How many versions of Chinese medicine textbooks are there? What are the characteristics of each version? Which version is the best?

The fifth edition of Chinese medicine textbooks is the best, with ten copies in one edition. The characteristic is that people in the industry agree. The fifth edition textbook of Shanghai Science and Technology Publishing House is also the designated book for postgraduate entrance examination in many Chinese medicine colleges.

The theory of traditional Chinese medicine is constantly innovating, and some of it has been updated through research and clinical practice. If it is inspection and clinical application, it is impossible not to update, and it is easy to make mistakes. At least when answering questions in the exam, it must be wrong not to conform to the new version. Some people say the fifth edition is good.

You can know by comparison, which is satisfactory, but there are also typos and omissions. It is best to cross-reference multiple versions. Different versions will be involved, and the differences between different versions are the main points of regular exams, which means that the fifth edition of textbooks does not have it, while the seventh edition of textbooks may have it. Similarly, there is no textbook in the seventh edition.

And some textbooks in the fifth edition may also be tested. In the past, most of them paid attention to the fifth edition, but now they are gradually inclined to the seventh edition. Zhongji had better look at the fifth edition of the textbook, which seems to be from Shanghai Institute of Technology, but it is rarely found now. I have used less than ten books in our school library. Then you can apply what you have learned, not much difference.

At present, the fifth edition of Chinese medicine textbook is hard to buy, and it is the most classic Chinese medicine textbook since the founding of the People's Republic of China. I still think it is better to look at the substance. The fifth edition was published in 1983, nearly 40 years ago. In the past 40 years, great changes have taken place in medical conditions and the level of diagnosis and treatment. Learning the knowledge 40 years ago is difficult to meet the current clinical needs.

It is generally believed that the knowledge update of TCM is very slow, and it hasn't changed much in one or two thousand years. Therefore, some people think that learning Chinese medicine books is almost the same, and the older the better. Is that really the case? Qiu Yu believes that if he has a certain foundation of Chinese medicine and a certain knowledge of standardization.