I think:Beginners go to the mountains with their masters to taste the herbs and take notes, and after a period of time, they can go deeper into the study of Chinese Medicine Pharmacology. It is enough to memorize the commonly used ones among ten thousand kinds of herbs.

Hi, about this question, actually I have traveled a lot of detours, so I feel deeply about it. Today I will briefly talk about some of my passages and experiences in learning Chinese medicine, hope it can help you.

When I first started learning Chinese medicine, I actually memorized it by rote. I searched the internet for a lot of Chinese medicine songs and phrases, such as the more famous ones likePharmacognosy: "All medicines know their nature, but these are the coldest ......." Still remember some of this now, haha. I was in school at the time, and then realized that this is not very useful for exams. So according to the "Chinese medicine" chapter, on the Internet to find a variety of jingles, bit by bit to memorize. To be honest, this approach to cope with test education is indeed enough, although memorized and forgotten, forgotten and memorized, but still successfully passed a lot of exams. So Ifor a timeConsidered it the most effective way to learn and stuck with it for 5 years in college.

However, after graduation and clinical work, I found that it is not the case at all. On the one hand, it is easy to forget, always can't remember; on the other hand, when we say Chinese medicine we remember all kinds of effects, but when we say efficacy, it is difficult to pick the right formula from all the Chinese medicines.

So I got to thinking.How did the ancients memorize herbs?They didn't have a Herbalism textbook or chapters, so what did they rely on to memorize? I gradually put aside the textbook and began to look for other ways. Once when I was reading the Atlas of Chinese Herbal Medicine, I suddenly had a bit of inspiration: I saw that ephedra was a stalk of grass, rounded and hollowed out, and I thought, "This is like a water pipe, it must be able to benefit water. This sudden idea made me question:How did the ancients determine the effects of various herbs?

So I started looking up all kinds of information. Finally, in the Qing Dynasty medical doctorXu Daqun (1935-), Chinese-American physicist, astronomer and mathematicianThe answer was found in the words of“Where the use of medicine, or to take its gas, or to take its flavor, or to take its color, or to take its shape, or to use its quality, or to use its temperament, or to take its birth time, or to take its birth place, each to its bias and that is the funding of the treatment of the disease, so that can complement the bias of the rescue and harm, and reconcile the internal organs, and to seek their reason, can be obtained from the"。What does this sentence mean? It means that the ancients understood the efficacy of a Chinese medicine either by its smell, or by its color, or by its shape, texture, and so on. So I thought, can I memorize Chinese medicine through this?

Then I began to summarize, and found that, once started, really solid memory. For example, mulberry, at first green, then black, and a lot of water, green to the liver, black to the kidneys, water is yin, so it can tonify the yin of the liver and kidneys, but also can cure the thirst of the Jin injury. What else can you do with a lot of water? I thought, can also laxative. So the mulberry function is to tonify the yin of the liver and kidney, treatment of thirst, laxative, used for liver and kidney yin deficiency, constipation, thirst and so on.This is the use of its shape! Isn't it very simple? There are also umeboshi, umeboshi's most important feature is acid, so it can collect and astringent, can stop sweating, shrinking essence and stopping the loss of blood, but also astringent lung qi to stop coughing.It's all about using the flavor.。

In this way, slowly I would find that I not only remembered the efficacy of the herbs, but also the shapes, colors, smells, and meridians of the herbs, like a three-dimensional image, memorized in my mind and remembered deeply.

If you are interested, you can try it. I would also like to urge everyone to return toTraditional ways of thinkingTo learn Chinese medicine, books nowadays have given up a lot of the essence of the thinking of Chinese medicine, and if they are memorized by rote, they will only take people farther and farther away from Chinese medicine.

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Elephant thinking in Chinese medicine has a pivotal role in Chinese medicine, in the learning of Chinese medicine, the same firmly grasp this point, you can have twice the result with half the effort.Take Garcinia Cambogia for example:

Vine climbing and relaxation, vines, and human tendons are very similar, so more treatment of tendon disease. Rattan twisting and spreading, like a network, crisscross, everywhere, its shape like the veins. Clinical for long illness, evil into the complex, to vine drugs through the knot, such as Lei Gongteng, Loxi Vine, Lonicera, Qingfengteng, Chicken Blood Vine and so on belong to this kind. Among them.

"Spinach root fine as a tendon can be eaten, so this scripture says that it is taken for a long time without hunger and light body. Renew the tendons and bones, and close the tendon sores."

"To medicines," said under the text of the vine, "the function of the stone, specializing in relaxing the tendons and activating the collaterals. Where the patient's tendon contracture, not easy to stretch and flexion, served without fail, can not be ignored."

The true biography of medicine "Lonicera japonica:" the vine of the silver flower, is to declare through the meridians of the drug also. Through the meridians and adjust the blood, what disease is not appropriate, not necessarily carbuncle poison and then use it." Stretching grass, also known as stone pine, perennial herbs, stolons trailing, slender and curved, up to 2m long.

Gleanings from the Materia Medica" explains "Stone Pine, the main long suffering from wind paralysis, foot and knee pain and cold, the skin is not benevolent, weak energy", its function and "Yunnan Materia Medica" said "the nature of the walk and do not keep" related.

Therefore, when learning Chinese medicine, do not just memorize, although the flavor and efficacy is ten or twenty words, but if you do not seek to understand the memorization, but also really not good to memorize, will soon forget.

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Repeatedly categorize bulk herbs by nature, taste, efficacy, and attribution ......

Categorized notes!

Based on medicinal properties.

There are many ways to memorize, such as all the flowers are ascending and then descending alone, the root of the fruit is mostly in the lower jiao, the leaves and flowers into the upper jiao, stalks into the middle jiao, and the surname of the yellow most of the clearing of heat to start the white most of the clearing or into the lungs, etc. more than the general

Knot.

The best way to remember Chinese medicine is to pick it.

My teacher originally taught me to just familiarize myself with medicinal properties.

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