Series of Textbooks for International

Higher Education of Traditional Chinese

Medicine（Chinese and English Versions）

Preface

Acupuncture and moxibustion has been inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage and has been accepted by people of many countries because its unique treating methods can release patients from their sufferings. According to statistics, the foreign students learning acupuncture and moxibustion account for the biggist percentage of all the foreign students in China.Many countries have legislation recognizing its legal status, and accordingly set up acupuncture and moxibustion colleges and universities.（Chinese and English versions）.

The spreading of acupuncture and moxibustion to the world is the trend. In order to cultivate international TCM personnel of higher level, according to the five-year professional curriculum of acupuncture and moxibustion major of Chinese universities of traditional Chinese medicine, the editorial committee of series of textbooks for international higher education of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Orthopedics Education Research Association and domestic and foreign traditional Chinese medicine colleges and universities jointly compiled this series of textbooks（including a total of the following 15 books-Meridians and Collaterals and Acupoints, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Manipulations, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Therapeutics, Experimental Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Selected Classics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Basics of Tuina, Tuina Manipulations, Tuina Therapeutics, Basics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Orthopedics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Internal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Surgery, Chinese Materia Medica and Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine）.The English versions of this set of series of textbooks are translated by professors and experts teaching traditional Chinese medicine in English in domestic and foreign institutions of traditional Chinese medicine.

Under the organization of the Association and with the support of the institutions and the help from those loving traditional Chinese medicine, the Chinese version and the English version of this series of textbooks will be published separately.

This series of textbooks are for the domestic and foreign undergraduates, postgraduates and doctoral students majoring in traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture and moxibustion.

We are inexperienced in organizing to compile bilingual textbooks for international higher education of traditional Chinese medicine for the first time, and the inadequacies are going to be amended for reprint.

Thanks to the joint efforts of many TCM experts and professors and the great support from the executive presidents and senior presidents of China Orthopedics Talent Research Association and their working units, this series of textbooks are to be published. I'm extending appreciation to all of them.

Song Yitong

President of China Orthopedics Talent Research Association

President of Orthopedics Education

Research Association of TCM Colleges

Chairman of International Higher TCM Education Association

Professor of Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine