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Chinese Medicine

This guide will assist RMIT students who are studying Chinese medicine.

Find books, e-books and chapters

Login and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and chapters.

  • Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.

  • Use OR to find any words or synonyms.

  • Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.

  • Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search: 

("chinese medicine" OR "alternative medicine") AND acupuncture AND Australi*

中华本草 Zhong hua ben cao

RMIT University Library holds the 10 volume Chinese language work entitled Zhong Hua Ben Cao.

Books about influential physicians

Bian Que (401 - c. 310 BC)

Hua Tuo (140 - 208)

Li Gao (1180 - 1252)

Li Shizhen (1518 - 1593)

Liu Du Zhou (1917 - 2001)

Sun Simiao (581 - 682)

Zhang Jingyue (1583 - 1640) 

Zhang Zhongjing (150 - c. 219) 

Zhu Zhenxi (1280 - 1358)

Evidence-based clinical Chinese medicine

Created by the China-Australia International Research Centre for Chinese MedicineWorld Scientific publishers describe Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine as a major milestone in international development of Chinese medicine as a form of evidence-based healthcare.

This work consists of 29 volumes.

Volume 1 was published in November 2015, with the other volumes to be published, out of sequence, over a number of years.

Search the RMIT Library for Evidence-based Clinical Chinese Medicine to locate volumes available in the Library. 

e-Books guide

See the Library’s e-Book guide for tips on using e-books.

Search skills

Assignments: get started- find out how to research your topic to find suitable information.