With the passage of time, Chinese medicine is increasingly loved by some busy white-collar workers and elderly people living a comfortable retirement life. There are also many people who like to read some books about Chinese medicine, and there are also some related Chinese medicine health programs. How much benefit will these books and programs bring to those who have time and energy to study Chinese medicine? Because I seldom pay attention to these programs and read these books, I don't have much say. However, I still have some personal opinions and suggestions for students who are about to enter the door of the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine and those who try to understand Chinese medicine systematically. Some people say that reading Chinese medicine is reading classics, which is a wise saying. But a beginner can't read classics, just like a baby who can't walk. You can't train Liu Xiang to run. A person who can master one of the classics of traditional Chinese medicine must be a doctor with superb medical skills. Therefore, it is possible for beginners to read classics and read a book twenty or thirty times without knowing what to say. So how should beginners learn Chinese medicine? First of all, any technology must have a theoretical basis. For a person who studies Chinese medicine, the basic theory of Chinese medicine is essential. It is difficult for people who don't understand yin and yang, five elements, six evils and seven emotions, the physiological characteristics of internal organs and the direction of meridians to understand and know Chinese medicine. The textbook "Basic Theory of Traditional Chinese Medicine" is of course the authoritative book for learning the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine, but it has to be said that the books generally used as teaching materials are relatively low in readability. What I recommend to my classmates is Mr. Qin Bowei's Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine, which is very readable. Moreover, Mr. Qin Bowei, nicknamed "Qin Neijing", knows the classic works of Chinese medicine by heart. This book is a rare book that leads everyone into the door of traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, Mr. Fang Yaozhong's popular speech on the basic theory of TCM is also very readable. After understanding the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, we should study diagnostics of traditional Chinese medicine. Diagnostics of traditional Chinese medicine is the most complicated and difficult subject to learn. Because the most important thing in Chinese medicine is syndrome differentiation and treatment. The most systematic teaching material for learning this subject is diagnostics of traditional Chinese medicine. The best textbook is Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, published by Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House and edited by Mr. Deng Tietao, but it is also unreadable. Jiao Shude's Talking about Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment from Cases and Fang Yaozhong's Seven Lectures on Syndrome Differentiation and Treatment can make up for the readability problem, but both books require readers to have certain knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine research is a key point of Chinese medicine research. Materia Medica is a good book as well as a thin one. Readability is much higher than that of traditional Chinese medicine textbooks. In addition, "Song of Medicinal Nature" has 400 flavors, and "Fu of Medicinal Nature" is a traditional Chinese medicine work in the form of songs. If you are a student of Chinese medicine, these two books are back to back, which is of great benefit to the application of Chinese medicine. As for the world-famous Compendium of Materia Medica, it is very readable, but people who have read the whole Compendium of Materia Medica are basically discouraged. The first edition of Compendium of Materia Medica, recently published by People's Name Health Publishing House, is extremely self-defensive and weighs more than ten kilograms. It can't be read in two or three years, let alone recited. I think Compendium of Materia Medica can be used as a reference book such as a dictionary, but it is not suitable for reading as a learning bibliography. Prescription science is actually a stage of getting better and better. If you learn Chinese medicine by heart, you will have a certain understanding of its prescriptions. Beginners throughout the ages praised the Collection of Tangtou Songs, which was written by the same person-Wang An in Qing Dynasty. Wang Ang himself is not a doctor, but a rich man. He organized a large number of local famous doctors to write medical books for him and finally published them in the name of Wang Ang. Nevertheless, many books compiled by him are excellent books introducing Chinese medicine. The writing of Tang Tou Ge Ji is convenient for readers to recite poems. Most of the folk songs attached to "Contemporary Prescription" come from "Tangtou Songs Collection" and are also rewritten according to "Tangtou Songs Collection". In the late Qing Dynasty, most famous doctors recited Wang Ang's "Tang Tou Ge Ji" when they debuted. After reading the above books, you can basically say that you have entered the door of Chinese medicine. For those who don't study Chinese medicine, after knowing this, you can at least distinguish the pros and cons of doctors from the rationality of prescriptions when you see a doctor in Chinese medicine. What about people who study Chinese medicine? These are far from enough, we haven't fully started yet. After reading these books, students in TCM colleges can seriously study the inside and outside of TCM, wives and children. When studying these subjects, there is a book worth reading, and that is the golden mirror of medical records. Jin Jian of Medical Zong was a textbook compiled by Janice, then the ambassador of the imperial palace (equivalent to the president) during the Qianlong period, for people studying medicine in the Qing Dynasty to learn. This book basically represents the highest achievement of medicine at that time. In the yat sen villa system, except Treatise on Febrile Diseases, it basically covers all disciplines of Chinese medicine except You Zhu (medical psychology), which can be said to be a medical masterpiece. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, many doctors studied Chinese medicine based on the Golden Mirror of the medical clan and became famous doctors. In addition, the book "Learning from the West with Medical Enthusiasm" written by Zhang Xichun in Hebei Province in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China is known as "the first treatable book of Chinese medicine", which is the most imitated book and worth reading. After reading these books, a Chinese medicine apprentice can barely get started. Even if the medicine can't cure the disease, there should be no problem of killing people. What if I want to get rid of the disease? Systematically study the ancestral classic Huangdi Neijing, and also systematically study the classic works of TCM, such as Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Treatise on Febrile Diseases (these books are systematically analyzed in the Golden Mirror of Medical Zong and Record of Medical Enthusiasm). In addition, he also dabbled in the works of doctors in past dynasties, especially Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu, Liu and Liu. If you study like this, you will become a famous doctor. After reading these books, there are still some books to read, which are medical records. Chinese medicine is different from western medicine, and medical records are an important part of Chinese medicine works, among which clinical guide medical records can be said to be a wonderful work in medical records. Mr. Deng Tietao, a leading figure in the field of Chinese medicine, once said that this medical record has educated dozens of generations of Chinese medicine practitioners. This shows the value of clinical guidance of medical records. Learning basics → learning clinic → learning classics → learning different schools → doing clinic → learning medical records, which is the way that Chinese medicine should take. As a person who is interested in Chinese medicine, he also needs to learn the basics, not follow the crowd. It is necessary to know that some Chinese medicine health care books are right, and some are just cheating on the manuscript fee. Only by understanding the basic knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine can we discard the false and retain the true.