以功效为切入点开展中药学教学的体会

Talking about the Experience of how to Carry out Chinese Materia Medica Teaching through Efficacy

中药学知识零碎、涉及面广、不易学习和掌握。而中药功效在中药理论中居于关键地位,它是联系药性与主治的桥梁与纽带。很多中药的四气五味、升降浮沉、临床应用等,几乎都可以从功效中体现出来。因此,教师可以通过重点分析和教授中药功效,并以此作为切入点,进行中药学学科的教学,以达到更快速、系统、牢固的学习记忆。

Chinese Materia Medica is not an easy subject to learn and master, with fragmentary knowledge, involving a wide range of aspects. In the process of teaching, Efficacy plays a key role in traditional Chinese herbs theory, which is a link between the nature and indications. Four natures and five flavors, ascending, descending, sinking, floating, as well as clinical applications of many traditional Chinese herbs could be virtually reflected from the efficacy. Therefore, teachers can focus on analysis of the efficacy as an entry point for traditional Chinese herbs teaching, in order to let students to achieve a more rapid, systematic, and unforgettable memory.