Essentials of Chinese Medicine Vol.1.pdf

Essentials of Chinese Medicine

Zhanwen Liu

Editor

Liang Liu

Associate Editor

Warner Fan

English Consultant

Shiping Zhang

Associate English Consultant

Editorial Team

Baixiao Zhao

Chunguang Xie

Cunku Chang

Haihong Zhu

Hongyi Hu

Kui Wang

Lanzheng Li

Songping Luo

Yuxiang Zhai

Zhaoxiang Bian

Essentials of Chinese

Medicine

Vo l u m e 1

Foundations of Chinese Medicine

123

Editor

Associate Editor

Zhanwen Liu

Dept. Health Preservation & Rehab

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

11 Beisanhuan East Road

Chaoyang 100029, Beijing

PR China

liuzhanwen4569@sina.com

Liang Liu

School of Chinese Medicine

Hong Kong Baptist University

Kowloon Tong

Kowloon

Hong Kong/PR China

liuliang@hkbu.edu.hk

ISBN 978-1-84882-589-5

e-ISBN 978-1-84882-590-1

DOI 10.1007/978-1-84882-590-1

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Foreword

The Essentials of Chinese Medicine is a text book intended for international students

who wish to gain a basic understanding of Chinese Medicine (CM) at the university

level. The idea of writing such a text was originated from the Sino-American

Consortium for the Advancement of Chinese Medicine (SACACM), which was

founded in February 2000. In 1995, the British Hong Kong Administration set up a

Preparatory Committee for the Development of Chinese Medicine to look into ways

of bringing Chinese medical practice and herbal trade under proper control and reg-

ulation. After the reuniﬁcation of Hong Kong with mainland China in 1997, the

Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region continued the efforts

to uplift the practice of CM to a fully professional level through legislation.

To help bring up a new generation of professional CM practitioners, the Hong

Kong Baptist University (HKBU) obtained approval from the Government’s univer-

sity funding authority to develop a School of Chinese Medicine to prepare students

who will meet the future professional requirements through public examinations.

In order to establish itself quickly as a rigorous provider of university level CM

education, HKBU sought alliance with eight major CM universities in the Chinese

Mainland, and one US university which was interested in developing CM educa-

tion within its medical college. As a result, the Consortium known as SACACM

was formed, with ten founding institutions from Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shan-

dong, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Heilongjiang, Hong Kong, and the United States. (The

University of Macau and the Macao University of Science and Technology joined

the Consortium 2 years later.)

One of the ﬁrst projects the Consortium decided to pursue was the writing of a

high quality CM text book in English to be endorsed by the member institutions as

the foundation for the study of traditional Chinese medicine. The Beijing Univer-

sity of Traditional Chinese Medicine, being one of the oldest and better developed

institutions in the ﬁeld, was nominated to be the coordinating university for the

project, with the active assistance of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese

Medicine of China (SATCM). The initial funding for the project was provided by

the Hong Kong Baptist University and the Ohio University of the USA. An edito-

rial committee was formed to decide on the general coverage and level of the text,

and each of the member universities of CM were requested to nominate their senior

professors to write the assigned chapters according to their ﬁelds of specialty. These

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