Can I learn Chinese medicine with zero foundation?

1. Enlightenment: Interest is the best teacher. First of all, you should be interested in reading some interesting stories about Chinese medicine. One to increase interest, and the second to contact some of the basic knowledge of Chinese medicine. Recommended by Luo Darren's "ancient Chinese medicine" and other works, Ren Zhitang's "the growth of a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner" and other works, after these generally can set up some basic concepts of traditional thinking, mastering some of the small prescriptions, enlightenment can also be initially some of the pulse diagnosis, you can help your family to solve some small problems.

2. Getting Started: With interest, we need to start laying the foundation. To modern writings in the vernacular mainly, with the previous interest and some foundation, should be able to adhere to. Recommended "basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine", "traditional Chinese medicine", "thinking about traditional Chinese medicine", Hao Wanshan's "typhoid fever lecture notes", Hu Xishu's "typhoid fever", "the Golden Chamber" lectures and so on. This stage is mainly to lay the foundation for a more systematic study of the basic doctrines of traditional Chinese medicine, the properties of commonly used Chinese medicines and so on.

3. Improvement: This stage is to begin to gradually deepen understanding. From this stage will begin to sublimation, this stage is still the main ancient text. Need to see is: "circular motion of ancient Chinese medicine". After the study and then learn Huang Yuanwu's work "four saints heart source" "four saints hanging" "Suwen hanging solution" "Lingshu hanging solution" "difficult classic hanging solution" "typhoid hanging solution" and so on, with the guidance of Huang's old-timers, look at the "Huangdi Neijing" "difficult classic" "typhoid" these classics can be twice as much effort with half the effort, relying on their own to look at the classics individually to understand the thorough is not impossible, but it takes a lot of time and a very high degree of enlightenment and persistence, is not the ordinary people can It is not possible to understand them by oneself, but it requires a lot of time and a high degree of enlightenment and perseverance, which is not something that ordinary people can do. This is where the lineage of ancient Chinese medicine lies. Therefore, the height of theory lies in how much can be penetrated at this stage. This stage is also the most important stage of learning Chinese medicine.