| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立陽明大學 === 傳統醫藥研究所 === 100 === Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an ancient medical system, which originated in China around 2,000 or 3,000 years ago, based on the belief that illness is caused by disruptions and imbalances in the flow of the body’s vital energy or Qi (氣). This is the study of human physiology-pathology, also the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of human diseases. It views the human body as an integrated whole that takes a deep understanding of the laws and patterns of the nature and applies them to the human body.
This study aims to provide to domestic and international students and Health Care Workers a full trilingual learning handbook about Traditional Chinese, which allows TCM to be applied in other countries or to be used for future training in Taiwan.
This study used literature information from National Yang Ming University Library, Government agencies and internet sources using Pub-Med, Google and google scholar to search terms such as ‘‘Chinese Medicine” and “International students”, “Chinese Medicine Literature”. Data from websites of medical schools about Chinese medicine, Taipei City Hospital, professors and TCM doctors experience, lab meeting, workshops, Symposiums and conferences about TCM also were gathered.
The results obtained a trilingual handbook of introduction on traditional Chinese medicine is created for international students and health care workers, written in English, Spanish and Chinese languages with eight chapters and three appendixes.
Chapter one, two, three and four describe about the basic concepts of traditional Chinese medicine such as: general introduction of traditional Chinese medicine, the foundational theories, causes of diseases and diagnosis and patterns. Chapter five provides information about treatment, and chapter six about herbal medicine which includes Chinese crude drugs. Acupuncture and moxibustion is described in chapter seven. Chapter eight is a full content of traditional Chinese medicine in Taiwan.
In appendices, I try to summarize in a useful way the commonly used herbs, prescriptions and acupuncture points. This book has almost 120 pages in the English version.
Traditional Chinese medicine has been found to be very useful for treating many diseases. It now has a much more promising future than before. Medical literature is found in all large libraries throughout Taiwan and mainland China, but until now there is not a full trilingual manual written in English, Spanish and Chinese for training international students.
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