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.
Everyday Chinese Medicine 2
Instructors: Yung Tat To
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There are 6 modules in this course
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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.
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15 videos1 assignment
After learning the fundamental theories and four diagnostic methods of traditional Chinese medicine, in this session, we will move forward to introduce the treatment principles of traditional Chinese medicine to tackle the basic symptoms that illustrated by the Eight Principles.
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23 videos1 assignment
This session is a brief introduction of Chinese Materia Medica and the properties: the Four Natures, Five Flavors, and the concept of Toxicity in the context of Materia Medica.
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10 videos1 assignment
This session is about how the health preservation in Chinese medicine helps to conserve health, prevent diseases and prolong life span for better well being from the Chinese medicine perspective.
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23 videos1 assignment
After the previous nine sessions have given the basic understanding of Chinese medicine in everyday application, in this session, five healthcare professionals who are specialized in Chinese medicine and Integrative medicine, will share their experiences and insights of Chinese and integrative medicine in Greater China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
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Reviewed on Aug 25, 2024
The course introduced the concepts in Chinese medicine in short, very clearly explained videos, very easy to digest.
Reviewed on Aug 20, 2023
A comprehensive foundation for people who are would like to know more about Chinese Medicine !
Reviewed on Jul 24, 2020
A very interesting course indeed! Thank you all the instructors for clear explanations!
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