What is difficult will not be, what will not be difficult. The reason why Chinese medicine is difficult to learn, first of all, is the mentality, followed by the method, practice is the test of learning to learn the standard. First of all, mentality, Chinese medicine people like to say fate, in fact, refers to the belief in Chinese medicine. Imagine, a report on the Chinese medicine in the end in the mind, every step to let the teacher with modern science to explain clearly to believe, the first step of the yin and yang and five elements let these people withdraw from the self. Speaking of which, when I was young, I first read the Neijing, the four words "heaven is round, earth is square" put me out of the game for more than 20 years. As my experience grows, I gradually understand the reasoning behind it. Heaven is round and earth is certainly limited by the conditions at that time, but it is also not lost in the use of Chinese medicine. The only way to learn is to be modest, and the scientific attitude is to first assume that the theory is right, and then confirm or falsify it in practice. Besides, the methodology of Chinese medicine has formed a whole set of theories, from the operation of the human body, to the correspondence with heaven and earth, inside and outside the body and its correlation, it can be said that it is very perfect. The evidence described in the Internal Canon and the cause of the disease due to behavior, but also very clear, and then talk about treatment. In my opinion, we must first start from the normal operation of the human body, the easiest and fastest to get started, and then the normal operation of heaven and earth and its impact on people, understand the bad habits that cause illness. Cure the disease, in fact, is to change the bad habits. The meridian Luo acupoints and acupuncture methods in the Neijing are good ways to recognize and treat illnesses. Medicine involves the typhoid fever theory Jin Gui Yao Liao and Shen Nong Materia Medica, typhoid fever system of six channels to identify the evidence, the later generation has eight outline identification, are from the evidence inverted to the cause of the disease mechanism, in fact, the Nei Jing in the non-normal manifestations, are the identification of the cause of the disease mechanism of the method. The four diagnostic methods of Chinese medicine, namely, observation, listening, questioning and cutting, are all derived from these classics. Group prescription involves the use of drugs, Shennong Ben Cao only talk about the flavor of the drug, pungent and sweet dispersal of yang, sour and bitter Chung Drain for yin, yang to complement yang, yin to complement the yin, the combination of cold and hot flavor, you can make up your own prescription, more with the scriptures, the effect is better. After learning these, it is left to practice, I believe that every self-learner will start from the self, eat and then summarize, summarize and then try. This is a stage that seems more dangerous to outsiders. At this stage, I first read the bias of the medicine and know its solution before I start on myself and finally succeeded in breaking through the barrier. I believe that as long as you have the mindset, interest, and willingness to work hard, you will be successful if you have the ability to understand. Although I have some experience, I do not dare to call myself a bone-setter, but I am still a self-study on the path of Chinese medicine and continue to work hard. I hope this reply can help some fellow practitioners, then my heart is very gratified.

I think there are two scenarios, you go to the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine by the book and follow the syllabus to complete the course, this is one scenario, and the other is that you have a family tradition of Chinese medicine, based on classical books and someone to point out.

The two cases are different, the first systematic study of Chinese medicine theory, and at the same time learning the theory of Western medicine, I like to compare the differences and advantages of the two theories of the Department of Chinese medicine when I went to school, and found that Chinese medicine is good to learn ah, looking at the smell and ask, diagnosis and treatment, as long as the memory of the basic can learn to use drugs, and then graduated and found that the evidence of the type of prescription is right is ineffective, such as Chinese medicine internal medicine of a variety of diseases of different types are clear, and many attempts declared ineffective really hit my confidence. Many attempts to declare ineffective really hit my confidence in Chinese medicine. There is an old Chinese doctor in the countryside who did not attend the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and queued up to see a doctor! Obviously Chinese medicine has great efficacy, it's just that what I learned may have been bad.

The first situation must think that it is very difficult to learn, trying hard to learn the real thing, the textbook editors either Liu Duzhou or Dong Jianhua, are big doctors, see the patient can not be lined up, our systematic learning how is not as good as the teacher with the apprentice?

Now that I am at the age of maturity, after so many years of fumbling with Chinese and Western medicine, and now that I have all but discarded Western medicine, I finally know how to use Gui Zhi Tang and Xiao Chai Hu Tang.

Nearly 30 years concluded that Chinese medicine is effective, and effective as a rafter, some of the disease can be done "a dose of knowledge, two doses have been", if Chinese medicine is not difficult to learn who believe that the enlightenment of Buddha this is also, but the family tradition is very simple, how I hope that the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is a civil society, there is no administrative constraints, you can choose to choose the religion, such as the course of the Zhouyi first to cultivate the students of Chinese thinking! Students of Chinese medicine thinking, do not have to graduate and then realize 30 years!

Chinese medicine is difficult to learn two main points, one is hard, a lot of the classics need to memorize, the second is to have enlightenment, some of the diseases that can not be cured for a long time need to find a different way, you have to have other people can not think of methods, in short, medicine such as soldiers, is not a simple thing!

I'll give you the same opinion. Chinese medicine is not difficult to learn.

In my own case.

I learned Chinese medicine when I was nearly thirty years old, and I have learned from my master and my uncle, and I am successful in learning medicine.

I personally unintentionally and Chinese medicine, fifteen years ago, I also work in the plastic factory, the first month of the north is very cold, in the workshop work wear too thick, not casual. At that time, I wore too little, on a night shift, feel the two knee soreness is not strong, the next shift I looked for an old Chinese medicine to see, this old gentleman, said two plasters on the good, then I reported to try the mentality of the pasted five days, really do not hurt, I feel very magical, at that time, I would like to be able to learn from the old man's skills, in order to learn from the old man (and also later the master) of the ancestor of the plasters I spent more than a year, to I spent more than a year in order to learn the old Mr. (and later the master) ancestral plasters, before I worshiped the master to learn the art, and then spent a year to get out of the master, the master took me as a son to point out the teaching, which is my introduction to the door of the master.

Returning to my hometown, I was able to pass on the knowledge of my uncle, first recognizing the medicines, picking medicines in the mountains, making medicines, the efficacy of the medicines, and then learning from my uncle about the illnesses and the clinical experience, my uncle passed on his nearly sixty years of experience to me, and my skills in looking, listening and checking, were faster than learning from books, and I was able to learn from my uncle.

In the words of the family uncle is very simple, learning Chinese medicine, learn the way of Chinese medicine, art. Learning yin and yang, Chinese medicine began to say, art, yin and yang, yin and yang subdivided, medicine yin and yang, disease yin and yang, heaven and earth yin and yang, yin and yang, divided into very fine, divided into a lot of things, in the end, summed up or yin and yang, there is a saying, do not pass ten thousand volumes of books, only one sentence of the real, typhoid fever, after the general outline of the disease, not afraid of the thousands of changes with the ten thousands of changes, is no more than yin and yang between the surface, Chinese medicine is divided into yin and yang, the surface of the inside and the inside, the real, the hot and cold, know the 12 The 12 meridians are the only things that are difficult to understand.

If there is no master teacher to guide you, you will learn too much and read too many books, but you will still be a fool.

I once met a postdoctoral doctor of traditional Chinese medicine, such as the realm will not cut the pulse, her pulse can not be divided into yin and yang, I do not know how her postdoctoral examination, she was pregnant, learned that I cut the pulse can know men and women, but also in order to test my true or false, she came to find me to say that the intention, I said the pulse is a daughter to her, she listened to the very surprised, have to let me teach her to take the pulse, and the pulse, and the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse, the pulse.

Friends, Chinese medicine is not difficult to learn, as the saying goes, the showman learns medicine, such as mud Tuo batch, as long as the love from the heart, will be able to learn well can also be learned.

Personally, I feel that the perspective of TCM being difficult to learn varies from person to person.

The study of Chinese medicine can be roughly divided into several aspects, one, Chinese medicine theory, that is, the basic theory of Chinese medicine, yin and yang, five elements. Second, Chinese medicine diagnosis, that is to say, looking, sniffing and cutting. Third, Chinese medicine dialectics, the so-called dialectical treatment part. Fourth, Chinese herbal medicine, that is, the understanding of Chinese medicine. Fifth, Chinese medicine prescription, that is, how to use Chinese medicine part. Sixth, the meridian theory, that is, the twelve meridians and related content. This part is related to but separate from TCM doctrine. Seven, acupuncture, that is, the meridian theory of acupuncture to cure the disease of the practical part. Eight, guided massage. Nine, some auxiliary Chinese medicine methods, such as moxibustion, cupping and so on. Ten, Chinese medicine health care, such as ointment, medicine and food.

The first six parts, listed above, are related to Chinese medicine, that is, how Chinese medicine is used. The sixth to ninth parts are mainly non-drug (internal medicine) treatments in TCM. The tenth is a separate section, together with the eighth and ninth, which are mainly used for preventive health care and wellness.

It is not easy for a Chinese medicine practitioner to be a great healer or a superior healer, as he or she has to understand all aspects of the subject. The theory of yin and yang and five elements is quite abstract, so much so that people who are against Chinese medicine say it is metaphysics, because it requires either a very good ability to think abstractly, as well as a very strong ability to think logically (the yin and yang and five elements of Chinese medicine are logical), or exceptional endowment to be able to internalize the evidence.

Chinese medicine is also a medical science that can be learned from practice, familiarize yourself with the theory of Chinese medicine treatment, such as typhoid theory, the theory of warm diseases, the theory of spleen and stomach, etc., and deepen the understanding of the use of practice, you can also do very good Chinese medicine.

No more, memorizing some soup head songs and using them well can solve the problem of treating many common diseases.

Of course, all of the above is subject to the knowledge and experience of using herbal medicine needs to be gradually mastered.

Ordinary people, it is not difficult to learn some introductory Chinese medicine, general introductory diagnosis, look at the face, commonly used medicinal and food Chinese medicine to master some, simple massage, moxibustion, common family illnesses, the initial stage can be dealt with.

Regardless of the method of learning Chinese medicine, practice is important and helps to deepen understanding.

There is also a category of people who learn Chinese medicine because of their illnesses, intend to treat their own illnesses, specialize in learning content related to their own illnesses (of course, they must be able to screen correctly), cure their own illnesses, become doctors over time, and have their own unique understanding of Chinese medicine issues.

Chinese medicine is difficult to learn, some people do not practice not to start; some people are not good memory, can not remember a variety of Chinese medicine content and prescription, it is difficult to grow on the basis of predecessors, all rely on their own practice accumulation; some people are not strong enough rationality, it is difficult to break through from the theoretical; some people do not have enough ability to analyze and discriminate, for some complex diseases, can not distinguish the main aspects of the dialectical inaccuracy of the drug inaccurate; some people are weak in perceptions, it is difficult to detect many details during the four diagnosis, which also leads to a series of processes later lost accuracy. It is difficult to perceive many details during the four diagnostic examinations, which also leads to the loss of accuracy in a series of processes in the back ......

Those who are unable to learn Chinese medicine and turn to curse Chinese medicine are most likely to be the last type of people, whose perceptions are too weak, so that he is unable to perceive what others are able to perceive, and then he makes unfounded judgments, and then feels that it is Chinese medicine that is the problem, rather than his own problem. The anti-Chinese medicine people on the Internet are basically the same type of people. They have a gift of awareness, but they don't realize that their awareness is weak, and they refuse to do anything for themselves.The problem of taking responsibility for the problem is the problem.

Of course, this can also be said to be an important factor in the difficulty of learning Chinese medicine: endowment. Not everyone's endowment is suitable for learning Chinese medicine. In fact, not only Chinese medicine, the industry is the same. Language, math, physics, chemistry, these ordinary subjects, there are many people can not learn.

The reason why it is difficult to learn is that modern people do not understand the essence of "national education". They have not read the basic theories of traditional culture, so they do not understand a lot of the vocabulary in Chinese medicine books and find it difficult to understand.

Before the Republic of China began to implement the "new style of education", China's education has been stuck in the private school, academy-style education model, students learn the "Four Books and Five Classics" and other Confucian content, from childhood to memorize the ancient writings that seem difficult to understand the modern world, students also need to master the celestial stems and earthly branches of the chronology of the year, master the five elements of the birth of grams, and other basic theories. After a few years of study, students will not find it as difficult to read and understand TCM books as modern people do.

Modern children are exposed to art, piano, English, etc. from childhood, and after school, they learn math, language (still vernacular, and the literary language only accounts for about 1/5 of the language teaching), physics, chemistry, English, politics, etc., which have almost no connection with the traditional Chinese culture, and the students can't even correspond to the basic Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, not to mention understanding the "Five Movements and Six Qi", "Four Diagnoses and Eight Syllabi". Students can't even correspond to the basic Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, let alone understand the "five movements and six qi" and "four diagnoses and eight principles". It is no wonder that reading Chinese medicine books is difficult to understand and learn.

Learning Chinese medicine is not a one or two day's work, there is a need to have a lot of Chinese science foundation to do support, only a solid grasp of the theory of Chinese science in order to learn Chinese medicine in a coherent, twice the result with half the effort.

The old topic of why Chinese medicine is difficult to learn the root cause of some self-realization.

Chinese medicine is learning (theory support) and technology (clinical practice to win or lose). Think it is difficult to learn, not really difficult to learn, but to learn the right way to find it?

Learning a Chinese medicine skills practice called Chinese medicine, grow to become everyone is also called Chinese medicine, this in the level and distance but can not be mixed with the false world of difference.

Just like the athletes on the track, the first and the last are called athletes, it's the difference in ability that creates the ranking... So, respect the differences and use the talents separately, there is really no need for everyone to be a scholar (judging the authenticity by the documents)!

As in all walks of life:Chang'e to the moon! Zhu Rong ascends to the fire! The god of rice, Mr. Yuan! Liver disease expert Wu Lao and other outstanding contributions (come up with real performance)...

Chinese medicine industry - start by choosing Chinese medicine and learning the basics for a shallow start (hobbies are important);

-To the clinical touch, exploration, and gradual skillful operation guided by TCM theories (it is more important to follow the clinical practice closely);

-And then to a small number of symptoms of holographic diagnosis and clinical independence to deal with comfortable (early in the industry to find fun and self-confidence);

--Then to be able to accurately identify and clearly classify the evidence, treatment can be tailored to the patient, flexible prescription and a series of clinical skills to achieve the degree of perfection (the ability to practice independently);

--Then to the clinical years, handled many diseases, many lesions, many difficult to solve, so that the skills gradually accumulated to a certain extent, and in the long-term process has its own rich, and more than the craftsmen in the same industry specializing in the independent purification and innovation (Medical Road to the supreme);

--Eventually become a self-contained industry leader (family vs. master).

The process is like the annual cycle of a large tree, which never becomes a prime mover overnight.

Having said that, it may seem like the industry is hopeless, but there is one reliable path to success: teacher training!

Who the teacher is is important (true skill)! It is even more important what art (true skill) the teacher has taken on!

All of these teacher-student encounters have nothing to do with the reality of high teacher-student status or money;

There is no absolute relationship with the level of education of both parties;

But it has absolutely everything to do with the virtue, enlightenment, rationality and patience of teachers and students, and the long-term interests of the country and individuals!

In short, learning Chinese medicine is difficult or not, it depends on the reality and karma between the synthesis of karma when each at their own discretion.

After the Ming and Qing dynasties, Chinese medicine was detached from nature, and it was indeed difficult to learn without melting into nature. Because all the theories of Chinese medicine are related to nature.

Qualitative analysis is the main focus and it is difficult to practice medicine without more practical experience.

Compared with Western medicine, its advantage is holistic and dialectical thinking, and it will not treat the head when it hurts and treat the foot when it hurts. Its shortcomings are quantitative analysis and a slightly poorer degree of precision, and so on.

It is better to combine Chinese and Western medicine to realize complementary advantages and avoidance of disadvantages, which is more beneficial to patients.

In addition to the fact that the skills of TCM practitioners who are now from science classes are not working, I would like to add one more point:☞ How should a TCM practitioner get started and how should he or she grow up slowly.

There is a Chen Yan in the Song Dynasty, wrote a book "three causes of extreme a disease evidence of square theory", there is a talk about "too much medical practice", that is, the ancient doctor of medicine should read some books. He used the Confucian students to compare, the Confucian students to learn "Jing Shi Zi Jie", the doctor's Jing, is the "Nei Jing" which is the foundation of all theories of traditional Chinese medicine; history is the interpretation of the various schools of traditional Chinese medicine, such as the "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing", "Ben Cao Xin Jie"; Zi Zi is the "Difficulties in the Classic" "Typhoid fever" "in the collection of the Classic", a hundred is the "Ghosts of the formula" "Copper" "Young young! New Book", "Obstetrics Baoqing".

The Zu Zi are equivalent to people who are very accomplished in medicine and at the same time they are general practitioners, while the Hundred Schools of Thought are more focused on a particular subject. In fact, according to Chen Yan, Fu Qingzhu in the Qing Dynasty, Wang Qingren can also be counted as a hundred schools of thought, one is a gynecologist, and the other proposed the theory of bruising.

Here's an audio that talks about tai medicine and whatnot that's a little more comprehensive.

Aside from those readings, the heaviest dose of dry TCM is here!

Chinese medicine theory of disease is divided into 3: internal injuries, external sensations, not internal and external causes of disease.

Corresponding to the system of external senses: the doctrine of luck, the doctrine of typhoid, the doctrine of warm diseases

Internal injury system corresponds to: the four signs of the earth pivot doctrine, the doctrine of the spleen and stomach

The non-internal and external causes encompass all types of miscellaneous diseases other than those mentioned above.

Here are the details.