China

Question 1

Chinese medicine was first attributed to whom?

Answer 1

Shen Nung

• first to compile herbals and invented acupuncture

Question 2

What is the Nei Ching (Book/Canon of Medicine)?

Answer 2

• most comprehensive, theoretical and clinical classic (18 volumes)
• centered on fundamental theories of Chinese traditional medicine
• implies preventive medicine

Question 3

The Nei Ching is divided into two parts. What are they called?

Answer 3

Su Wen (Questions and Answers) and Zhen Jing/Ling Shu (Laws on Acupuncture)

Question 4

The Nei Ching is attributed to whom?

Answer 4

Emperor Huang

Question 5

What are the important branches that deal with physiological and pathological problems in the trad. chinese system?

Answer 5

1) visceral organs theory

2) channels and collaterals

Question 6

Name some clinical standpoints in Nei Ching

Answer 6

• heart = main organ for circulation; blood flow is constant (Su Wen)
• examination by feeling pulse; autopsy (Acupuncture)
• length and parts of digestive tract (Gastroenteric Study)
• treatment of thromboendarteritis via amputation of blood vessel (Carbuncles)

Question 7

Who is Bian Que?

Answer 7

Pioneer in medical examination and pulse feeling (temporal [head], tibial [legs] and radial [wrist] arteries)

Question 8

Variety of treatments stated in Su Wen

Answer 8

• oral drug administration
• diet
• surgery
• moxibustion
• acupuncture
• massage
• tapping of fluids

Question 9

What is the guanyuan?

Answer 9

• Point where needle is inserted in a process called abdominal paracentesis in order to treat ascites
• 10 cm below umbilical cord

Question 10

Who wrote the Treatise on Febrile and other Diseases (Shang Han Za Bing Lun)?

Answer 10

Zhang Zhongjing

Question 11

The treatise on febrile and other diseases was later divided into two books. What were they called?

Answer 11

Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Febrile Diseases) and Jin Qui Yao Lue (Jin Qui Collection or Prescriptions)

Question 12

What are the four methods for diagnosing fevers (and other disorders) that Zhang Zhongjing proposed?

Answer 12

• examination
• auscultation
• inquiry
• pulse feeling

Question 13

What are the “eight keys” of diagnostics that Zhangjing suggested?

Answer 13

• yin / yang
• external / internal factors
• fever / cold
• deficiency / excess

Question 14

The “eight therapies” is a general system of therapeutic methods. What is it composed of?

Answer 14

• channels and collaterals (Su Wen)
• four methods (TFOD)
• eight keys (TFOD)

Question 15

Name two other works on medicine

Answer 15

• Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing (Shen Nong’s Materia Medica)

- Nan Jing (Classics on Difficulty)