Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the rudimentary course for the study of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and the basis for the further study of other relevant TCM In the long course of international teaching, we get aware that the previous textbook on the Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine has become a "bottleneck" inhibiting the development of TCM international education, for their language is rather out of date, the quotations are complicated and the argumentation is obscure.
To fit in with TCM development in the 21st century and meet the demands for TCM international education, Higher Education Press has organized the series of National Planned University Textbooks for International Traditional Chinese Medicine Education Based on elaborate summarization of experiences of national higher-learning institutes engaged in TCM international education, we have entrusted compilers, experienced in international education, with the compilation of the book. This book has been approved as 11th Five-Year National Planned Textbooks for Higher Education.
Based on the teaching scheme for domestic TCM undergraduate education, this book covers the examination outline for professional TCM practitioners (acupuncturists) at home and abroad. It fully reflects the contents of “basic theories, basic knowledge and basic techniques", and amplifies some contents beyond the outline in accordance with the needs of overseas practice of traditional Chinese medicine.
Considering the foreigner's special mode of thinking, study habit and difficulty at the starting point, the book adopts standardized of TCM terms. Except for special occasions, there is no quotation from classics in the text so as to come at the explicit concepts, precise definitions, clear structure as well as smooth and brief writing, which makes the book practical for both teaching and learning.
The book takes full advantage of sophisticated concepts, methods and techniques of textbook compilation abroad, especially the expressive methods popular among foreign countries, It not diverging from original texts, going against the basic theories of TCM, or destroying the integrity of the whole book, the contents are illustrated by figures and tables, which makes its form diverse and its content object, vivid and easy to be understood.