Chinese Medicinal Herb Processing Techniques

a compulsory course of professional skills for vocational college students majoring in Chinese Materia Medica

has extremely high requirements for students in theoretical knowledge and practical skills. How to enable students to quickly and effectively master the course content is an urgent problem for both teachers and students. Since mind mapping is very suitable for outlining the knowledge framework of the course

this paper introduced the application of the visualizing technique in the course

pointed out the significance of such application

and illustrated the application with specific cases

showing that mind mapping could play a positive complementary role in the teaching to improve students′ learning efficiency.