99 Foundation Of Chinese Language And TCM Terminology

To learn Chinese medicine thoroughly, it is not necessary to learn the Chinese language (particularly Chinese characters such as 'ni', which means 'you'), for it often takes many years just to learn the basic sentences. However, the student does need to learn "Pinyin" (which is basically the romanization of Chinese characters), because acupuncture points, Chinese herbs and herbal formulas (which make up the major portions of Chinese medicine) are referred to in Pinyin. This course is designed to prepare students to understand and use the Pinyin system of the Chinese language. (As Chinese students will not be taking this course, Study of Chinese Medical Classics is offered instead.).

100 Foundation of TCM

Course objectives:

1. Philosophical foundation of TCM and its essential ways of thinking: theory of pure essence, yin and yang, five elements, essential ways of thinking.
2. Energy, blood, and body fluids: energy, blood, body fluids, relationships between energy, blood, and body fluids.
3. Viscera and bowels: five viscera, six bowels, odd and constant organs, and relationship between viscera and bowels.
4. Meridians: basic concepts and system of meridians, basic physiological functions of meridians, twelve master meridians, eight extra meridians, separate master meridians, separate linking meridians, muscular meridians, skin zones.
5. The body and senses.
6. Causes of diseases: external causes, internal causes, causative pathological products, other causes.
7. Pathology: pathological mechanisms and types.
8. Disease mechanisms: basic mechanisms, transmission and change of diseases.
9. Healthy lifestyles and treatment principles.

101 Diagnosis of TCM

Introduction:

1. Diagnosis by observation.
2. Tongue diagnosis.
3. Diagnosis by hearing and smelling.
4. Diagnosis by interrogation.
5. Pulse diagnosis.
6. Palpation.
7. Eight classifications of symptoms.
8. Differentiation of syndromes by causes, energy, blood, and body fluids.
9. Differentiation of syndromes by viscera and bowels.
10. Introduction to other types of syndrome differentiation.
11. Methods of diagnosis and application of syndrome differentiation.
12. Introduction to diagnosis of diseases.
13. How to write patient's records.

102 Chinese Herbology (1)

1. Origin of Chinese Herbs and Development of Chinese Herbology.

2. Habitat and Collection of Herbs.
    2-1 Habitat of Herbs.
    2-2 Collection of Herbs.

3. Forms of Preparing Herbs for Consumption.
    3-1 Purposes of Preparation.
    3-2 Methods of Preparation.

4. Four Properties and Actions of Herbs.
    4-1 Four Energies.
    4-2 Five Flavors.
    4-3 Movements of Herbs.
    4-4 Meridian Routes.
    4-5 Toxicity.

5. Combination of Chinese Herbs.

6. Measures of Precaution in Consuming Herbs.

7. Dosages and Methods of Consuming Herbs.
    7-1 Dosages of Consumption
    7-2 Methods of Consuming Herbs.

8. Classifications of Herbs and representative herbs in each class:

103 Chinese Acupuncture (1)

Course objectives:

1. The component and actions of jing-luo (meridians).
   The twelve meridians (shi er jing mai); the eight extra meridians (qi jing ba mai); fifteen main collaterals (shi wu luo); the branches of the twelve meridians (shi er jing bie); the muscles along the twelve meridians (shi er jing jin); the twelve skin areas (shi er pi bu).
   
2. The physiology and pathology of meridians.
   
3. Clinical applications of meridians in the field of diagnosis and treatment.
   
4. The classifications of acupuncture points.
   The acupuncture points on the fourteen master meridians; extraordinary points, a shi points.
   
5. The actions of acupuncture points.
   Distant actions; local actions; special actions.
   
6. Special points.
   Five shu points (wu shu xue), original points (yuan xue), linking points (luo xue), transport points (shu xue), gathering points (mu xue), eight meridians eight meeting points (ba mai jiao hui xue), fissural or cleft points (xi xue), lower terminal points or lower sea points (xia he xue).
   
7. Locating acupuncture points.
   The twelve meridians and their points.
   
8. Lungs meridian (shou tai yin fei jing) and its points.
   
9. Large intestine meridian (shou yang ming da chang jing) and its points.
   
10. Stomach meridian (zu yang ming wei jing) and its points.

104 Western Anatomy

Course objectives:

To study the structure of the human body. In Chinese acupuncture, surface anatomy is considered very crucial in locating acupuncture points, whereas Western anatomy is focused on the structure of organisms. Both systems of anatomy will be studied in this course.

105A Chinese Tui Na / Qi Gong

Course objectives:

Qi-gong refers to breathing exercises to discipline the energy in the body to achieve an internal balance. Tui-na refers to the Chinese system of manipulative therapy which is a very useful system of external therapy, broader than Western massage in scope. In this course, various methods of qi-gong and tui-na will be studied.

108 Western Biology

This course is designed to achieve seven objectives:

A general understanding of the chemistry of life (biochemistry), the cell (cell biology), genetics, the evolutionary history of biological diversity, plant form & function and animal form & function

109 Surface Anatomy & Acupuncture Points

This course is designed to achieve two objectives: first, to understand the basic terms in surface anatomy; second, to learn the locations of acupuncture points with reference to surface anatomy. The anatomical terms to be learned include terms such as acromioclavicular joint, acromion, ala nasi, gastrocnemius muscle, head of fibula, 7th cervical vertebra, greater trochanter, hiatus sacralis, hyoid bone, etc. As to acupuncture points to be learned, this course covers virtually all the established points on the fourteen meridians.

110 History Of TCM

This course covers the following topics of study in the history of TCM:

1. Introduction to the ancient history of Traditional Chinese Medicine

1. The budding of medical knowledge during the primitive society.
   
2. Legends stage of medicine.
   
3. The find from the Ma Wang Dui Chinese tomb in Chang sha in 1973, which marks the earliest system of Chinese medicine unearthed.
   
4. Four most important classics.
   

2. Outstanding physicians in historical perspective

1. Spring and Autumn period (770-476) and the Warring States period (475-221 BC).
   
2. The Qin Han period (206-220 AD).
   
3. The six dynasties and West Jin period (220-589).
   
4. The Sui dynasty period (581-618).
   
5. The Tang dynasty (618-907).
   
6. The Song dynasty period (960-1279).
   
7. The Jin and Yuan dynasties (1115-1368).
   
8. The Ming dynasty (1368-1644).
   
9. The Qing dynasty (1644-1911).
   
10. The period after 1911.
    

3. Schools of thought

1. The Classical school.
   
2. The Shang Han school.
   
3. The school of cold-cool remedies.
   
4. The school of tonifying earth.
   
5. The school of counteracting pathogenic attack.
   
6. The school of watering yin.
   
7. The school of warming and tonifying.
   
8. The school of warm diseases.
   
9. The school of integrating Chinese and Western medicines.
   
10. Acupuncture: past and present.
    

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