Martin Wang

Current Opinions on Shanghan Lun Martin Wang

Chinese herbal therapy has different styles. The most commonly applied styles are Conventional herbal formula style and Classical herbal formula style. For the former is the one taught in TCM school and the latter, is only briefly introduced in school. It is said that the former system is easy to learn in school but hard to have high effective healing level in later clinic practice. The latter style of TCM is based on book Shanghan Lun, which is difficulty to learn in beginning but has higher healing effect in later clinic practice. There are many reasons for this. In our book here, we introduce the opinions of many current TCM doctors for their understanding of the Shanghan Lun. We hope that, by learning from the different TCM experts, the beginners can quickly move into the gate of Classical herbal system and become real expert in TCM practice.