How to learn Chinese medicine from scratch if you have no basic knowledge of Chinese medicine?
How to learn Chinese medicine from scratch if you have no basic knowledge of Chinese medicine?
Although the medical path, the genus of the middle stream, but is able to save the lives of the academic, can not be easily taught, but also can not just learn. The first thing to be clear is the purpose of learning medicine, if in order to make money, rich and powerful, advise you to change your profession, Chinese medicine can ensure that the healer's subsistence, the blessing of the children and grandchildren, it is not possible to be rich and powerful, the healer's benevolence, there are some patients who even have a problem with food and clothing, how to prescribe more meaningless drugs to aggravate the burden on him.
Clearly the purpose of learning Chinese medicine, you can learn Chinese medicine, the most basic can start by reading the "Huang Di Nei Jing", Chinese medicine is a general medicine, to have a certain degree of ancient languages and the foundation of Chinese studies, Nei Jing if you can not read the book "Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine", edited by Prof. Li Dexin, is the basic textbook of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. And then read the Neijing, Neijing is a holistic concept, including the human body's physiology, pathology, meridians, acupuncture, but also includes the laws of heaven and earth, the five movements and six qi, which reflects the thinking of the Chinese medicine treatment. Next, you can read "Shennong Ben Cao Jing", this scripture is the basic knowledge of Chinese medicine, do not understand can first read "Ben Cao Jing three collection of notes", and the college of "Chinese medicine" personally think that a lot of content deviates from the original meaning of the scripture, you can learn from it, but can not be fully convinced. After reading about Chinese medicine, you can study "typhoid", which is the diagnostic manual of Chinese medicine diseases, which has a large number of prescriptions, but not much medicine, beginners slowly understand can be used. After reading the theory of typhoid fever for Chinese medicine has a holistic understanding of the basic and then read other books, complementary earth school, cold school, nourishing Yin school, attacking the school, the fire God school, the school of warm disease, the school of Chinese and Western medicine through the school of the book, it will not be led to bias. Later, you can learn the basics of acupuncture, which is actually in the Neijing, but the Acupuncture and Moxibustion A and B Jing integrates the knowledge of acupuncture and moxibustion, which is easier to read and learn. I hope my answer can help you.


Thank you for the invitation. Let me first tell you why I started to learn Chinese medicine, and I have summarized a little bit of experience in the process of learning Chinese medicine.
1. What is the original purpose of learning? 2. What is the purpose of learning Chinese medicine? Is the original purpose of learning Chinese medicine still there?
1. I like Chinese medicine, Chinese medicine is rich in human feelings, I like the culture of Chinese medicine, I like the thinking of Chinese medicine, I like the spiritual connotation of Chinese medicine.
2. Learning Chinese medicine is to cure the disease, my relatives are sick, Western medicine can not be cured, and did not get the treatment of Chinese medicine, loved ones died of illness, I feel guilty, learning Chinese medicine in order to cure the disease. At least for the sake of family members, to solve their own problems. In addition, in order to prevent diseases, learn some simple ways to maintain health. Why learn Chinese medicine? The trees want to be quiet, but the wind will not stop, the children want to raise but the parents do not wait. What is the purpose of learning Chinese medicine? Not to get rich and famous, only for the health of yourself and your family.
3. In the process of continuous learning may encounter a phenomenon, that is, a big expert or the more people say the more metaphysical, the more they feel they have the level of treatment of disease? Either I Ching or Tao. Who do not understand. Do not be overly obsessed with experts, a Chinese medicine foundation of their own to start, the road is simple, learning Chinese medicine, there is no such thing as pretending to be a bully, do not understand more than read, read a hundred variations of the meaning of the book since the emergence of the really can't, look for acquaintances, find people who understand the thinking of traditional Chinese medicine. The simplest not to spend money is your neighborhood next to the Chinese medicine clinic, take what you see the basis of Chinese medicine, do not understand a little bit of point to ask, of course, this is an extreme example, some people can not wipe their face ah. Then how to do it? This requires someone to lead you into the door of Chinese medicine. Cultivate interest for yourself, from where to cultivate it?
Chinese medicine, such as many medicines and food with the same source and so on Meridian, from the thinking of Chinese medicine to learn the anatomy of Chinese medicine Chinese medicine concepts, such as the five viscera and six bowels Do not be greedy for more, there must be a road in front of the mountain.
Must Read Books {Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine} {Chinese Medicine} {Chinese Medicine Diagnosis}
The above books are rather boring you can start by reading the comic book version of the lazy bunny "Speak Medical
(Written by: Mr. Da Ke, Chinese Acupuncture and Massage Class of the Chinese Newspaper)
You want to learn Chinese medicine zero basis, ask the high school students to get into medical school has a foundation, the key is in my want to learn, willing to eat this bitter. As long as you have this determination, have this perseverance, I think you can certainly learn well, have the will to compete, I wish you success.
Chinese medicine is profound, without a certain amount of basic knowledge is not good to learn, the first condition is to love, not for the money to learn; secondly, you have to worship the teacher.
A friend of mine is a Chinese medicine practitioner, from her grandfather's generation is to see people's illnesses of Chinese medicine doctor, to her generation is the third generation, her son did not enter the profession.
In her generation, her brother and sister plus her three Chinese medicine experts, all inherited the traditional craft of their fathers and went to the Chinese medicine school, the brother is to see the general medicine, the sister to see the dermatology, she is in the pediatrics attainments, gynecology and gastrointestinal also good, from the doctor for decades many patients.
She said, dry medicine to love it, to study, to read more, the mind should be clear, a patient a prescription, prescribe the wrong medicine is a life-threatening accident, medical ethics and medical skills are just as important.
There is no basis for learning from scratch, I think the first thing to learn is to learn the way of thinking of Chinese medicine, that is, the worldview of Chinese medicine, the ancient way of looking at the world.
You can't fill your brain with TCM content that you were raised with western thinking, you can't absorb it even if you force it in, you won't use it, you won't understand it.
Where is the thinking of Chinese medicine? Chinese traditional culture, the Four Books, the Five Classics, although not all learn, but more or less always need to learn a little. There is a little bit of traditional thinking to learn Chinese medicine faster, the so-called "Xiu Cai learning medicine in the cage to catch the chicken".
Exactly how to start learning it/? Looking over the path of famous and old Chinese doctors, the experience of all old Chinese doctors is nothing but two, the first is to start from the classics, from difficult to easy, or from easy to difficult to trace the origin. Regardless of that path, it is actually possible.
Of course, in the opinion of the two sheep, so that depends on the individual's learning purpose and motivation, the specific operation is slightly different. Do you want to learn systematically? Learn to cure the disease? Or general amateurs, usually on the Chinese medicine health, not too high requirements?
The path to learning is different for different purposes.
Hobbies determine results, and it is because of hobbies that many people are able to study and begin to delve into them, and then they become experts once they get started. Chinese medicine requires a clear understanding of the five elements, the five organs, the I Ching, the natural laws of the seasons, etc., but the more you learn, the more interesting. A lot of it is integrated, and I'm a hobbyist, too, and I'm slowly coming to grips with it.
Hobby is the biggest teacher, Chinese medicine learning is relatively boring, the content is not easy to understand, if you have this hobby, when to learn is not too late, if it is used to make money to support the family suggests that the children from the beginning of the teacher to learn the art of Chinese medicine colleges and universities for further study!
If you want to learn after 8 years can be prescribed to see daily illness, read the undergraduate unified textbook. If you want to learn 5 years can be after acupuncture and massage treatment read "Huangdi Neijing". If you want to learn 1 year after you can prescribe treatment, read "Typhoid Fever", but need to be guided by a wise teacher.
Hopefully more people will understand.



First learn the four basic "Chinese Herbalism", "Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine", "Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine", "Formulary" to start, and then learn the four classics, I wish you early success! [Cheering]
As the old saying goes: 'A showman learning medicine is like catching a chicken in a cage'. If you are a regular university graduate, elementary school (writing skills) is good, self-study Chinese medicine is no problem. Learning medicine in ancient times, are under the famous doctor, initially memorized 'medicine fugue' 'soup song', identify drugs, assist in concocting medicines, grasp the medicines transfer of medicines, do this miscellaneous work. Later on, they learned medicine from masters, gradually involving knowledge of the Internal Canon, the Treatise on Typhoid Fever, materia medica and pulse science.
Nowadays, in order to study Chinese medicine in Chinese medicine colleges and universities, one must first study the unified textbook "Basic Theory of Chinese Medicine", "Chinese Herbal Medicine", "Formulary" and "Diagnostics of Chinese Medicine". On this basis, the study of "Internal Canon", "Treatise on Typhoid and Miscellaneous Diseases" and "Warm Diseases", etc., which are the basic disciplines of Chinese medicine. Subsequently, clinical subjects are studied, and specific subjects can be chosen according to one's own preferences.
Learning from books is only the first step to enter the profession. In order to formally practise medicine, one should also obtain a Chinese medicine practitioner and a licensed Chinese medicine practitioner. It is better to follow a teacher for a period of time as it is risky to run a clinic on one's own when one has just obtained the qualification because one has no clinical experience.
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