《道家良药》通过讲述传统中医兼山在中国古代文化“平衡”中寻找到自我内心平和的故事，探究了道教的基本原则及其与传统中医的关系。在江苏的山水间，兼山踏上了一段寻道的灵魂之旅，感受着老子笔下《道德经》中所描绘的宇宙，深入探索健康、生命与死亡的奥秘。在这片古老的土地上，五行“金、木、水、火、土”被奉为构成万物的基本元素，它们共同绘制出世间万象的和谐图卷。中医的智慧，将这一理念融入阴阳平衡的精髓之中，成为调节生命律动的根本法则。纪录片分为五个篇章，每一篇章都是对中医和五行哲学的一次深刻颂歌，透过兼山的生活点滴，展现了道家追求天人合一的至高原则，让我们得以一窥宇宙万物的基本法则。

Tao in Pills explores the basics principles of Taoism and its relationships with Traditional Chinese Medicine by narrating the life of Jian Shan, a traditional Chinese physician that found peace with the ancient Chinese culture of balance. Following him through a spiritual journey in the lands of Jiangsu, it shows the World as Lao-Tzu described it in the Tao-Te-Ching focusing on the themes of health, life and death. The ancient culture view the Earth, the Metal, the Water, the Wood and the Fire as the 5 element that describe and regulate all the processes of the World. The Traditional Chinese Medicine elevated this view, within the well-known Yin-Yang theory, to the fundamental principles of balance. Subdivided in 5 chapters, each of witch represent one of the 5 elements of TCM, Tao in Pills exploits the fundamental Taoist principle of unity to express the basic rules that regulate the World by narrating the life of a single man.