To put it simply, Chinese medicine studies the basic theory of Chinese medicine, and the knowledge of its property, taste, meridian tropism and clinical application.

Prescription studies the composition principle, compatibility law and clinical application of prescriptions.

The most important difference between the two is that Chinese medicine studies the curative effect of a single medicine, while prescriptions study the curative effect of multiple medicines, rather than simply adding up the medicines, which also contains many basic theories of Chinese medicine.

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