本套教材在编写过程中充分体现了专业性和实用性的结合,力图融合中医专业知识与英语听说训练,达到提高学生英语听说技能、丰富中医相关知识的编写目的。教材编排针对中医相关专业的本科生,以英语听说为核心,练习紧扣大学英语教学大纲,同时又兼顾中医专业词汇和传统文化知识的普及。本书为系列教材的第一册,共十六个单元,各单元主题分别为:Unit 1TCM Preventive Theory,Unit 2Daoism,Unit 3Medicated Diet,Unit 4Traditional Chinese Costumes,Unit 5Anecdotes of TCM,Unit 6Beauty,Unit 7The Naming and Classifying of Traditional Chinese Drug,Unit 8Four Inventions in Ancient China,Unit9Classics of TCM,Unit 10Education in Ancient China,Unit 11Body-Building Exercises of TCM,Unit 12Well-known Women in Ancient China,Unit 13Ethnomedicine,Unit 14 Lunar Calendar,Unit 15 Internationalization of TCM,Unit 16 Traditional Chinese Arts。