If you haven't learned any knowledge of TCM before, don't know TCM thoughts, and can't tell what cold and heat are, you can choose the book "Tibetan Medical Words", which is Xu Wenbing's book. Through the explanation of some Chinese characters describing diseases, we can realize the real thought of traditional Chinese medicine. Xu teacher is a famous educator of traditional Chinese medicine in China. He is very knowledgeable and funny. His Chinese medicine class has influenced many people, including myself. It is also because I heard him talk about Huangdi Neijing more than ten years ago, which opened the door to Chinese medicine. Of course, there are many books, such as Taste of Diet, Dreams and Health, Friends, which are very suitable for beginners and all ages, and will make you feel the charm of Chinese medicine, thus arousing your interest in further study.
If you are young and want to read more humorous Chinese medicine books, but also want to know some simple methods of syndrome differentiation and some commonly used prescriptions, then you can look at the comic series of lazy rabbit Chinese medicine. These books explain the knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine through funny cartoons and interesting cases, and the explanations of diseases will be more detailed and targeted, and they are also very easy to learn for daily application.
Finally, if you are interested in the health training of meridians and acupoints and want to get a more systematic application method, then I suggest you take a look at Teacher Lu Xinyu's "Eliminating All Diseases with Bare Hands". This book doesn't need you to learn a boring map of meridians and acupoints, but simply tells you how to solve problems as quickly as possible. There are pictures in the book, methods of acupoint selection and different methods of walking on stilts, which are easy to learn.
Of course, there are also many very good books on Chinese medicine. I have seen some myself, so I recommend them to you.
Of course, after reading these books, you still can't cure the disease and prescribe medicine. However, the emergence of every disease is not accidental. We must have done something wrong in life, and the corresponding symptoms will appear on us. Through the study of traditional Chinese medicine, we can know and find our own misunderstandings in food, clothing, housing and transportation, and adjust our life to the rhythm of natural laws in time, which is the greatest gain.
There is a saying in The Analects that parents are unkind because they don't know medical treatment. It is unfilial to be a child who doesn't know medical treatment. Learning some medical skills is not to be a doctor, but what we can do to help our relatives when they are sick.