Subject concept of traditional Chinese medicine

Concept: Compared with western medicine (mainly chemical medicine), traditional Chinese medicine is mostly produced in China, which fully embodies some characteristics of China's history, culture and natural resources.

Traditional Chinese Medicine: the subject that studies the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the source, collection, processing, performance, efficacy, indications and usage of specific drugs.

Materia Medica: the old name of traditional Chinese medicine, which was first seen in Hanshu, was named because most of the research objects were herbs.

Branches: With its own development and the penetration of other disciplines (botany, zoology, mineralogy, chemistry, pharmacology, pharmacy, etc. ), the research field of traditional Chinese medicine has been expanded and its branches have become more mature.

Clinical Chinese medicine: Chinese medicine is actually clinical Chinese medicine. This paper mainly introduces the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine and the performance, efficacy and clinical application of commonly used traditional Chinese medicine. The origin, identification, collection, processing, preparation, chemistry and pharmacology of traditional Chinese medicine are not involved or only understood.