Learning the Four Diagnostic Methods and Grasping the Pulse of Structure
The four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicines(TCMs)were applied in the course of chemistry of TCMs to solve the problems that students could not handle because of the complexity of the chemical structures of TCMs and thus the difficulty of structural elucidation.The four diagnostic methods were applied to comprehensively analyze the relationship between the source and structural type,nature and structural characteristics,spectral characteristics and structural substitution of the chemical compo-nents of traditional Chinese medicine,and to develop the students'ability to solve practical problem by comprehensively understand and apply the knowledge.Using the four diagnostic methods to analyze the structural information,applying the prediction,observation,interaction,and detection successively to elucidate the structure were helpful for students to understand the process and importance of structural elucidation of chemical constituents of TCMs.Applying this method to the teaching of TCM chemical composition structure identification,combining the holistic view of TCM with the results of modern scientific research can solve the important and difficult points in teaching and help to train students'TCM thinking and scientific thinking.
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