霍永红 中国文化概况 Lecture 4 Chinese traditional medicine.ppt

An Outline of Chinese Culture Lecture 4 TCM Pre-text quiz on vocabulary Texts: 1. Qi and Taoism 2. Relations of Five Elements 3. The meridians 4. Zang Fu organs 5. The pathogenesis of disease 6. Methods of diagnosis 7. Therapies Pre-text quiz on your vocabulary 经络 外因的 发病机理 变动的 过剩 不足 针灸 穴位 meridian exogenous pathogenesis fluctuating excess deficiency acupuncture points Text AText BText C Q A What is the fundamental concept in TCM? What is the relationship between Yin and Yang? How much do you know about the five elements? Relations of the five Elements The five-element System operates in cycles of mutual dependence, mutual generative, mutual nourishing, mutual exclusive, mutual controlling and other mutually inter-relative mechanisms. the Shang dynasty (1600–1100 BC) every phenomenon in the universe can be divided into sun-facing (yang) and the shady (yin) side of a hill/ water and fire yin or yang character of things: Yin vacuity (also termed vacuity-heat): heat sensations, possible night sweats, insomnia, dry pharynx, dry mouth, dark urine, a red tongue with scant fur, and a fine and rapid pulse. Yang vacuity (vacuity-cold): aversion to cold, cold limbs, bright white complexion, long voidings of clear urine, diarrhea, pale and enlarged tongue, and a slightly weak, slow and fine pulse. drugs believed to treat these specific symptom combinations, i.e., to reinforce yin and yang The application of Yin Yang to Chinese medicine Each organ has an element of yin yang within it. The total sum of the yin yang in the whole healthy body will be in fluctuating balance. Excess of yang will consume yin and a disease of heat of shi nature would develop. In deficiency of yin, diseases of heat of xu nature develop, while a deficiency of yang causes diseases of cold of xu nature. 2. Five Elements Element relation productive wood liver water kidney