The Yellow River Delta (YRD) TCM School is an important branch of the Qilu TCM School. Relying on the regional culture and herbal resources of the Yellow River Delta, it has formed distinctive schools such as Zheng's Gynecology, Niu's Miscellaneous Diseases, Mao's TCM, and Zhang's Ophthalmology, accumulating profound academic achievements in fields like TCM specialist diagnosis and treatment, epidemic prevention and control, and health preservation. Through literature review, field research, and case analysis, this paper systematically sorts out the historical context and core characteristics of the school, analyzes the challenges it faces in inheritance, including "impact of modernization, outdated inheritance methods, talent gap, and insufficient academic transformation", and combines the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and local practices in Binzhou to propose a development path centered on "TCM + Academic Inheritance", "TCM + Talent Cultivation", and "TCM + Industrial Integration". Its innovation lies in embedding "regional characteristic diagnosis and treatment experience" into a "multi-field cross-border integration" framework, solving the problems of "fragmented experience and closed inheritance" of traditional schools. Research shows that this path can promote the school to achieve an 80% digital coverage rate of core techniques and a 30% industrial transformation rate of characteristic empirical prescriptions within 3 years. Only through the dialectical unity of "upholding the essence" and "pursuing innovation" can the YRD TCM School achieve the dual improvement of academic value and social value, and provide a "Binzhou Model" for the inheritance and innovation of TCM in the Yellow River Delta.

Huikai Wang, Min Shi, Shuhan Zheng. Study on the Inheritance and Development of the Yellow River Delta (YRD) Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) School: Exploration Based on the "TCM +" Model. Academic Journal of Medicine & Health Sciences (2025), Vol. 6, Issue 8: 62-67. https://doi.org/10.25236/AJMHS.2025.060808.

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