Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Chapter 1 Preface
Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to principles, methods and prescriptions in treating diseases, and medicine is an important link to achieve the purpose of treatment.Therefore, for every clinician, the richness of pharmacology knowledge directly affects the performance of clinical level and the level of clinical efficacy.However, the accumulation of pharmacological knowledge does not happen overnight, and it needs to continuously learn from the experience of ancient and modern famous doctors. Moreover, due to the increasing amount of information, it is impossible to cover it all by memorization, and reference books must be used.It's just that there are many reference books at present, some are for researchers to consult, and some are for beginners' reference, with different levels and emphases, so the content arrangement, data selection, and volume size all have their own characteristics.For clinical practitioners of traditional Chinese medicine, what is most needed should be a medium-sized reference book with a moderate variety (500 to 1500 types), items close to clinical application, and the essence of ancient and modern materials.In view of this, we have compiled this dictionary in 1989 years since 6.

It has been more than 1994 years since the book was published in 10.In the meantime, the clinical and research of Chinese medicine has made great progress, and the new clinical application of many Chinese herbal medicines has attracted the attention of the world.In order to focus on displaying these achievements and better serve the clinic, we revised and supplemented the contents of the original book after careful analysis and careful selection; Some drugs that are less clinically used or whose curative effects are not definite are removed, so as to be less and more refined.

Although we do our best, due to the limited level, there are still many shortcomings and mistakes in the book. We sincerely hope that readers will not hesitate to criticize and correct.

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