The basic content of this Clinical Essentials of Contemporary Series Chinese Medine initiallycame from my lecture notes on Traditional Chinese Medicine prepared for Gero Missoni， an Aus-trian physician， and other doctors in 1989. The notes were supplemented during the next twoyears when I lectured at the Toulouse University in France. Later， this material was enhancedand became especially valuable when I began to work with the Goto College of Medical Arts andSciences in Japan in 1996 to train postgraduate students in a master s degree course in TCM.