What do you know after learning Chinese medicine?

Ahem, the first answer is that I am a sophomore majoring in acupuncture and massage in a provincial university of traditional Chinese medicine, which is not strictly Chinese medicine, but we really want to learn Chinese medicine. First of all, it must be affirmed that the medical profession is very hard. As the saying goes, as long as you choose the right major, you will win the college entrance examination at the end of each year, so in fact, your daily study and life are "full". It's normal to take seven or eight courses a month in the final exam, and the teacher rarely gives you the key points (will the patient get sick according to the key points? )。

Many people think that Chinese medicine is pseudoscience, but it is not. The thought of traditional Chinese medicine has been ahead of modern medicine for hundreds of years, and it is even more brilliant in today's epidemic situation. In COVID-19, Lianhua Qingwen Granule is considered as an effective drug to prevent this infection. In fact, when we were studying the basic theory of traditional Chinese medicine in the first semester, I really felt that we were like fortune tellers. We learned about five lines of gossip of Yin and Yang, and learned about the interaction of all things. There is an illusion that I can still do part-time fortune telling after graduation. We study meridians and acupoints to understand how human qi works. Although this is contrary to the theory of modern western medicine, as a beneficiary of Chinese medicine, I tell you from my personal experience that this is true. Acupuncture can really relieve my shoulder and neck pain quickly and relieve my chest tightness and shortness of breath caused by asthma. Someone may tell you that he has seen Chinese medicine for many times and it has no effect, so my suggestion is: change to a regular hospital.

Compared with western medicine, which I think is boring, Chinese medicine is more interesting, because it is difficult for you to understand what the so-called slippery pulse and sinking pulse feel from the language description in the textbook, and more you need to experience it yourself. Therefore, after class, our classmates often feel each other's pulse and look at the tongue picture. Meanwhile, the rumor is true! Our classmates really do acupuncture and massage with each other, because these things are really difficult to learn completely in textbooks and you need to practice them yourself. The students all said: what should I do if I can't recite the meridians and acupoints? Stab yourself ten times! You can remember it. No student can escape being treated as a guinea pig. Moreover, our Chinese medicine has two practical courses, one of which is going up the mountain to collect medicine! In the field, you can know what Chinese medicine grows in the field and understand the characteristics of Chinese medicine. Another way is to know the processed Chinese medicine in the medicine barrel of the school museum.

All of the above constitute my painful and happy college life.