1. Traditional Chinese medicine is an undergraduate major in ordinary universities and belongs to the category of traditional Chinese medicine. This major mainly cultivates high-quality application-oriented and compound senior professionals with Chinese medicine thinking, basic theory and knowledge, basic ability of Chinese medicine quality evaluation, preparation analysis and research and development, self-study and lifelong learning ability, and ability to engage in Chinese medicine identification, processing, pharmacy, clinical rational drug use, drug management and research and development.
2. Pharmacognosy refers to the knowledge of the name, source (basic source), production (cultivation), collection (collection and processing), identification (authenticity identification and quality evaluation), chemical composition, medical use, tissue culture, resource development and utilization, and new drug creation of crude drugs. In other words, pharmacognosy is a subject that studies the application of natural drugs by using the knowledge of materia medica, botany, zoology, chemistry, pharmacology, medicine and molecular biology.
3. Pharmaceutics is a comprehensive applied technical discipline to study the theory, production technology and quality control of pharmaceutical preparations. Its basic task is to study the preparation of drugs into suitable dosage forms and ensure that high-quality preparations can meet the needs of medical and health work. Because the principle and technical operation of prescription preparation and preparation are basically the same, the discipline that combines the two parts is called pharmacy. Great progress has been made in modern pharmacy, including biopharmaceutics and physical pharmacy.