Research on the Academic Characteristics of Sichuan Chinese Medical School

Based on the previous research achievements on the Sichuan Chinese medical school, its academic characteristics are summarized, reflected, and condensed considering Sichuan as one of the "origins of Chinese medicine" and "reservoirs of Chinese materia medica". Besides, some new understandings about it are proposed. The formation of its academic characteristics is based on the complex geographical environment of Bashu, combined with the historical culture of Bashu with a local and immigrant cultural integration. Thus, it is fused in the academic exchanges between Chinese medical physicians inside and outside Sichuan. The academic characteristics of the Sichuan Chinese medical school are listed as follows: having a compatible attitude with a long history, having an innovative and pioneering spirit, as well as having inclusive and colorful cultural deposits. The above characteristics are manifested in diversified academic aspects, such as the combination of acrid and sweet medicinals, and good use of medicine with a hot or warm nature and acupuncture. The characteristics of the Sichuan school of Chinese materia medica include enjoying genuine regional medicinals with great yields and varieties, good at both medical practicing and formula prescribing, and putting emphasis on "treatment effects" and clinical practice.