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BACKGROUND AND THEORY OF
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is an important
component procedure in
traditional Chinese medicine which
prevents and treats disease by
puncturing certain points in the
body with needles. Of marked
efficacy and requiring but simple
equipment, they have been widely
popular in china and elsewhere for
thousands of years.
Acupuncture
200 BC basic tenets of Chinese
medicine were recorded in Huang Di
Nei Jing (The Yellow Emperors
textbook of physical medicine
Man was seen as an integral part of
nature and in a state of intensive
interaction with his environment.
It was regarded as the expression of
inherent conformity with a natural
law (TAO)
Tao
5th century BC by Laotse in the Tao Te
King
Tao creates the One, the One
creates the Two, the Two generates
the Three, but the Three creates all
things
All things in nature develop within
the field of tension between Yin and
Yang Tao remains as the continuous,
creative force and the basis of all
dynamic creation and transformation
Yin and Yang
Yang is the sunny side of the hill,
while Yin symbolizes the shady side
Law of Unity of Opposites:
Inter-consuming-supporting Relation
Consuming implies losing or weakening
Supporting- implies gaining or
strengthening
Inter-transforming Relation
Once a certain limit is reached, a change
to the opposite direction is inevitable
The Vital Energy, Life Force: Qi
vital energy or life force is
omnipresent in nature and is
apparent in all life in the form of
change and movement.
Every life process, every organic
function is an expression of the action
and movement of the vital energy.
Qi accumulates in the organs and
flows in channels or meridians that
are called Jing and Luo in Chinese.
Forms of Qi
seen in various levels of density in the human body: