In Chinese medicine there are at least five different primary methods of healing and there are numerous other lesser known methods of healing. The main five methods of healing are acupuncture, herbology, Chi Kung, bone setting and tuina massage. Each of these methods has many subcategories, methods and different schools of thought.
YIN & YANG
BALANCE = UNITY OF POLAR OPPOSITES
TCM utilizes Chi and Yin and Yang theory. The basic idea as applied to Chinese Medicine is that balance is the proper state of health. Yin and Yang are polar opposites that are partly defined by each other such as big and small, fast and slow, hot and cold, action and stillness, light and dark, up and down, wet and dry etc.. If there is imbalance in the body, mind or spirit such as to much heat or to much cold then it is unhealthy and sickness will result. The goal of healing with TCM and healing Chi Kung is to restore, regulate and maintain Chi balance to the mind, body and spirit.
Yin and Yang theory is one of the least understood aspects of TCM by most Westerners because it is variable and not fixed. For example: Earth is Yang and Water is Yin. However, either can be yang/hot or yin/cold. Compared to hot water steam is Yin or light even though it is in a hotter (more yang) temperature state than the liquid hot water. Ice is more yang than cold water because it is harder than liquid water even though by virtue of the temperature it is in a colder (more yin) state. Fifty degree air temperature is yin compared to 100 degrees but is yang compared to 10 degrees.
ACUPUNCTURE MERIDIANS AND POINTS
The largest and most common school of thought in TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) utilizes meridian and pressure point theory. Meridians are invisible pathways in the body much like the nervous system that carries electrical pulses and stimuli except the meridians are thought to be channels or pathways that Chi energy flows through. Where the meridian lines can easily be accessed from the body surface is where most of the pressure points are located. Quite often pressure points are located in the same vicinity of the body where a blood artery or large vein and large nerves or nerve bundles are near the surface of the body.
Continued in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM Part 2)
Richard Clear
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EASY RESEARCH PAPER HELP!?
Okay, I am writing a research paper, and I really need help with the introduction! Here is my outline to help! I am so stuck and it’s due tomorrow!!! PLEASEEEEE HELP.
I.Foundation Chinese Medicine/Health
A.Developed thousands of years ago
B.Yellow Emperor’s Classic of Medicine
C.Yellow Emperor
D.Chinese Philosophy
II.Health & Illness
A.Illness is disharmony
B.Maintaining insures health & longevity
C.Pay attention before illness sets in
D.4 major causes of illness
E.Yin and yang
III.Food & Diet
A.Food selection important to maintain good health
B.Grains are foundation of diet
C.Cooking/ Eating are healing arts
D.Use is preventive and restorative medicine
E.5 tastes/actions
F.Chicken Chinese, olives, amber, peach pits, ginseng
IV.Medicine & Healing
A.Diet nutrition, food, herbs part of TCM
B.Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
a)Chinese medical practitioners
C.Still use traditional and herbal medicine
D.5 categories healing herbs
E.Food cures not used for serious conditions without medical help
F.Acupuncture
G.moxibustion
10 points to the best
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when one thinks of traditional Chinese medicine, potions and powders of tiger bones and rhino horns are the first ideas that come to mind. However, Chinese medicine is mostly a common sense approach that emphasizes maintenance, Diet, nutrition, and relaxation as paths to good health. In this and other ways one might say that traditional Chinese medicine is miles ahead of modern western medicine.
something like this?
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there’s so many of these questions here. people need to just do their own stinkin’ homework instead of waiting to the last minute and trying to get others to do it for them. 10 points oh goodie just want i always wanted for doing someone else work.
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