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"Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology, under the auspices of the Department of Science and Education for the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, has compiled the English - Chinese Textbook Series in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) for undergraduate of college. These textbooks include Basic Theories of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Diagnostics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Materia Medica, Formulas of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Internal Medicine, Acupuncture & Moxibustion and an English - Chinese Dictionary of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This project is very scholarstic and now is coming into published for the first time domestically and abroad.

Traditional Chinese medicine possesses a unique theoretical system, rich clinical experience and excellent clinical effects. It has made great contributions to the health of mankind. Either now or future, based on its own potential, TCM will play increasingly important role in promoting the development of a world medicine, and is gaining more attention of peoples in the worl. More and more international friends are interested in TCM and they are studying and practicing TCM throughout the worl. In order to overcome the language barrier and to understand TCM correctly, they are eager for a set of TCM textbooks. They want these textbooks to be suitable for use in colleges of higher learning and accurate in English translation.

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine and Pharmacology is a key university among the TCM teaching institutions of higher learning in China. The university began to enroll foreign students in 1957. Since then, about one thousand foreign students coming from more than 70 countries and regions in the world graduated from it. At present, there are nearly 300 foreign students from 41 countries and regions studying at the university. Our university has accumulated rich experience in teaching foreign students and understands their special needs in the study of TCM. These years of practice in teaching has greatly helped the compilation of the TCM textbooks.

The authorities at our university highly evaluate the task of compiling and translating the TCM textbook series and oraganized a special working group of experienced professors and other professionals to compile the series. Based on the fifth edition of relevant all - China TCM textbooks of higher learning, the TCM textbooks absorb the latest achievements of scientific research in TCM, lay more stress on logicality, Scientificality and practicality, make every effort to contain more information and to build a rational framework of the content in an understandable and readable manner. This TCM textbook series is suitable for both foreign and Chinese students and all those who areinterested in TCM, both at home and abroad..."