Recommended to read "Chinese New Materia Medica"!

For a long time, from "Shennong Materia Medica" to "Evidence Class Materia Medica", "Materia Medica", etc., the pharmacological knowledge has always stayed at the level of experience transmission, is the generation after generation of people's continuous experience and record, for the drug properties of the formation of the formation of the mechanism of the rarely discussed. As the saying goes, one knows what is true, but not what is true. This inevitably affects people's understanding, grasping and use of medicinal properties and affects the further development of herbology. The Chinese New Materia Medica from astrophysics, chemistry and other different disciplines of the herb drugs, including the Taoist herbs, the performance of the formation of the mechanism, carried out a multi-faceted systematic explanation and elaboration, put forward the herb drugs and their performance characteristics of the environmental product of the point of view, it is the yin and yang and the encounter is the result of the endowment of time and space. --Excerpts from the preface of President Guo Hongchang

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, our country has reorganized the theoretical systems of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine have each become a first-level discipline, with different second-level disciplines under them. People's way of inheriting Chinese medicine has also gradually changed from the ancient ways of self-study, family tradition and following teachers to school learning as the main way, supplemented by other ways. Scholars in the disciplines of Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine have begun to focus their research on key scientific issues in their respective disciplines. However, this division of the overall knowledge system of Chinese medicine theory is overly divided, resulting in a situation where "doctors do not know medicine and medicine does not know doctors", which makes the research, teaching, production and management of traditional Chinese medicine disconnected from its clinical application, and students graduated from the institutions have great similarities and limitations, so that the inheritance and development of traditional Chinese medicine are faced with a huge dilemma. The heritage and development of Chinese medicine are facing a great dilemma.

This book is rich in content and profound in thought, providing a unique approach to the inheritance and learning of Chinese medicine, and offering new methods and theories for the inheritance and development of Chinese medicine, making it a new materia medica with important reference value. The author explains the relationship between Chinese medicine and Western medicine, the relationship between the performance of Taoist herbs and geography and environment, and the relationship between micro-ecology and performance from a unique perspective, which shows the author's cultural self-confidence in Chinese medicine, and explains the scientific connotations and philosophical thinking embedded in Chinese medicine through objective reasoning. At the same time, the content of traditional herbal medicine is explored from the aspects of celestial mechanics, geography, climatology, biology, botany, life science, chemistry, physics and philosophy. Combining the origin, change and development of herbal medicine with the history of human civilization, the author explains the life theory of herbal medicine from the perspectives of material view, soul view, ecological view, and the view of unity of man and nature, and develops a multi-faceted exposition on the application of herbal medicine. In addition, with the help of the "holistic view" of Chinese medicine, the author develops the properties of herbs into seven parts, namely, heat and cold, moistness and dryness, taste, smell, color, tendency, and law, which are rich in content. Based on the traditional understanding of herbs, the author combines his own viewpoints to explain the theory of the medicinal properties of herbs, and the reasons for the properties of herbs and the characteristics of their properties; With the help of "elephant thinking", it explains the classification of drugs and constructs its classification standard, so that the hidden **** characteristics among herbs can be revealed.

Mr. Dao Ding's love and study of Chinese medicine is worthy of our admiration and learning, and the book's perspective on Chinese medicine is worthy of our reference and understanding. Compared with the professional teaching books, this book's thesis basis and point of view is not lacking in limitations and deficiencies, but it promotes the research of the study of Chinese herbal medicine, we can not blame it, but should be adhering to the attitude of acceptance, discernment and about taking, this book as an important supplement to the existing teaching materials to study, the publication of this book will also develop and enrich the academic research of Chinese medicine. ----? Excerpt from the preface by Prof. Li Xuelin