Lecture 1- Traditional Chinese Medicine Flashcards
What are the 3 classical treatments?
Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Herbal Medicine
What is Qi?
it is loosely translated as “energy”
What can be burned in close proximity to affected energy points to facilitate healing?
moxa, leaves of mugwort
Traditional Chines medicine is holistic, what does this mean?
treating the whole person rather than just disease symptoms
Compare the differences and similarities between chinese and western medicine.
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What is considered the time of the Yellow and Fire Emperors?
4,500-4,700ya
What were the names of the works attributed to the Emperors?
Yellow- Canon of Internal Medicine
Fire- Divine Husbandman’s Materia Medica
Which work offered a “compromise”? What was this compromise?
The Yellow Emperor’s Canon offered a compromise that bridged themajor Confusian and Taoist school, forming a single system of medical philosophy and practice
When was the Han Dynasty?
206BCE - 220CE
Who was known as the “Hippocrates of China”? What did he produce?
Chang Chung-ching. Produced the Treatise on Colds and Fevers, a medical classic on par with the Yellow Emperor’s Canon.
What work took a 27-yr period to become published?
Great Herbal by Li Shih-chen in 1580.
It discussed the medicinal properites and uses of over 1,880 plants (as well as animal subst. and minerals)
