Chinese Medicine : The Body

The purpose of this paper is to expound on Chinese culture as it relates to nursing practice. I chose the Chinese culture to better understand the culture that is rapidly growing around the Denver metropolitan area. Through research and thorough application, I will be able to put into practice Purnell’s Model for Cultural competence and “forge a greater understanding of what is similar and different among the various cultures that make up the healthcare team…Nurses who utilize transcultural theories are in an ideal position to demonstrate how the provision of culturally competent care will shape health care in the future” (DeNisco, Barker, 2016).

Many health care professionals think that if patients are just treated with respect, then cultural issues will be avoided. That statement is not the correct.

The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted J. Kaptchuk is a non-fiction book describing the philosophy of traditional Chinese medicine and how it compares to Western medicine. This book does not focus on a specific time period or regions where Chinese medicine is practiced. Rather, it centers on the logic behind Chinese medicine. After studying Chinese medicine in Macao, Ted Kaptchuk returned to America and realized that he could not abandon what he learned just because it was different from Western medicine. Chinese medicine is over two thousand years old and textbooks have dated back to the Han dynasty (202 B.C.E.-220 C.E). These texts will continue to adapt, just as traditions adapt over time. Chinese medicine is still

A body is just a body without a brain to command it and a brain can only do so much without a body to yield. It’s undeniable that the mind and body are completely dependent on the other to function, but where do they join together to form a unique individual. To what extent do the mind and body bridge together to form a unique individual? Is there even a bridge that connects them or are the mind and body separate entities who solely rely on each other to function, but that’s where all the shared boundaries that create a person end.

The Chinese culture is built around thousands of years of tradition. Understanding these Chinese beliefs and social influences may benefit you when attending to someone of this culture.

Armstrong begins his paper with a question for the reader of what it means to have a mind. It is well understood that man has the ability to perceive, to think, to feel, and so on, but what does it mean to perceive, to think, and to feel? The answer, he believes, lies in science. Seeing that science is constantly and rapidly gaining ground, he asserts that “...we can give a complete account of man in purely physico-chemical terms” (295?) Pointing out the fact that this view has been accepted by various scientists throughout time, he explains it is the most reliable way to approach the mind-body problem.

| |Construct medical language associated with the seven approaches to studying the human body. | | |

Diseases and their treatments changed and shaped the modern world. The Tang Dynasty of Ancient China had great value to the medicinal fields and led the way for medical technology and advancements that are used today by standardizing the supreme methods, procedures, and treatments during this time period; therefore, they made it less complicated for people to learn and teach how to practice medicine. Areas of medicine that were greatly improved and exceptionally recorded during the Tang Dynasty were symptomatology, etiology, surgery, orthopedics, and traumatology.

To begin, Meurlo-Ponty starts by discussing how the parts of our body relate to each other in a very particular way. We do not conceive of ourselves as a collection of closely spatially related organs but rather as a whole contributing to our body schema (PhP 100). Our body schema is a gradually developing psychological construct that helps us develop a summary of our experiences as a body including out movement as a whole and unifies us a being (PhP 100). The body schema that we develop plays into the spatiality of position and the spatiality of situation and how the body appears to us. Spatiality of position refers to the body within space, in this case the body is perceived of as part of the external objective world. Meurlo-Ponty says that this concept is consistent with idea of

TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, can be traced as far back as 1000 BC, where stone acupuncture needles were believed to be used. Texts from that period also talked of Yin and Yang and other concepts. The first written work on TCM is titled the Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic, Huangdi Newijing (Gascoigne 11). This book was written in 300 BC, but entries date back to the early 2700’s BC. The book is still used in universities of Chinese Medicine around the world and is often called the bible of TCM. Today, TCM is still thriving in China and all of Asia. In recent years, information on TCM has become available to people in the United States. The United States has several schools of TCM, and it is now much easier to buy the necessary

Edmond is passionate about Chinese medicine and dedicated to using this wonderful healing system in the treatment and prevention of illness and disease. He believes in a patient-centred approach and encourages active participation in formulating a therapeutic management plan to optimise your health according to the principles and methods of Chinese medicine. Treatment options include: acupuncture, herbal medicine, moxibustion, cupping, acupressure massage, TDP lamp therapy and buqi therapy. Dietary advice, self-massage, relaxation techniques and remedial exercises (qigong) may be prescribed as part of a lifestyle management program to consolidate the benefits of treatment.

Traditional Chinese Medicine has been used for years to treat epidemics and outbreaks (Hanson, 2010, p.232), therefore the SARS epidemic and smallpox are treatable with traditional Chinese Medicine. China has a history of managing epidemics and simply put, China is very capable of treating SARs and smallpox. Traditional Chinese medicine is essentially a religious and cultural medical system since it has been around for a plethora of years and has strong discernable religious pillars and ideology. Chinese medicine is religion and Chinese medicine is culture; Traditional Chinese medicine is intertwined with everyday life and there are several blurred lines when it comes to this system because of its strong integration into multiple aspects of one’s life. Now that the immeasurable impact of traditional Chinese medicine has been explained, what role did traditional Chinese medicine play in some of the more recent outbreaks, those being SARS and smallpox? The role of traditional Chinese medicine can be easily overlooked due to western media portrayal of the SARS outbreak (Hanson 2010), but in reality, traditional Chinese medicine was absolutely fundamental in handling the SARS outbreak and smallpox. The integration of Chinese medicine and Western medicine on the ground was absolutely vital in treating the SARS epidemic, traditional medical temples aided immensely, and some traditional Chinese medical physicians worked with top health agencies, such as WHO to treat the SARS

In Chinese philosophy, the symbol yin-yang represents the two complementary forces that make up all aspects and phenomena of life. It describes how opposite forces are actually interconnected and interdependent in the natural world. The origin of yin and yang came from the observation of nature and the environment. “Yin” referred to the shady side of a slope while “yang” referred to the sunny side. The concept of yin-yang lies at the origins of many branches of classical Chinese science and philosophy, as well as being a primary guideline of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and a central principle of different forms of Chinese martials arts and exercise, such as baguazhang, taijiquan (t’ai chi), and qigong (Chi Kung) and of I-Ching divination. The most common form of yin-yang symbol is ☯, i.e., in harmony, the two sides are depicted as the light and dark halves of a circle.

TCM, or Traditional Chinese Medicine, can be traced as far back as 1000 BC, where stone acupuncture needles were believed to be used. Texts from that period also talked of Yin and Yang and other concepts. The first written work on TCM is titled the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, Huangdi Newijing (Gascoigne 11). This book was written in 300 BC, but entries date back to the early 2700's BC. The book is still used in universities of Chinese Medicine around the world and is often called the bible of TCM. Today, TCM is still thriving in China and all of Asia. In recent years, information on TCM has become available to people in the United States. The United States has several schools of TCM, and it is now much easier to buy the necessary

The completion of the survey of a great chain of first order triangulation’s along the arc of the 30th meridian of east longitude, from South Africa to Egypt, is considered one of the most exceptional surveying feats to ever be executed in Africa and thus its history has interested geodetic surveyors throughout the world. This paper aims to expatiate on the importance of measuring meridian arcs, the need to establish a geodetic survey in a country or continent and subsequently will recount the sequence of events that led to the 75 year length completion of the African arc.