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[Learning Guidance]

1.To have an understanding of traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）and its property as a subject, and to mater the basic theories of TCM and the basic concepts of the theoretical system of TCM through learning the formation and development of the theoretical system of TCM.

2.To understand the basic characteristics of traditional Chinese medicine, that is, holism and syndrome differentiation and treatment, and to master the relevant concepts such as syndrome, syndrome differentiation, treatment based on syndrome differentiation, different treatments for the same disease and same treatment for different diseases.

Traditional Chinese medicine（TCM）has a history of thousands of years. It is the valuable experience of understanding life, maintaining health and fighting diseases accumulated by the Chinese nation in her long-term of production and life practice.It is an important part of China's excellent national cultural heritage.TCM made a great contribution to the Chinese nation's health and prosperous development in the past thousands of years, belonging to traditional medicine.