, because it is even more unintelligible. Once you have the foundation of the theory of typhoid fever, then read the main strategy of the Golden Chamber, there is only the question of whether to remember.

By the way, this time do not dwell on the yin and yang five elements and other metaphysical things, in fact, you have unconsciously cultivated this aspect of the thinking, want to forget can not forget it, haha, these two books are so cattle!

Learning about TCM, I've read a ton of articles, but I still haven't gotten to the point. Maybe it wasn't needed or something. My own current realization is that I still think it's better to start learning from the meridians.

Huang Di Nei Jing said, the meridians to determine the life and death of all diseases, adjusting the virtual reality can not be blocked. The meridian is the reason why people are born, the reason why the disease, the reason why people are treated, the beginning of the study, the work of the stop also.

Meridian is the ancient people in the form of words written out for future generations to follow the text to feel to learn the way of understanding, and finally to walk the path. As a result, now good knowledge of learning Chinese medicine ignored. In fact, the meridian understanding and learning to understand or to spend a lot of time to recognize. And not simply randomly look at the meridian theory book can be. Ancient people in order to let the future generations Ming Dao Ming meridian way is to spend a lot of thought. Hope to learn Chinese medicine knowledge, more to learn meridians, because it's decided to life and death, at the disease, adjusting the virtual reality is to attract everyone to recognize. Because there are some results so later generations of Taoists and Buddhists to learn Chinese medicine are here to spend a lot of effort to walk the path.

This is a very good question. As the old saying goes: "Learning medicine from a scholar is like catching a chicken in a cage". Without the foundation of Chinese medicine, there is a foundation of literature and knowledge of Chinese culture, which is also sufficient. The reason for emphasizing middle-aged people is that there is not much time left for them. I myself started studying the Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases in my forties, so I can appreciate the sense of urgency.

As for how to read it, it depends on what your purpose is. If it's simply for daily use, then read it a few more times to get an impression, clarify the terms you don't understand, and then you'll be able to apply the formula when the time comes; if you want to roam around the world of scripture and prescription, then you'll have to put in a little work. Everyone's study habits are different, either they have a favorite annotated version to delve into, or they read it in general. I am the latter, in the last six months about the "typhoid fever and miscellaneous diseases" books bought 50 or 60 books, now read half.

The person who asked the question must have his head up his ass. Western medicine is a specialty and Chinese medicine is even more difficult than Western medicine. Being a doctor is a discipline that does not allow any mistakes. Advanced Chinese medicine is based on the theory of typhoid fever, formal Chinese medicine colleges and universities after five years of study, in typhoid fever, is only a layman, can read and understand only. It is not recommended for those who specialize in it. Moreover, it is difficult to understand the theory of typhoid correctly under the influence of the so-called science.