First listen and ask about the most basic wheat cutting. How do you feel the pulse? This thing cannot be understood in a few words, nor can it be learned clearly in a day or two. He needs a teacher to teach you for a long time, and then you can experience it yourself in the actual process of seeing a doctor, so that you can gradually master that subtle change. But now university education is a large-scale education, with dozens of students in one class and hundreds of students in one grade. How can a teacher have the leisure to teach you to everyone, even if everyone can teach you?
The second is prescription. The magic of traditional Chinese medicine lies in that all kinds of medicinal materials can produce magical effects together, but prescription is the core thing, and medicinal materials can not be made casually. Although different medicinal materials have different curative effects, you can usually put them together to enhance the efficacy, but the most magical thing in Chinese medicine is those drugs with conflicting tastes. When these drugs are matched together to achieve a balanced state, it will have a very magical effect. Without these prescriptions now, Chinese medicine has lost too much in the process of inheritance.
If it's just ordinary Chinese medicine, it's good to have a look. This is a common disease, and you can't learn it in a year or two. Even if you study Chinese medicine, you can be a graduate student. I dare not talk about seeing a doctor when I get my doctorate. It must be more accurate than those western doctors who use instruments. Because people use modern equipment and you rely entirely on your own feelings and knowledge structure, Chinese medicine is getting worse and worse now.