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• Yes Acupuncture & Wellness Center on bellaire location (Nhan Hoa herbal pharmacy 仁和藥行) provides fresh Chinese loose herbs to TCM practitioners, ACAOM alumni and students. Please visit the location and choose herbs on 12989 Bellaire Blvd., 16A, Houston, TX 77072 (phone: 281-776-9888) 

• Dr. Yeh enthusiastically provides free consultation and advises for FBU & ACAOM alumni and all students when you have any question about your TCM future or any difficulty in TCM. Please contact us and make an appointment with Dr. Yeh at 713-782-1803.

• TCM practitioners must watch the video. †††This video focus on TCM medical oath from Dr. Simiao Sun in Tang dynasty (The great doctor/Da Yi Jing Chen 大醫精誠_孫思邈_為醫者須知)(Chinese)

       https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTUyMTgyMjI4MA==.html

THE GREAT DOCTOR (TCM medical oath from Dr. Si-miao Sun, 581-682 AD)

When a great physician treats diseases, he/she has to be mentally calm and his disposition firm. He/she should not give way to wishes and desires, but has to develop first of all a marked attitude of compassion. He/she should commit himself/herself firmly to a willingness to take the effort to save every living creature.

If someone seeks help because of illness or on the grounds of another difficulty, a great physician should not pay attention to status, wealth, or age, neither should he/she question whether this person is an enemy or friend, whether this person is a Chinese or a foreigner, or finally, whether this person is educated or uneducated. He/she should meet everyone on equal ground; he/she should always act as if he/she is not to ponder over his own fortune or misfortune and should thus preserve life and have compassion for it. He/she should look upon those who have come to grief as if he/she himself/herself has been struck, and he/she should sympathize with them deep in his/her mind. Neither dangerous mountain passes nor the time of day, neither should weather conditions nor hunger, neither thirst nor fatigue keep him/her from helping whole-heartily. Whoever acts in this manner is a Great Physician for the living. Whoever acts contrary to these demands is a great thief for those who still have their spirit.

Sun Si-Miao， Priceless Prescription (Qian Jin Yao Fang)， Quoted from Paul U. Unschuld， Medical Ethics in Imperial China. Berkeley: University of California Press， 1979

大醫精誠

凡大醫治病，必當安神定志，無欲無求，先發大慈惻隱之心，誓願普救含靈之苦。若有疾厄來求救者，不得問其貴賤貧富，長幼妍媸，怨親善友，華夷愚智，普同一等，皆如至親之想，亦不得瞻前顧後，自慮吉凶，護惜身命。見彼苦惱，若己有之，深心凄愴，勿避險巇、晝夜、寒暑、飢渴、疲勞，一心赴救，無作功夫形跡之心。如此可為蒼生大醫，反此則是含靈巨賊。自古名賢治病，多用生命以濟危急，雖曰賤畜貴人，至於愛命，人畜一也。損彼益已，物情同患，況於人乎！夫殺生求生，去生更遠。吾今此方所以不用生命為藥者，良由此也。其虻蟲、水蛭之屬，市有先死者，則市而用之，不在此例。只如雞卵一物，以其混沌未分，必有大段要急之處，不得已隱忍而用之。能不用者，斯為大哲，亦所不及也。其有患瘡痍、下痢，臭穢不可瞻視，人所惡見者，但發慚愧凄憐憂恤之意，不得起一念蒂芥之心，是吾之志也。
 

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