NTMD 5030 Final
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Restores health and regulates the spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical harmony of the body by keeping the flow of qi and forces of yin and yang in balance. | ... |
| Benefits of Oriental Medicine | conducts electromagntic signals, releases endorphins, modulates and improves immunity, reduces pain and inflammation, reduces blood pressure, reduces body temperature, modifies meurotransmitters, modulates hormones |
| Diet therapy: for heating, eat... for cooling, eat ... for tonifying, eat ... for moistening, eat ... for drying, eat ... | (for heating, eat ) spicy foods and meat (for cooling, eat ) watermelon and cucumber (for tonifying, ) eat meat broths (for moistening, eat ) asparagus and watermelon for drying, eat ) crackers and chips |
| "Medicine and Food are the Same" | Neijin, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine |
| Which herb is used during moxibustion? | Artemisia |
| What is one reason that you would not want to use moxibustion? | if the patient has a lot of heat you should not use moxibustion |
| Tui Na | in between massage and Rolphing uses manipulation and massage |
| What happened between 421 and 221 BC? | Gold needles and silver needles found; Nan Jing Book of Difficult Questions: five element theory, eight extra meridians |
| What happened between 305 and 204 BC? | The Nei Jing, Yellow Emperor Classic of Internal Medicine: discussed anatomy, physiology, diagnosis, pathology, yin yang, syndromes, zang fu, needles and techniques |
| What happened in 1950? | Chairman Mao Zedong united Traditional Chinese Medicine with Western Medicine. Acupuncture was established in hospitals. |
| When did acupuncture become more accepted in the U.S.? | in the 1970s |
| Philosophy of the Dao | moderation living in harmony with nature striving for balance |
| Shen | Spirit, consciousness, soul, wisdom, will |
| vital substances | qi, blood, Jing (essence), Jin Ye (body fluids) |
| Jing | vital substance: essence |
| Jin Ye | vital substance: body fluids |
| Qi | vital force, energy (use and actualization) |
| What are types of Qi? | congenital, acquired (exercise and foods), reproductive, essential |
| What are actions of Qi? | activate, warms, defense, transforms, contains |
| What are disorders of Qi? | depletion (too much exercise), qi stagnation (can cause pain), counterflow (can cause belching), fall |
| xue | blood |
| Blood (xue) | mother of qi, moistens and nourishes organs and tissues, nourishes the shen, governed by the heart, managed by the spleen, qi moves the blood |
| xue disorders | depletion, blood stasis, blood heat (blood stagnation can cause blood heat - may cause acne) |
| Jing (Essence) | kidney essence, stored potential, reproduction and regeneration, inherited and acquired, regulates growth and development |
| Jing-shen | jing-shen (essence and spirit) = vitality |
| Jing disorder | reflects on the kidney depletion |
| jin | precious liquid (yang) lighter weight fluids on flesh and mucus membranes: sweat, saliva, urine, breast milk |
| ye | humor (yin) thicker fluids in organs, brain and bones: synovial fluid, CSF |
| Jin Ye | liquid and humor protects, nourishes, lubricates qi moves the Jin Ye |
| Jin Ye disorders | depletion, swelling, phlegm |
| If Jing and Qi are filled, .... | Shen will be intact |
| If Shen is disturbed, ... | Jing and Qi will be consumed and impaired |
| if Jing and Qi are deficient, ... | Shen will be prone to restless |
| The Relationship of Mind, Body, Spirit: The Three Treasures | Jing, Qi, Shen |
| Eight Principles | Yin and Yang Deficient and Excess Cold and Hot Interior and Exterior |
| Yin forces/aspects | dark, moon, water, passive, descending, female, contracting, cold, winter, interior, heavy, bone, front, interior of body |
| Yang forces/aspects | light, sun, fire, active, ascending, male, expanding, hot, summer, exterior, light, skin, back, exterior of body |
| Eight Principles: Deficient | Chronic/lingering pale, weak, thin, cold, yin |
| Eight Principles: Excess | acute/sudden robust, strong, obesity, heat, yang |
| Therapeutics for Deficient | tonify - gentle exercise, meat in diet, botanicals: ginseng and goji berries, warming hydrotherapy compresses |
| Therapeutics for Excess | purge - vigorous exercise, fruits and vegetables in the diet, botanicals: passiflora and gentian, cold hydrotherapy compresses and colonics |
| Eight Principles: Hot | flushed/sweaty, fever, irritability, inflammation, constipation, dry, yang |
| Eight Prinicples: Cold | pallor, chills, dull, cold limbs, diarrhea, clear urine, yin |
| Therapeutics for Hot | yin foods (fruits and vegetables), botanicals: peppermint and aloe, cold hydrotherapy compresses |
| Therapeutics for Cold | Yang foods (meats and garlic), botanicals: cinnamon and ginger, heating hydrotherapy compresses |
| Eight Principles: Exterior | superficial, affects the skin, lungs, muscles external pathogen, acute diseases, injuries of environment |
| Eight Principles: Interior | deep, affecting the meridians, organ system disease, chronic diseases, injuries of lifestyle |
| meridians | Qi that flows between the skin surface and the internal organs, along channels or pathways |
| how many meridians are there? | 12 major and 8 minor |
| Zang Yin | Lung, spleen, heart, liver, kidney, pericardium |
| Fu Yang | large intestine, stomach, small intestine, gall bladder, urinary bladder, San Jiao (triple burner) |
| Zang organs ... | produce, transform, regulate and store the four substances |
| Fu organs ... | break down and absorb the food that will transform into the four substances and excrete the used |
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