About this Course

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This course, Everyday Chinese Medicine II offered by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, aims to show to the public, as well as the healthcare professionals about the basic principles of Chinese medicine. Our primary goal is to empower healthcare choices by promoting awareness and practical application on Chinese medicine diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, and to facilitate interprofessional education between Chinese and conventional clinicians.
Learners will develop skills in applying theories of Chinese medicine for understanding health and illnesses. We will discuss the treatment principles of Chinese Medicine and the corresponding herbs for application. This will then be followed by the application of diets and exercise. Finally, we would expand the horizons of how integrative medicine are practiced in Chinese populations such as China, Taiwan and Hong Kong for specific diseases. This showcases how different disciplines joints-hands to fulfill the unmet needs from the public. The perspective of research, education and medical coverage will be explored.

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Flexible deadlines

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Beginner Level

Approx. 4 hours to complete

English

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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course

Week

1

Week 1

3 minutes to complete

Course Promotional Video

3 minutes to complete

1 video (Total 3 min)

Week

2

Week 2

1 hour to complete

Session 6 Basics of Chinese Medicine Diagnostics (II)

In this session, we will continue to in-depth learning about the other two diagnostic methods on tongue diagnosis of inspection and pulse diagnosis of palpation that shown the uniqueness of Chinese Medicine in observing human physiology or pathological manifestations of changes. For the second part of this session, we will demonstrate symptoms of the classification to illustrate how they are classified by the eight principles and one case of common cold will be demonstrated for daily application.

1 hour to complete

15 videos (Total 24 min)

15 videos

6.1.1 The Relationship between Tongue with Zang-fu Organs2m

6.1.2 Room Setting for Tongue Examination46s

6.1.3 Normal vs Abnormal Tongue23s

6.1.3.1 Abnormal Tongue Colours and Indications42s

x 6.1.3.2 Abnormal Tongue Coating and Indications1m

6.1.3.3 Abnormal Tongue Bodies and Indications41s

6.1.3.4 Abnormal Tongue Motilities and Indications1m

6.2 Intro1m

6.2.1 Case4m

6.3 Intro33s

6.3.1Eight-principle Syndrome Differentiation1m

6.3.1.1 Exterior Syndrome & Interior Syndrome2m

6.3.1.2 Cold Syndrome & Heat Syndrome48s

6.3.1.3 Deficiency Syndrome & Excess Syndrome5m

6.3.1.4 Yin Syndrome & Yang Syndrome1m

1 practice exercise

Session 6 Quiz30m

Week

3

Week 3

1 hour to complete

Session 7 Treatment Principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine

1 hour to complete

23 videos (Total 20 min)

23 videos

7.1 Intro1m

7.1.1 Treating the Underlying syndrome35s

7.1.1.1 Approach 1: Treating heat syndrome with cooling method44s

7.1.1.2 Approach 2: Treating cold syndrome with warming method49s

7.1.1.3 Approach 3: Treating Deficiency syndrome with Tonifying Method1m

7.1.1.4 Approach 4: Treating Excess syndrome with Purging Method41s

7.1.2 Treating the Root and the Branch1m

7.1.2.1 Approach 1: Treating the Branch in acute conditions急則治其標44s

7.1.2.2 Approach 2: Treating the Root in chronic conditions緩則治其本48s

7.1.2.3 Approach 3: Treating both the Root and the Branch 標本同治1m

7.1.3 Reinforcing the Vital-qi and eliminating the Evil-qi51s

7.1.3.1 Approach 1: Reinforcing the Vital-qi扶正28s

7.1.3.2 Approach 2: Eliminating the Evil-qi 袪邪25s

7.1.3.3 Approach 3: Reinforcing the Vital-qi and eliminating the Evil-qi扶正兼袪邪42s

7.2 Intro39s

7.2.1 Diaphoresis Therapy 汗法1m

7.2.2 Emesis Therapy 吐法54s

7.2.3 Purgative therapy 下法1m

7.2.4 Harmonizing Therapy 和法59s

7.2.5 Warming Therapy 溫法56s

7.2.6 Clearing Therapy 清法42s

7.2.7 Tonifying Therapy 補法57s

7.2.8 Resolving Therapy 消法1m

1 practice exercise

Session 7 Quiz30m

Week

4

Week 4

1 hour to complete

Session 8 Introduction of Chinese Materia Medica

1 hour to complete

10 videos (Total 17 min)

Reviews

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TOP REVIEWS FROM EVERYDAY CHINESE MEDICINE 2

by JASep 21, 2022

Excellent. The amount of knowledge included in this short course and the first course is outstanding. I plan to continue to learn about TCM.

by MBMar 22, 2021

A good foundation, to build upon on my quest to practice TCM

by MCJul 24, 2020

A very interesting course indeed! Thank you all the instructors for clear explanations!

by LGDec 29, 2022

Very good introduction to TCM and the workings and interactions of our body organs.

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