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Approaching the Mysterious Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Overview

Traditional Chinese medicine is a treasure of China's traditional culture and a bright pearl in the treasure house of Chinese medicine. It is deeply rooted in the soil of the Chinese nation and many beautiful legends have formed in the long river of history. Such as Tianma's "Immortal Seeding, Mortal Digging", Renshen's "Thousand-year-old Growth must be Guarded by Poisonous Snakes", White Lady's "A Pot of Xionghuang Shows Its Real Form", Heshouwu Black Hair and Improve Fertility "and so on. These true and illusory legends condensed the wisdom of the working people of our country, and also added the mysterious color to Chinese medicine.

In recent years, with the excavation of the theory of prevention and treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and the popularity of traditional Chinese medicine preserving health, traditional Chinese medicine has been increasingly sought after, especially the "star medicines" that are popular with the average people: Chongcao, Heshouwu, Lurong, Haima . However, due to the influence of the medication mode and the erroneous guidance of health publicity, reports of frequent adverse reactions in the use of Chinese medicine have frequently appeared in reports thus severely restricted the display of the charm of Chinese medicine.

Approaching the mysterious traditional Chinese medicine takes single medicinal material as the main line, takes traditional Chinese medicine stories, legends, and typical cases of misuse as the starting point. With rich pictures, micro-videos, and animation designs, it tells the culture, origin, locality of growth, harvesting, appearance and morphology, cultivation, processing and clinical application knowledge of 32 magical traditional Chinese medicines, revealing the true meaning of Chinese medicine hidden behind the beautiful legends and anecdotes of interesting medicines, which helps learners to have a deep understanding of Chinese medicine culture, identification, processing and knowledge of clinical application and other aspects, master the skills of distinguishing, recognizing and using medicine, so that learners can learn and inherit the culture of traditional Chinese medicine, experience the charm of it,  by listening to the stories, and then establish the ambition to protect the excellent traditional Chinese culture.


Syllabus

  • Introduction
    • Chapter 1 The Four Dimensions of Chinese Medicine
      • 1.1 The Magic Herb Renshen-Murder not Condemned
      • 1.2 The Brilliant General Dahuang-Rescuer not Credited
      • 1.3 Dihuang-A Good herb Tonifying Blood
      • 1.4 Fuzi-A Good and Evil herb
    • Chapter 2 The Dispute between Good and Evil
      • 2.1 A Large Family of Wutou
      • 2.2 Two Similar Medicines that Hit Home (Caowu, Chuanwu)
      • 2.3 Shouwu-A good or Evil Medicine
      • 2.4 Mahuang-A medicine Good at Inducing Sweat
    • Chapter 3 Parasitic Eaters
      • 3.1 Tianma- A herb who can run without feet
      • 3.2 Two Valuable Musketeers Living in Desert (Roucongrong, -Suoyang)
      • 3.3 Wisdom Parasitic Eaters (Tusizi, Hujisheng)
    • Chapter 4 The Dispute of Varieties
      • 4.1 Two Musketeers for Dryness and Removing Phlegm (Banxia, Tiannanxing)
      • 4.2 Skillful Identification of the Four kinds of Ginger (Jianghuang, Pianjianghuang, Yujin, Ezhu)
      • 4.3 Mutong-A Good or Evil herb
      • 4.4 The Brother Medicines with the Same Function (Chishao, Baishao)
    • Chapter 5 The Wonderful Fungus Medicine
      • 5.1 The Whirl Chongcao
      • 5.2 The Magic Fuling
    • Chapter 6 Colorful Animal Medicine
      • 6.1 The Dad Who can Give Birth to Child (Haima, Hailong)
      • 6.2 Chantui-Rebirth after Nirnava
      • 6.3 Tubiechong- Breaking and Dispelling the Static Blood
      • 6.4 Lurong-Generating the Essence and Tonifying Marrow
    • Chapter 7 Ore Medicine-On the Road of Seeking for Elixir
      • 7.1 Xionghuang Discussed in the Dragon Boat Festival
      • 7.2 Zhusha-the Finest Medicine for Dispelling Pathogens
    • Chapter 8 The Mysterious Chinese Medicine of Wood
      • Chenxiang-the Priceless Medicine
    • Final exam

      Taught by

      Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

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