Traditional Chinese Medicine

MA RUIJIE

M.D. PhD. Professor

The Third Affiliated Hospital Of

Zhejiang Chinese Medical University

Contents

Introduction to TCM

Qi and Blood Circulate

The Five Elements

Yin and Yang

Herbal Medicine

Acupuncture

Other Therapies

Disputes Between TCM and Western Medicine

• The civilization of China is an important component of the world civilization harboring great diversity and TCM was formed and developed in the daily life of the Chinese people and in the process of their fight against diseases over thousands (even millions) of years.

Introduction to TCM

Introduction to TCM

History

•With a history of about 2500 years

•Chinese unique system to diagnose and cure illness

•《黄帝内经》、《黄帝八十一难经》、《伤寒杂病论》、《神农本草经》

Theoretical Basis

•The Theory of Yin-Yang

•The Theory of Five Elements

• Qi and Blood

•Zhangfu Organ

Introduction to TCM

The Treatment of Disease

•Four diagnostic methods: inspection, olfaction, inquiry, and palpation

• Herbal Therapy

•Acupuncture

•Tui na

•Cupping

•Gua Sha

•Bone-setting

•Qigong Therapy

•Chinese food therapy

Chinese medicine has been listed in the ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases) by WHO on May 25th, 2019.

TCM has been spreaded to 183 countries and districts

Yin and Yang

Phenomenon Yin Yang

Celestial bodies moon sun

Gender female male

Location inside outside

Temperature cold hot

Direction downward upward

Degree of humidity damp/moist dry

• Grown out of the tenets of Daoism

•Everything in the universe can be divided into

two aspects

The Five Elements

All phenomenon of the universe and nature can be broken

down into five elemental qualities.

Phenomenon Wood Fire Earth Metal Water

Direction East South Centre West North

Colour green/blue red yellow white black

Climate wind heat damp dryness cold

Taste sour bitter sweet acrid salty

Zang Organ Liver Heart Spleen Lung Kidney

Fu Organ Gallbladder Small intestine Stomach Large intestine Bladder

Sense organ eye tongue mouth nose ears

Facial part above bridge of nose

between eyes, lower part

bridge of nose between eyes, middle part

cheeks (below cheekbone)

Eye part iris inner/outer corner of the eye

upper and lower lid

sclera pupil

•Fire (火) = Heart (心) and Small Intestine (小肠)

•Earth (土) = Spleen (脾) and Stomach (胃)

•Metal (金) = Lung (肺) and Large Intestine (大肠)

•Water (水) = Kidney (肾) and Bladder (膀胱)

•Wood (木) = Liver (肝) and Gallbladder (胆)

Water nourishes Wood

Wood feeds Fire

Metal chops Wood.

The Philosophic Foundation of TCM------------- wu xing theory

Qi and Blood Circulate

Qi

Blood

Body fluids

Organs

Meridians

Actuation, Warming, Defense,

Containment, Transformation

tears, sputum, saliva, gastric acid, joint fluid, sweat, urine, etc.

TCM identifies 12 "regular" and 8 "extraordinary" meridians

Herbal Medicine

Prescription

•With four to twenty herbs, formulate a pair TCM

Raw materials •Herbs

•Animal substances

•Human body parts

Categorization

the temperature characteristics :hot (re), warm (wen), cold (han), neutral

(ping), and aromatic.

the taste property :sour (suan), bitter (ku), sweet (gan), spicy (xin), and salty.

Forms

Decoction, pills, tablets, capsules, powders, alcohol-extracts,

water-extracts, plaster,etc.

Acupuncture

•Based on the theory of meridians

•Acupoints

•Moxibustion

Various Therapies of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Phelps

Wormwood

Disputes Between TCM and Western Medicine

• As a result, many people turn to natural and traditional therapies for wisdom and help, among which the TCM is a major one.

In Pursuit of Natural Therapies

1. treat disease OR treat person

2. standardized OR individualized

3. precise OR fuzzy

4. structural OR relational

5. laboratory OR empirical

• 1. To make up some limitations of conventional biomedicine

• 2. Rise of systems biology

• 3. Life nurturing

• 4. A source of new ideas

Values of TCM in modern times

Chinese medicine has

been recognized by WHO in the

ICD-11 (International Classification of Diseases)

Western

Medicine

Chinese

Medicine

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