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Title: Traditional Chinese Medicine


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Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • By
  • Ashley Esten
  • Sabrina Surdoval

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Traditional Chinese Medicine(TCM)
  • Derived from Taoist philosophy
  • Has been around since BC / early AD
  • Classical Chinese Medicine was standardized to
    what we now call TCM
  • Taught in nearly all medical schools in China
  • TCM accounts for 40 of care (higher in rural
    areas)

3
Traditional Chinese Medicine
  • Based on concept of balanced qi (chee), or vital
    energy that flows throughout the body.
  • Qi regulates spiritual, emotional, mental, and
    physical balance.
  • Influenced by yin (negative energy) and yang
    (positive energy).
  • Disease is a result of the qi being disrupted and
    yin/yang being imbalanced.

4
Elements and Principles of TCM
  • Five Elements
  • Water, wood, fire, earth, metal.
  • Describe interactions and relationships between
    phenomena.
  • Each organ is associated with one of the Five
    Elements. More effective to treat an organ during
    a particular time period.
  • Eight Guiding Principles
  • Cold/heat, deficiency/excess, internal/external,
    yin/yang.
  • Analyze and differentiate the energetic
    imbalances in the body or the nature of a
    patients condition.

5
How to Choose Among Healers?
  • In China, Western medicine and TCM are considered
    by the government to be of equal importance.
  • Choice of combined care is widespread.
  • Choose TCM/Western depending on illness.
  • TCM effective for immune conditions, chronic
    illness, or where the etiology is unknown
  • Western effective in acute situations or where
    the etiology is known
  • A study showed during a most recent illness
  • 73 consulted Western doctors, 17 self-medicated
    while 9 consulted herbalists (Note age and
    education were important determinants of their
    health care choice).
  • The most common reason given for their choice was
    faith in the practitioners they consulted.
  • When further consultation was needed for the same
    illness, 42 consulted herbalists, herbalists
    play an important complementary role when Western
    medicine fails to provide relief.

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Diagnostic Tools The Tongue
  • Has been an important diagnostic tool in TCM
  • Simple, non-invasive and inexpensive
  • To determine a patients condition and diseases,
    doctors use information on the color, degree of
    wetness and coarseness, and shape of the tongue.
  • A healthy tongue will be pink and moist with a
    thin clear or white coat.
  • Some signs of imbalance or pathology are red
    body, yellow coat, thick coat like mozzarella
    cheese, very dry body or cracks in the coat or
    body itself.

The diagram on the top represents the internal
organs. The center diagram represents the body as
having three parts - upper burner, middle burner,
and lower burner. The diagram on the bottom
represents the body as having two parts -
interior and exterior.
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Diagnostic Tools 12 Pulses
  • A practitioner of TCM feels for six pulses in
    each wrist.
  • Three superficial and three deep at specific
    points along the radial artery.
  • The quality of the pulse is looked at in terms of
    frequency, rhythm, and volume
  • These 12 pulses correspond to the internal
    organs.
  • There are different pulse types
  • Scattered, intermittent, swift, hollow, faint,
    surging (to name a few) all associated with
    different things
  • Diagnostic Clip

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Acupuncture
  • A practice of piercing (with fine needles)
    specific areas of the body (acupoints) to relieve
    pain, induce surgical anesthesia, and for
    therapeutic purposes.
  • Used typically as a last resort or for
    preventative measures (tune ups or balancing)

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Acupuncture cont.
  • Acupuncture has been proven effective in
    relieving postoperative pain, nausea during
    pregnancy, nausea and vomiting resulting from
    chemotherapy, and dental pain with extremely low
    side effects. It can also alleviate anxiety,
    panic disorders and insomnia (WHO 2003).
  • Acupuncture Clip

10
Moxibustion
  • A form of heat therapy where a moxa stick (made
    of dried leaves of artemesia vulgaris) is burned
    and used to indirectly heat specific acupuncture
    points or regions of the body.
  • It is usually used to relieve pain and congestion
    and to provide an anesthetic effect.
  • Acupuncture and moxibustion are considered
    complementary forms of treatment and are commonly
    used together.
  • Moxa sticks heat the needles which send heat down
    to the point in which the needle is inserted
    (usually a muscle) or the moxibustion is done
    around the areas of the needles.

11
Qigong (chi kung)Pronounced cheegong
  • Chinese system of physical training, philosophy,
    and preventive and therapeutic health care.
  • Combines aerobic conditioning, isometrics,
    isotonics, meditation, and relaxation.
  • Improves delivery of oxygen to the bodys cells,
    reduces stress, increases strength, lowers blood
    pressure, and improves resistance to infectious
    diseases.
  • Qigong is a soft form of a related set of
    disciplines that includes Taijj (Tai Chi Quan)
    and the hard form of Kung Fu.

12
Qigong cont.
  • Qigong can help one fight virtually any disease
    and helps prevent the onset of diseases .
  • Chinese doctors have applied qigong in hospitals
    and clinics to treat individuals suffering from a
    variety of ailments. These include
  • allergies, arthritis, asthma, bowel problems,
    constipation, diabetes, gastritis, gout,
    headaches, heart disease and hypertension,
    chronic kidney disease, liver disease, lower back
    pain, etc.
  • Qigong Clip

13
Massage
  • The Chinese call this therapeutic bodywork tui
    na, which means "push" and "pull".
  • Works with the qi in the body along the same
    meridians as acupuncture
  • Two popular styles of tui na practiced today are
    the rolling and one-finger methods.
  • Rolling Method used for joint and soft tissue
    problems, as well as insomnia, migraines, and
    high blood pressure. 
  • One-Finger Method similar to shiatsu,
    (practitioners push points along the meridians
    with the tip of the thumb or finger). used for
    chronic and internal problems, pediatrics and
    gynecological problems.

14
Herbs
  • Herbal remedies are used as often as acupuncture
    to treat energy imbalances and illness.
  • In China, traditional herbal preparations account
    for 30-50 of total medicinal consumption.
  • Derived from plant, animal, and mineral
    substances, though plants are the most common.
  • Herbs have four basic qualities and properties
  • Nature, Taste, Affinity, and Primary Action
  • When looking for the appropriate remedy, TCM
    practitioners apply medical theory - the Five
    Elements and Eight Guiding Principles - along
    with tongue and pulse diagnosis.

15
TCM Herbs in Practice
  • The herb Ma Huang (Ephedra) is traditionally
    used in China to treat respiratory congestion. In
    the United States, the herb was marketed as a
    dietary aid, whose over dosage led to at least a
    dozen deaths, heart attacks and strokes (WHO,
    2003).
  • Chinese herbal remedy Artemisia Annua, used in
    China for almost 2000 years has been found to be
    effective against resistant malaria and could
    create a breakthrough in preventing almost one
    million deaths annually, most of them children,
    from severe malaria (WHO, 2003).

Artemisia Annua
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Chinese Herb Example
  • SAN AO TANG
  • Functions Disperses Lung Qi, Releases the
    Exterior
  • Indications Wind Cold Invasion, mild chills and
    fever, common cold, influenza, headache, body
    aches, cough, shortness of breath, profuse clear
    sputum
  • Contra-Indications Hypertension, spontaneous
    sweating, cardiac arrhythmia
  • King Herb Ma huang (Ephedra) Disperse the Lung
    Qi, Release the Exterior (causes sweating)
  • Minister Herb Xing ren (Apricot seed) relieve
    shortness of breath, relieve cough
  • Assistant Herb Gan cao (Licorice root)
    harmonize all herbs

Ma huang (Ephedra)
Xing ren (Apricot seed)
Gan coa (Licorice Root)
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