Learning Chinese medicine depends on those ancient Chinese medicine books.

Four classic novels: Huangdi Neijing, Difficult Classic, Shennong Herbal Classic and Treatise on Febrile Diseases.

In addition, each of the following books can be regarded as a classic of Chinese medicine: Treatise on Febrile Diseases, Complete Book of Classic Yue, Classic, Spleen and Stomach Theory, Essential Prescriptions for a Thousand Women, Staging Theory of Etiology, Golden Mirror of Medical Cases, Pulse Diagnosis on the Lake, Correction of Medical Forest, Han-Tibetan Classics and Fu Qingzhu Andrology.