Traditional chinese medicine

Question 1

Three classical treatments often used in combination

Answer 1

• acupuncture
• moxibustion
• herbal medicine

Question 2

acupuncture

Answer 2

stimulation by needle or pressure of blocked Qi which means energy

Question 3

moxibustion

Answer 3

burning of moxa (leaves of mugwort, Artemisia vulgaris) in close proximity to affected energy points, in order to facilitate healing. moxibustion is invariably paired with with acupuncture

Question 4

herbal medicine

Answer 4

use of plant material (almost invariably a combination of herbs) to treat the root causes of disease. herbal formulae are not standardized, but are instead determined individually according to the judgment of a trained herbalist

Question 5

traditional chinese medicine is holistic

Answer 5

treating the whole person (considering mental and social factors) rather than just disease symptoms. it is based on the application of knowledge accumulated over thousands of years of chinese medical practice and differs fundamentally from contemporary western medicin

Question 6

chinese medicine based on

Answer 6

philosophical sciences

Question 7

CM approach

Answer 7

holistic-phenomenal

Question 8

CM health

Answer 8

cultivation of life force Qi

Question 9

CM treats

Answer 9

root causes

Question 10

CM studies

Answer 10

syndromes

Question 11

CM treatment

Answer 11

Adaptive

Question 12

Western medicine based on

Answer 12

physical sciences

Question 13

WM approach

Answer 13

analytic-structural

Question 14

WM health

Answer 14

elimination of disease and external pathogens

Question 15

WM treats

Answer 15

symptoms

Question 16

WM studies

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anatomy

Question 17

WM treatment

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standardized

Question 18

Traditional chinese medicine orgiins

Answer 18

works attributed to two ancient emperors
Huang Di and Shen Nong
(some debate as to whether these emperors actually existed)

Question 19

Huang Di

Answer 19

yellow emperor
-the yellow emperors canon offered a compromise that bridged the major Confusian and Taoist schools, forming a common system of medical philosophy and practice

Question 20

Shen Nong

Answer 20

Fire emperor

Question 21

When did the emperors live if they existed

Answer 21

4500-4700 years ago

Question 22

two foundations of chinese medicine

Answer 22

-huang-ti nei ching
(canon of internal medicine attributed to the yellow emperor)
-shen-nung pen ts’ao ching
(divine husbandman’s materia medica attributed to the fire emperor)
-these were the first great Chinese medical compilations
-they consolidated all potions, treatments and methods of diagnosis into a single text, thus establishing a standardized medical paradigm and philosophy throughout china, many centuries of chinese medical practice preceded these two compilations, but there was no standard traditional practive

Question 23

Han dynasty

Answer 23

current evidence indicates that the chinese works were actually written during the han dynasty (206BCE- 220BCE)

• tradition at that time was to assign authorship to great teachers and important persons from the past who had influenced the true authors
• a number of advances made during this time

Question 24

rival medical schools and philosophies existed based on :

Answer 24

taoist, confusian and buddhist beliefs

-in addition, there were strong regional differences based on competing lineages of medical families.

Question 25

Chang-chung-ching

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hippocrates of china

produced the shang han iun

Question 26

shang han iun

Answer 26

treatise on colds and devers

a classic on par with the yellow emporers canon

Question 27

ming dynasty

Answer 27

great advances made (1368-1644)

-pen ts-ao kang mu (great herbal)

Question 28

great herbal

Answer 28

compiled by li shih-chen over a 27 year period and finally published in 1580
medical properties and uses of over 1880 plants, as well as animal substances and minerals used in chinese medicine