Speech for Chinese Medicine

General Purpose To say. Specific Purpose To inform my audience of an aspect of Chinese culture, which is is tralatitious Chinese treat. Thesis conventional Chinese medicine is fix in nearly all countries today, which I believe would be the result of intercultural communication. INTRODUCTION I. Hello For my presentation, I am going to talk closely a certain aspect of Chinese culture, which is traditional Chinese medicine. A. TCM, for short, is a practice still used in modern China and most of the United States. B. There be ii types of TCM treatments commonly used today. National Center for antonymous and Alternative Medicine, 2009) 1. Herbs 2. stylostixis C. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2009), herbs and acupuncture are the most common however, other practices include 1. moxibustion 2. shape 3. Chinese massage 4. mind-body therapy 5. and dietary therapy D. For this presentation, I will generally talk about herbs and acupunctu re, since it is the most commonly used forms of TCM. II. Herbs and Accupuncture. A. Both acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine have been used and studied for a wide barf of conditions. National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2009) 1. Acupuncture has been used for conditions such as a. back pain b. chemotherapy-included nausea c. depression d. osteoarthritis 2. Chinese herbal medicine has been used for conditions such as a. Cancer b. pith disease c. Diabetes d. HIV/AIDS III. According to the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2009), TCM is considered a form of option medicine. A. Alternative medicine is any healing practice that isnt conventional medicine.B. Alternative medicine may be based on historical or cultural traditions, earlier than on scientific present. (Hesketh & Zhu, 1997) C. Alternative medicine varies from boorish to country. (Hesketh & Zhu, 1997) I know that culture, specially Chinese culture may differ from to wn to town in a region as large as China. The main aspects of Chinese culture include its literature, music, cuisine, martial arts, etc. , today I am only going to speak 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 Western medicine and traditional medicine are . . . practiced . . . alongside each other at every level of the health care system. (Hesketh & Zhu, 1997) A. 40% of all health care delivered in China is conventional Chinese Medicine. (Hesketh & Zhu, 1997) II. TCM practitioners use a variety of therapies in an effort to publicize 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 practitioners) contains hundreds of healthful substances- primarily plants, but also so me 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 combined in formulas and given as teas, capsules, tinctures, or powders. B. Acupuncture 1. By stimulating specific points on the body, most frequently by inserting thin metal needles through the skin, practitioners seek to remove blockages in the flow of qi. . moxibustion (burning moxa- a cone or stick of dried herb, commonly mugwort- on or near the skin, sometimes in conjunction with acupuncture) 3. cupping (appyling a heated cup to the skin to create a little(a) suction) 4. mind-body therapy (qi gong and tai chi) III. In spite of the advent of Western practices, the Chinese have never completely ceased to employ their own art of healing, mainly because it continued to fit into their specific philosophy of life, but also because it appears that in frequent cases it was good medicine (R isse, 1997, p. 7). A. Chinese traditional medicine, the Ayurvedic medicine of India, Tibetan medicine, and other Eastern medical 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 oddly efficacious ,which means, successful in producing a desired or intend result effective. by their own practitioners who are race actively tenanted in a discipline, or profession, esp. medicine (Eisenberg, 1985, p. 2) IV. In an article from the Skeptical Inquirer, Joe Nickell (2012) explains his experience, where he knowledgeable about Chinese healing techniques. A. Nickell (2012) explains the origins of traditional Chinese medicine. B. Nickell (2012) learned that TCM is based on the five elements. V. Khalsa (2011) wrote an article titled Ancient Chinese Secrets, which explains 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 gum elastic troubles and quality control. A. For centuries, traders bringing their Chinese herbs into this town made sure their original stop was the Medicine King Temple. They prayed to the Han Dynasty medical expert Pei Tong, whom the temple was strengthened to honour, asking for their roots, fungus and berries to have the potency to cure the worlds ills. The practice has long ceased, peculiarly after the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949.VII. Chinese clamor for herbs to fight respiratory virus- U. N. Doctors inspect capital of Red China hospital A. Beijing The World Health Organization has no evidence to suggest that traditional Chinese medicine can prevent the spread of SARS, but the people in line at Tong Ren Tang Pharmacy dont care. Theres a two-hour sojourn to buy herbs. Ever since the popula r Beijing Evening News newspaper ran a recipe Tuesday concocted by two experts in traditional Chinese medicine, thousands of people have rushed to pharmacies to buy the supposedly immunity-boosting elixir to end point 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 cool 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 some(prenominal) thousand years. A. nd where contemporary communities promises further insights into the nature of the human repartee to illness. B. Furthermore, medical historians and medical anthropologists 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 & Company. Hesketh, T. , & Zhu, W. X. (1997). Health in China. traditional Chinese medicine One country, two systems. British Medical Journal 315(7100), 115-117. synopsis 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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