Principles of Chinese Medicine I - PFYZ097C

• Title: Principles of Chinese Medicine I
• Guaranteed by: Department of Physiotherapy (51-300400)
• Faculty: Faculty of Physical Education and Sport
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 3
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Extent per academic year: 28 [hours]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (0)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: deregister from the credit exam date if a requisite was not fulfilled; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: MUDr. David Pánek, Ph.D.
• Co-requisite : PFYZ038C
• Is pre-requisite for: PFYZ143C

Annotation

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basics of Chinese medicine's view on health and disease and the practical use of this knowledge in clinical practice. Obtaining a general overview of other alternative treatment methods.

Last update: Vomáčková Helena, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Literature

GIOVANNI, M. The foundations of Chinese medicine: a comprehensive text for acupuncturists and herbalists. Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, UK, 1989, 219-268.

Last update: Vomáčková Helena, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Requirements to the exam

English

Credit Requirements:

• work out seminar paper on a given topic

Last update: Vomáčková Helena, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (02.01.2021)

Czech

Credit Requirements:

• work out seminar paper on a given topic

Last update: Vomáčková Helena, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)

Syllabus

1. Theory of yin, yang and five elements

2. Methods of treatment of traditional Chinese medicine

3. External and internal causes of the disease from the perspective of Chinese medicine

4. Introduction to Chinese organ syndromology

5. Diagnostics by querying, diagnostics by language and pulse - basics

6. Chi and blood syndromes

7. Lung and colon syndromes

8. Spleen and stomach syndromes

9. Liver and gall bladder syndromes

10. Syndromes of heart and small intestine

11. Syndromes of kidneys and bladder

12. Acupuncture and tendomuscular pathways - their practical use in physiotherapy

13. Basics of Chinese phytotherapy

14. Basics of auriculotherapy and other microsystems of the body

Last update: Vomáčková Helena, PhDr. Mgr., Ph.D. (25.10.2019)