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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) originated over 2,500 years ago under Shen Nong and focuses on balance between yin and yang. Practitioners use four diagnostic methods - inspection, auscultation/olfaction, inquiry, and palpation - to understand a patient's energy imbalance and treat it through diet, herbs, acupuncture, massage, and other methods to promote health. Acupuncture is one of the most researched TCM practices for treating conditions like pain and nausea.

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CAT Discussion Questions Chapter 4

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) originated over 2,500 years ago under Shen Nong and focuses on balance between yin and yang. Practitioners use four diagnostic methods - inspection, auscultation/olfaction, inquiry, and palpation - to understand a patient's energy imbalance and treat it through diet, herbs, acupuncture, massage, and other methods to promote health. Acupuncture is one of the most researched TCM practices for treating conditions like pain and nausea.

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Chapter 4: Traditional Chinese Medicine

1. Who is considered the founder of TCM? How long ago?


a. Shen Nong; 2,500 years
2. TCM philosophy stresses:
a. Harmony and balance through yin and yang
3. In 2013, 53 schools of acupuncture. (2625 hours/146 credits required plus 1330 hours
of clinical.)
4. Practitioners who already have a a e degree in acupuncture, and want a
certificate in herbs, must complete 146 more hours, and 1330 hours of clinicals.
5. 43 states require passing a national board exam as a requirement of licensure.
6. The focus of TCM is on the patient, rather than the disease. Goal to promote health
and improve quality of life.
7. Qi (chee) is translated as energy.
8. Obstructed qi flow in the body can cause illness.
9. What treatments help with qi?
a. Meditation, exercise, and acupuncture
10. What is yin and yang? What happens when there is an imbalance?
a. Yin- general category for passivity and is like water, cold and heavy.
b. Yang- activity and aggressiveness, associated with fire and heating.
11. What symptoms are associated with yin?
a. coldness, paleness, low blood pressure and chronic conditions
12. What symptoms are associated with yang?
a. Redness in the face, fever, high blood pressure and acute conditions
13. What are the five elements? Five phase theory?
a. Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood
b. 5 phases: There are similarities between natural elements and the body
14. Each element is related to a pair of internal organs. What are these?
a. Fire: Blood, Hormones, Food
b. Earth: Spleen, Pancreas and Stomach
c. Metal: Lungs and Large Intestine
d. Water: Kidneys and Urinary Bladder
e. Wood: Liver and Gallbladder
15. What do the five seasons/five directions have to do with disease?
a. It is believed that if 1 of the 5 are overbearing then the others will be debilitated
b. Diagnosis and treatment of illnesses are dependent on the understanding of these 5
16. What are the three treasures?
a. Jing: basic essence
b. Qi: energy or life force
c. Shen: spirit and mind
17. In TCM, symptoms are caused by imbalance of yin and yang in the body, and illness
can develop if the balance is disrupted for any length of time. Health is maintained by
recognizing the imbalance before it becomes a disease.
18. The TCM practitioner has four diagnostic methods. They are?
a. Inspection, Auscultation and olfaction, inquire, palpation

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19. What is a spirit inspection? Tongue diagnosis?
a. Spirit: An assessment of the person's overall appearance, especially the eyes, the
complexion the quality of voice
b. Tongue: Inspection of the tongue because it is ability to reveal how different areas
of the body are ki g
20. What might the practitioner be listening for or smelling?
a. Quality of speech, breath sounds and odor, body, excrete
21. What factors might a practitioner inquire about?
a. Health, social, emotional, spiritual, sensation, hearing, thirst, sleep, digestion,
emotions, sexual drive and energy level
22. What is a pulse diagnosis?
a. Reading pulses can provide key information about the rest of the body and they
can feel the quality of the qi and blood.
23. 29 pulse qualities are described according to size, rate, depth, force and volumes.
Examples are surging, scattering, vacuous, slippery, string like and flat
24. What is the goal of treatment? How is this done?
a. Establishing a balance of energy in the person
b. Diet, herbs, massage, acupuncture, qigong and gua sha
25. The simplest and most accessible treatment in TCM is diet.
26. The thermal nature of food is described by the way a person feels after eating the
food.
27. How many different fruits and vegetables a day are needed to avoid a cold or hot
imbalance?
a. Seven
28. What are some examples of cooling food? Hot foods? Neutral foods?
a. Neutral: Beef, rabbit, yam, carrot, lemon, apple
b. Hot: Salmon, lamb, sweet potato
c. Cooling: Watermelon and asparagus
29. What are the six tastes? What body system is affected by these tastes?
a. Sweet:
b. Salty:
c. Sour:
d. Pungent:
e. Bitter:
f. Astringent:
30. If you have excess yin, you may be feeling sluggish, laid back, calm, slightly
overweight, emotionally sensitive.
31. If you have excess yang you may be feeling tense, loud, hyperactive and aggressive.
32. The second kind of treatment in TCM is herbs.
33. Herbs may be taken in what form?
a. Pills, paste, tea and inures
34. Herbs are used in the following ways and can be used to treat
a. Pain, cholesterol, colds and flu, i c ea i g e e g
35. What herb is banned in many countries because it is used in producing
methamphetamines?
a. Ma Huang

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36. The third kind of treatment in TCM is massage
37. Massage increases circulation and the movement of the lymph
38. Does massage usually reduce stress and tension? Yes
39. The fourth treatment in TCM is acupuncture
40. What is the primary goal of acupuncture?
a. The primary goal is the manipulation of energy flow throughout the body
41. What conditions does acupuncture treat?
a. Musculoskeletal problems (back pain, neck pain, and others), nausea, migraine
headache, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and infertility
42. Contraindications for acupuncture are:
a. Childhood, Pregnancy, Hemophilia, Acute cardiac disorders
43. What pregnancy complication does moxibustion treat?
a. Breech presentation through changing the changing of the movement of qi
44. What is cupping? What does it do?
a. Application of suction cups on the skin.
b. It breaks up the toxins
45. What is Qigong (chee-gong)?
a. The art and science of using breath, movement, self-massage, and medication to
cleanse, strengthen and circulate vital life energy
46. What is Gua Sha (gwaw saw)? What conditions does it treat?
a. Hypertension and cold
b. The smearing of oil on the skin and then rubbing it with a flat tool usually jade,
spoon or round tool to being out the impurities in the body
47. What is Feng Shui (fung shway)?
a. Arranging the environment to live in harmony with one's surroundings
48. What do the colors mean in Feng shui?
a. Red: Stimulating, dominant, warmth, and prosperity
b. Orange: Communication
c. Yellow: intellect, decisiveness and optimism
d. Green: growth, fertility and harmony
e. Blue: peaceful and soothing
f. Purple: Dignified
g. Brown: Safe
h. Pink: Happiness and Romance
i. White: New beginning and purity
j. Black: Mystery and independent
49. Which treatment is the most researched and documented TCM practice?
a. Acupuncture
50. What website can you go to look at the list of research studies available in the US?
a. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the National
Institute of Health
51. What is karma?
a. One's positive actions produced happiness and one's negative actions produce
suffering

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52. In Tibetan medicine, disease results from two causes. They are:
a. Something bought from past-life Karma
b. Involves factors form this life, including seasons, habits, and negative spirits
53. What is the most revered healing method in Tibetan medicine?
a. Compassion
54. All preparation of medicines begins with prayer.
55. What treatment was developed in Korea in 1971?
a. Hand and finger acupuncture
56. What are some common principles of both nursing and TCM?
a. Care and Compassion
57. What are some examples of self-care for nurses?
a. Mental and spiritual health
58. What does the Christian worldview say about TCM?
a. Nurture your spiritual health

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