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Everyday Chinese Medicine 2

Everyday Chinese Medicine 2

Instructors: Yung Tat To

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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6 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

235 reviews

Beginner level

No prior experience required

Flexible schedule

4 hours to complete

Learn at your own pace

98%

Most learners liked this course

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There are 6 modules in this course

This course, Everyday Chinese Medicine II offered by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aims to show to the public, as well as the healthcare professionals about the basic principles of Chinese medicine. Our primary goal is to empower healthcare choices by promoting awareness and practical application on Chinese medicine diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and to facilitate interprofessional education between Chinese and conventional clinicians.

Learners will develop skills in applying theories of Chinese medicine for understanding health and illnesses. We will discuss the treatment principles of Chinese Medicine and the corresponding herbs for application. This will then be followed by the application of diets and exercise. Finally, we would expand the horizons of how integrative medicine are practiced in Chinese populations such as China, Taiwan and Hong Kong for specific diseases. This showcases how different disciplines joints-hands to fulfill the unmet needs from the public. The perspective of research, education and medical coverage will be explored.

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In this session, we will continue to in-depth learning about the other two diagnostic methods on tongue diagnosis of inspection and pulse diagnosis of palpation that shown the uniqueness of Chinese Medicine in observing human physiology or pathological manifestations of changes. For the second part of this session, we will demonstrate symptoms of the classification to illustrate how they are classified by the eight principles and one case of common cold will be demonstrated for daily application.

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15 videos1 assignment

15 videosTotal 24 minutes

6.1.1 The Relationship between Tongue with Zang-fu Organs2 minutes
6.1.2 Room Setting for Tongue Examination1 minute
6.1.3 Normal vs Abnormal Tongue0 minutes
6.1.3.1 Abnormal Tongue Colours and Indications1 minute
x 6.1.3.2 Abnormal Tongue Coating and Indications1 minute
6.1.3.3 Abnormal Tongue Bodies and Indications1 minute
6.1.3.4 Abnormal Tongue Motilities and Indications1 minute
6.2 Intro2 minutes
6.2.1 Case4 minutes
6.3 Intro1 minute
6.3.1Eight-principle Syndrome Differentiation1 minute
6.3.1.1 Exterior Syndrome & Interior Syndrome2 minutes
6.3.1.2 Cold Syndrome & Heat Syndrome1 minute
6.3.1.3 Deficiency Syndrome & Excess Syndrome5 minutes
6.3.1.4 Yin Syndrome & Yang Syndrome2 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Session 6 Quiz30 minutes

After learning the fundamental theories and four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, in this session, we will move forward to introduce the treatment principles of traditional Chinese medicine to tackle the basic symptoms that illustrated by the Eight Principles.

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23 videos1 assignment

23 videosTotal 20 minutes

7.1 Intro2 minutes
7.1.1 Treating the Underlying syndrome1 minute
7.1.1.1 Approach 1: Treating heat syndrome with cooling method1 minute
7.1.1.2 Approach 2: Treating cold syndrome with warming method1 minute
7.1.1.3 Approach 3: Treating Deficiency syndrome with Tonifying Method1 minute
7.1.1.4 Approach 4: Treating Excess syndrome with Purging Method1 minute
7.1.2 Treating the Root and the Branch1 minute
7.1.2.1 Approach 1: Treating the Branch in acute conditions急則治其標1 minute
7.1.2.2 Approach 2: Treating the Root in chronic conditions緩則治其本1 minute
7.1.2.3 Approach 3: Treating both the Root and the Branch 標本同治1 minute
7.1.3 Reinforcing the Vital-qi and eliminating the Evil-qi1 minute
7.1.3.1 Approach 1: Reinforcing the Vital-qi扶正0 minutes
7.1.3.2 Approach 2: Eliminating the Evil-qi 袪邪0 minutes
7.1.3.3 Approach 3: Reinforcing the Vital-qi and eliminating the Evil-qi扶正兼袪邪1 minute
7.2 Intro1 minute
7.2.1 Diaphoresis Therapy 汗法1 minute
7.2.2 Emesis Therapy 吐法1 minute
7.2.3 Purgative therapy 下法1 minute
7.2.4 Harmonizing Therapy 和法1 minute
7.2.5 Warming Therapy 溫法1 minute
7.2.6 Clearing Therapy 清法1 minute
7.2.7 Tonifying Therapy 補法1 minute
7.2.8 Resolving Therapy 消法1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Session 7 Quiz30 minutes

This session is a brief introduction of Chinese Materia Medica and the properties: the Four Natures, Five Flavors, and the concept of Toxicity in the context of Materia Medica.

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10 videos1 assignment

10 videosTotal 17 minutes

8.1 Chinese Materia Medica2 minutes
8.2 Properties of Chinese Medicines1 minute
8.3 Four Natures3 minutes
8.4 Intro1 minute
8.4.1 Pungent Chinese Medicines1 minute
8.4.2 Sweet Chinese Medicines2 minutes
8.4.3 Sour Chinese Medicines1 minute
8.4.4 Bitter Chinese Medicines3 minutes
8.4.5 Salty Chinese Medicines2 minutes
8.5 Toxicity2 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Session 8 Quiz30 minutes

This session is about how the health preservation in Chinese medicine helps to conserve health, prevent diseases and prolong life span for better well being from the Chinese medicine perspective.

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23 videos1 assignment

23 videosTotal 34 minutes

9.1 Intro1 minute
9.1.1 Concept 1: Unity of Human and the Universe1 minute
9.1.1.1 According to seasons4 minutes
9.1.1.2 According to Geography Locations1 minute
9.1.1.3 According to Different Individuals2 minutes
9.1.2 Concept 2: Unity of physique and spirit1 minute
9.1.3 Concept 3: Holism1 minute
9.2.1 Introduction1 minute
9.2.2 Selecting food according to Four Natures and Five Flavors2 minutes
9.2.3 Functions of some common foods4 minutes
9.2.4 Dietary Therapy for some Common Diseases0 minutes
9.2.4.1 Common Cold4 minutes
9.2.4.2 Chronic Stomachache and Diarrhea3 minutes
9.3 Intro2 minutes
9.3.1 Section 11 minute
9.3.2 Section 21 minute
9.3.3 Section 31 minute
9.3.4 Section 41 minute
9.3.5 Section 51 minute
9.3.6 Section 61 minute
9.3.7 Section 71 minute
9.3.8 Section 81 minute
9.4 Summary1 minute

1 assignmentTotal 30 minutes

Session 9 Quiz30 minutes

After the previous nine sessions have given the basic understanding of Chinese medicine in everyday application, in this session, five healthcare professionals who are specialized in Chinese medicine and Integrative medicine, will share their experiences and insights of Chinese and integrative medicine in Greater China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.