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Generally speaking, there are three conditions for learning Chinese medicine:

One, follow the classics.

Anyone who became a great healer in ancient times did not fail to learn the classics. For example, some students may be familiar with the four great masters of Jin Yuan. These are the figures who started the school, but how did they first learn? Classics! Then in the Qing Dynasty, there was a new way to learn Chinese medicine, starting with the "Medicine Fugue", "Tangtou Ge", "Three Character Classic of Medicine". That is, the bottom-up learning method, the above mentioned from the classics to start, is the top-down learning. Once you have a little bit of foundation, then learn the classics. This has an advantage, it is simple and easy to start. One disadvantage is that the height is not high enough, and one's achievement may not be high in the future. Top-down learning also has the disadvantage of being difficult and not easy to learn. But there is also an advantage, being high up. When you one day master the divine essence of the classics, you will realize that you stand at a high level with the ancients to see things. The Chinese medicine books of later times are too simple.

Again, the second condition: the teacher's succession.

The teacher is the one who preaches and teaches. If a student, without a teacher, is completely self-taught and reads the classics, can he or she come out. The answer is, of course you can. But there will be twists and turns among you, you will be confused, and you will suffer. For example, if someone follows a teacher and has a question, the teacher will understand it as soon as he or she teaches, but you may have to fumble for a long time. That is to say, learning is more lonely, hahaha. People used to say, since childhood in the door, out of the strong three. That's the truth. Under the same conditions of effort, having a teacher is different from not having a teacher. For example, acupuncture. The first choice is to choose the acupuncture point. If the teacher is by your side and teaches you, this place is an acupuncture point. You know it at once. Then, place the needle. When the teacher is around, you have the confidence, and you stick it at once. But you're self-taught, and it's worse. First you have to find one who is willing to give you the needle. And you have to be bold, dare to go under, and be mentally prepared to deal with acupuncture accidents.

That's the pain of not having a teacher.

But are there benefits? Of course there is. That is, there is no gateway, more open, and one day enlightened, you can also open a school. In the past, there was an old gentleman at Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, also a prescriptionist. Called Li Keshao. He was originally an elementary school teacher, and later taught himself Chinese medicine without a teacher. He has a book, called "typhoid fever to solve the confusion of the theory", in the future, we learn typhoid, must look at. His contemporary, Mr. Liu Du Zhou, was a typhoidologist with a legacy. Since then, he has learned from the book called "The Medical Zong". When you compare the two, you can see the difference between the two. It's not that who is higher or lower. It's that feeling of one being a Qi Zong and the other being a Sword Zong. The key is, can you stand the loneliness and get through it. I have a friend, a sixth-generation Chinese medicine practitioner. At the age of seven, he can memorize the entire Pulse Meridian. When you go out to see a doctor, the culture of family learning is prevalent, what kind of disease, what kind of medicine to use, and the effect is exact. These are the benefits of inheritance. So there are advantages and disadvantages to everything. For example, the ancient dispute between cold and warm. What exactly is warm disease? The books through the ages have said a lot of things, and the more they say, the more confusing it becomes. If a teacher has a legacy, he or she can say it all in one sentence. Sometimes, the true transmission is just one sentence. But if you realize it, then it is a lot of pain. Another example is that the Vulcan school is now popular. Compare it to eating epiphyllum. Whoever dares to prescribe epiphyllum is a famous doctor. Is that so? If you have an inheritance, you won't use it like that. Why study the classics? To study the classics is to have height. It lets you know, at a glance, what is right and what is wrong. That way there are fewer detours. That's what the classics are for. If you don't have a teacher, you can learn from the classics, and you can learn from the past sages.

There is a third condition: love.

Interest is the best teacher. Are you interested, this is actually the most important point. There is no interest, there is a classic, the teacher forced you not. You have to really want to learn, really think this is a good thing. Then you will be willing to work hard. Willing to read books, willing to ask people, willing to find information. Sometimes, a teacher's words, a peer's words, let you benefit for life. Many people like Chinese medicine. It's because they originally had a love for traditional culture. At the end of the day, Chinese medicine is fun. With this mentality, they come to learn. This is how to get started.

The above are three conditions.

And then there's the question of whether or not you can get to the next level of learning Chinese medicine, and what level you can get to. This depends on each person's enlightenment. Chinese medicine is not like Western medicine, which is industrialized. Chinese medicine is a handmade work of art, good doctors are masters of arts and crafts. Western doctors are assembly line workers in craft factories. The two are not the same. So some people say, "Look, Western medicine is good now, there are more people doing it, there are more hospitals, there are more patients, and Chinese medicine is not working. Is it not? In fact, Chinese medicine may not be able to surpass the "prosperity" of Western medicine for a long time.

The Chinese medicine is a very vague medicine. What is fuzzy? Art is fuzzy. Two people play the piano, the same tune, one plays well, one does not. How to judge? Feelings. What's a feeling? It's something unquantifiable. Whether or not to go up to a higher level in Chinese medicine is, in the final analysis, on top of this unquantifiable. What is quantifiable is equal and inferior, the level of work. Unquantifiable, you will feel incredible, but objective. This is the "sacred" level in Chinese medicine. You hear a person's cough. A prescription comes out, a cure. Don't think it's mystical. I've done it. There's a reason for it. And it's all in the inner scriptures. I can tell it too. Some people study very hard, but they don't always get to the realm. Some people study hard, but don't always get to the realm, but some people study hard, but get to the realm. That is enlightenment.