What should I do if I want my child to learn Chinese medicine?

For TCM, sometimes indirect experience is more important than direct experience. For example, when I was young, because of my short clinical experience and little knowledge, there were bound to be many diseases I had never seen before, and I had to explore them myself, which would delay my illness and take many detours. If you read a lot of books and find that ancient and modern famous doctors have similar treatment experience, you can use it to make up for your direct experience. Even if you are old and have rich clinical experience, you can't have seen everything. The experience of others is always worth cherishing. This requires reading, reading and absorbing the experience of others. In my opinion, a person who has been immersed in clinical practice all his life and only pays attention to his own experience or family experience, but refuses to spend time reading more books and absorbing other people's experience, can only be a mediocre doctor and will never become an accomplished clinician.

Of course, there is a knack for reading. We should read in a planned, selective and phased way.

First, read some books. Huangdi Neijing, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Treatise on Febrile Diseases have become the new four classics. These books are the foundation for a TCM clinician to settle down. Memorize at the reading stage, at least Treatise on Febrile Diseases and Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and be familiar with others. Can be used for a lifetime. Why do you have to read and recite? Because these books solve the problems of clinical methodology of traditional Chinese medicine, embody the living thought of syndrome differentiation and treatment, and express a system, not a method. What's more, Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Synopsis of the Golden Chamber and Treatise on Febrile Diseases provide more than 400 series of prescriptions that have been clinically tested, closely linked and have outstanding curative effects. Only by mastering the chest, practicing in clinic all my life, understanding and confirming can I sublimate my clinical level.

I learned Chinese medicine from reading Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and I feel that the biggest gain is thinking skills and clinical methodology, which are the soul of Chinese medicine clinic. You must remember these articles before you can use them in clinic. Only in this way can we grasp the clinical essence of traditional Chinese medicine. Let me give you a recent example: I treated a middle-aged diabetic and used various western medicines, but my blood sugar could not come down. The main symptoms of the patient are gastrointestinal discomfort, fullness and purring in the upper abdomen, dry and thin stool and thin yellow tongue coating. I have used Banxia Xiexin Decoction, Tiaozhong Yiqi Decoction, Wu Mei Pill and so on. It's been several months, but my blood sugar is still very high, but because of the hypoglycemic effect of Coptis chinensis, I have been afraid to go to Qinlian rashly. I was almost at my wit's end, but when I accidentally felt my pulse, I found that although it was summer, the patient's whole elbow was cold. Isn't this the "four opposites" in Treatise on Febrile Diseases? The purring in the abdomen, that is, the hyperactivity of bowel sounds, is not the syndrome of "water drinking" in synopsis of the golden chamber: "water passes through the intestine and the rain sounds"? Thin yellow tongue coating is just an illusion of heat. I switched to a large dose of Sini Decoction combined with Ji Jiao Li Huang Pill, and it worked, and my blood sugar began to drop. I broke out in a cold sweat and felt ashamed. I'm sorry for the patient, or I'm not familiar with the provisions of Treatise on Febrile Diseases, and I'm not at home with the skills of syndrome differentiation and treatment, so I'm disturbed.