Chinese Medicine

The Chinese medicine consists of a theory explaining the operation of the human being in good health, under various angles: Physiology, Psychology, Anatomy, etc It explains also the causes of the diseases and the mechanisms biological and psychic which are the consequences. In opposition to the Western Médecine, Chinese medicine aims at as a whole including/understanding each being, as well healthy as sick, as well visible symptoms as invisible, by a management of the balance of energy interns ( Tchi or IQ ) to be it in its globality. One thus speaks especially to be it before of speaking about his disease.

It is a very old medicine, whose development goes back to approximately 3000 years before Jesus-Christ. In the first treaty of Chinese medicine known (the Huangdi Nei Jing ), one finds for example the description of five bodies (named Wu Zang ) and of the six entrails (named Liu Fu ) accompanied by diagrams.

Elements of the therapy

Chinese medicine is pressed in practice on paramount therapeutic elements:

the Pharmacopeia including/understanding the Phytotherapy (plants), minerals even human animal substances (e.g. the Placenta). Chinese phytotherapy contains thousands of plants, decoctions, powders etc They have an important action in Chinese medicine. Lastly, the pharmacopeia often joined the Chinese Cuisine with the use of savors.
the Acupuncture and the Moxibustion (combustion of a grass helping to make circulate vital energy, IQ)
the Dietetic
the Massage traditional Chinese, Tui Na/Year Mo.
IQ Gong, or Chinese Gymnastics, which allows by a regular practice, to balance the IQ, therefore to prevent the diseases. Accompanied by the other therapeutic elements, it helps with the care of the patient.

Of share its strong overlap in the Chinese culture, one finds in medicine the whole of the concepts of its culture of origin: the Yin and the Yáng (symbols of the bipolarity of the things), the IQ (energy to be it).

One finds also Wu Xing (five movements): these are five qualities which make it possible to study the characteristics of any symptom, like their interactions. These five movements are wood, fire, the ground, metal and water. Speaking Médicalement, each one of them is in relation to bodies of the seasons, energies, bodies workshop (Yin), bodies treasure (Yáng), directions and feelings.

To include/understand what are these five movements (or five elements), it is initially necessary to be initiated with the concept of Yin and Yáng. Note that there are several ways of interpreting these movements according to the point of view which one adopts. The interaction of Yin and Yáng is the precondition to the expression (or the not-expression) of the IQ, and it is this IQ which will organize in a particular way, and which one will be able to consider in five movements.

The Bois movement is often mentioned in first in the traditional texts. It represents the growth of Yáng within Yin. As the plant which emerges from the ground and pushes towards the sky, Wood is the movement of the externalization. It is spring, where all the external life takes again its activities and the sheets start again to push. In the life of a man, the period of Wood is the period of its growth.

The Feu movement represents the apogee of Yáng, as the flame which illuminates and heats. It is the movement of abundance, where any thing reached potential full sound. It is the summer when the sun leads and the trees bear their fruits. In the life of a man, the period corresponding to Fire is in the surroundings of its twenty-five years, whereas the growth is finished and that it is to the maximum of his physical force.

The movement Ground is often difficult to seize with the first accesses. It is not false to associate it at the end of the summer, but it represents in fact the off season: the passage of a movement with another, the relational axis which supports the transitions. The example is not perfect, but it is as the organic matter in which the tree pushes, and which nourishes it in nutrient. The tree will always require to have its roots in the ground, whether it is the summer or the winter.

The movement Métal, much more Yin by its nature that the movements Wood and Fire, represents interiorization, as the tree which loses its sheets and concentrates on essence, that is to say its trunk. Metal could be represented by the period of engrangement of harvests, where one stores the fruits of the summer for the less active period which is come from there. In the life of a man, the Métal period corresponds to the gradual decline and naturalness which is old age. Moreover, much of men and women (Re) discover spirituality (in the broad sense) during this period of their life, which constitutes a return to essence and is in harmony with the Métal movement.

The Eau movement symbolizes the apogee of Yin, or the moment when Yáng is with its minimum. Obviously, if one continues to take the life of a man like example, it is the moment (or the period) of its death. This example would be valid only if it is considered that this man will reappear in a way or of another, because one speaks well here about a cycle. A more eloquent example would be perhaps the winter, where the life continues, but in a more invisible form, while waiting for the return of spring.

Acupuncture in occident

Acupuncture is used today in certain French hospitals. It is a technique which proved reliable since many years.

Several countries of the European Union and North America gave a place in their system of care to acupuncture: Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany through the 'Heilpraktiker S which are dealt with by health system etc In France the people resulting from formations directly related to the Chinese universities without bond with the French universities can have problems with the Ordre of the doctors. Acupuncture having releasing effects, it is used mainly to fight against certain problems involved in the stress, the pain or against certain pathologies with dominant Psychosomatique.

See too

Internal bonds

History of traditional Chinese medicine
Acupuncture
Medicine traditional Tibetan
IQ gong
Herbologie Chinese

External bonds

IQ Gong “IQ Gong and relaxation activates” in Paris.
Sangha 22 Groupe study of Buddhism, taoism, IQ gong and for the creation of an associative data base.
Ends and techniques in Qigong and Chinese medicine
an introduction advanced to the concepts of traditional Chinese medicine.

Cours worked out by teachers of the teachers of the College of Rosemont, only school of acupuncture recognized by the minister of education of Quebec.

Acupuncture - needles and men, an article of Pseudo-medecines.org (presentation from a skeptic point of view)
acupuncture, the qigong, and “Chinese Medicine”, Association of the allergists and immunologists of Quebec (AAIQ)

Documents in remote loading:

Boards of the 12 meridian lines, the Shu points and points Driven, the circadian clock, etc (downloadable documents with format pdf, under Creative license Commons

Sources

MACIOCIA, Foundations off chinese medicine 2nd edition , Churchill Livingstone 2005
MARRIED, Precise of Chinese medicine , Dangles 1997
BENSKY, O' CONNOR, Acupuncture, has understanding text , Eastland Close 1984
OTTINO, Dictionnaire of Chinese medicine , Larousse 2001

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