Speech for Chinese Medicine

frequent Purpose To inform. Specific Purpose To inform my audience of an aspect of Chinese culture, which is is customs dutyal Chinese treat. Thesis Traditional Chinese medicine is shew in soundly all countries today, which I believe would be the sequel of intercultural communication. INTRODUCTION I. Hello For my presentation, I am going to talk rough a certain aspect of Chinese culture, which is conventional Chinese medicine. A. TCM, for short, is a use still utilize in modern China and just about of the United States. B. There are both types of TCM treatments parkly use today. study core group for complementary and pick Medicine, 2009) 1. Herbs 2. A cupuncture C. According to the National centre of attention for complementary color and Alternative Medicine (2009), herbs and acupuncture are the closely common however, another(prenominal) practices include 1. moxibustion 2. cupping 3. Chinese massage 4. mind-body therapy 5. and dietary therapy D. For this presenta tion, I will mainly talk about herbs and acupuncture, since it is the most commonly employ forms of TCM. II. Herbs and Accupuncture. A. Both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine keep up been used and studied for a wide range of conditions. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2009) 1. Acupuncture has been used for conditions such as a. back unhinge b. chemotherapy-included nausea c. depression d. osteoarthritis 2. Chinese herbal medicine has been used for conditions such as a. Cancer b. Heart disease c. Diabetes d. HIV/ assist III. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2009), TCM is considered a form of alternative medicine. A. Alternative medicine is any healing practice that isnt conventional medicine.B. Alternative medicine may be based on historical or cultural traditions, rather than on scientific evidence. (Hesketh &038 Zhu, 1997) C. Alternative medicine varies from country to country. (Hesketh &038 Zhu, 1997 ) I know that culture, especially Chinese culture may differ from t protest to t protest in a region as large as China. The main aspects of Chinese culture include its literature, music, cuisine, warlike arts, etc. , today I am only going to blab to you about one aspect which is our alternative medicine, but their very own medicine. ) BODY I. China is the only country in the world where horse opera medicine and traditional medicine are . . . practiced . . . alongside each other at every level of the wellnesscare system. (Hesketh &038 Zhu, 1997) A. 40% of all health care delivered in China is Traditional Chinese Medicine. (Hesketh &038 Zhu, 1997) II. TCM practitioners use a variety of therapies in an effort to promote health and treat disease. The most commonly used are Chinese herbal medicine and acupuncture. (National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2009) A. Chinese herbal medicine 1.The Chinese materia medica (a pharmacological reference books used by TCM pra ctitioners) contains hundreds of medicinal substances- primarily plants, but withal some minerals and animal products- classified by their perceived action in the body. 2. Different parts of plants such as the leaves, roots, stems, flowers, and seeds are used. 3. Usually, herbs are have in formulas and given as teas, capsules, tinctures, or powders. B. Acupuncture 1. By touch limited points on the body, most often by inserting thin admixture needles through the skin, practitioners seek to remove blockages in the flow of qi. . moxibustion (burning moxa- a retinal cone or stick of dried herb, usually mugwort- on or near the skin, sometimes in conjunction with acupuncture) 3. cupping (appyling a heated cup to the skin to create a slight suction) 4. mind-body therapy (qi gong and tai chi) III. In spite of the advent of Western practices, the Chinese have never solely ceased to employ their own art of healing, mainly because it continued to fit into their specific philosophy of li fe, but also because it appears that in frequent cases it was good medicine (Risse, 1997, p. 7). A. Chinese traditional medicine, the Ayurvedic medicine of India, Tibetan medicine, and other easterly medical checkup systems evolved, for the most part, independently of Western scientific medicine. B. Until the twentieth century the Eastern and Western medical systems were each considered particularly efficacious ,which means, successful in producing a desired or intended result effective. by their own practitioners who are people actively engaged in a discipline, or profession, esp. medicine (Eisenberg, 1985, p. 2) IV. In an article from the questioning Inquirer, Joe Nickell (2012) explains his experience, where he learned about Chinese healing techniques. A. Nickell (2012) explains the origins of traditional Chinese medicine. B. Nickell (2012) learned that TCM is based on the atomic number 23 elements. V. Khalsa (2011) wrote an article titled ancient Chinese Secrets, which exp lains the five herbs used in traditional Chinese medicine. A. Ginseng B. Dong quai C. Schisandra D. Ho shou wu E. Astragalus VI.According to a newspaper article titled Chinese herbs that hurt, not heal, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is suffering from modern Chinas safety troubles and quality control. A. For centuries, traders bringing their Chinese herbs into this town made sure their first stop was the Medicine magnate Temple. They prayed to the Han Dynasty medical expert Pei Tong, whom the temple was built to honour, asking for their roots, fungus and berries to have the authorization to cure the worlds ills. The practice has long ceased, especially after the Chinese communistic Party came to power in 1949.VII. Chinese clamor for herbs to fight respiratory virus- U. N. Doctors inspect Beijing hospital A. Beijing The World Health formation has no evidence to suggest that traditional Chinese medicine faecal matter prevent the spread of SARS, but the people in line at Ton g Ren Tang Pharmacy dont care. Theres a two-hour wait to buy herbs. Ever since the frequent Beijing Evening invigorateds newspaper ran a recipe Tuesday concocted by two experts in traditional Chinese medicine, thousands of people have move to pharmacies to buy the supposedly immunity-boosting elixir toConclusion I. TCM follows the belief that ancient Chinese followed many years ago, which is the same as the reasoning behind Chinese Universalism. Their reasoning include 1. the Tao 2. the Yin and the Yang 3. and finally, the 5 elements, which are water, fire, wood, metal and earth. A. Chinese traditional thinking conceives of man as composed of the same elements as the universe. II. The origins of Chinas medical history are usually found in legends that come from the tradition of health care over several thousand years. A. nd where coeval communities promises further insights into the nature of the human response to illness. B. Furthermore, medical historians and medical anthropol ogists have begun to focus their research on China, where a wealth of written sources permits III. References Eisenberg, D. (1985). Encouners with qi. New York, NY W. W. Norton &038 Company. Hesketh, T. , &038 Zhu, W. X. (1997). Health in China. traditional Chinese medicine One country, two systems. British Medical Journal 315(7100), 115-117. Abstract retrieved April 5, 2012 from http//www. cbi. nlm. nih. gov/pmc/articles National Center for Complementary and Alternatice Medicine. (2009). Traditional Chinese Medicine. Retrieved April 5, 2012 from http//nccam. nih. gov Nickell, J. (2012). Traditional Chinese medicine Views east and west. Skeptical Inquirer, 36(2), 18-20. 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