Traditional Chinese Medicine Nursing Laboratory
Laboratory equipment is listed below:
1. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) tables
2. Electro-acupuncture kits
3. Electric cupping sets
4. Infrared lamps
5. Microwave spectrometers
Course description:
The courses include basic TCM theories, etiology, diagnostics of TCM, therapeutics of TCM, and TCM regimen.
Teaching objectives
Impart basic TCM theories and TCM treatments to students.
Lecture content:
1. Philosophical basis of TCM theories
2. The Yin and Yang and Five Elements theory
3. The visceral state theory
4. Qi, blood, and body fluid
5. The TCM meridian system
6. Disease causes, disease onsets, and pathogenesis
7. Introduction to bodily constitution
8. Four diagnostic methods
9. Regular methods of TCM syndrome differentiation
10. Principles of regimen, prevention, and treatment