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Course Title:
OM 300
History of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
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Units/ Hours: 3/ 30
Pre-requisite/ PRC: None
Learning Methods: Text, Lecturing, overhead, class discussion, reading, memorization, hands on
demonstration and visual Identification.
Description:
This course provides student with the origin of Acupuncture and Moxibustion and
different traditions of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the history of
Chinese Medicine. It also covers the history of the development setting in
acupuncture and moxibustion and the academic accomplishments of ancient
acupuncture and moxibustion in the U.S. and China. The history of the
professional trends in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in other nations than
U.S. and China will be discussed.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to describe the origin of the Acupuncture and some other primitive
modalities based on the historical records.
2. Students will learn how ancient Acupuncture and Moxibustion got the theoretical basis
throughout the history of B.C. period. It includes the development of new medical
instruments as iron age came up.
3. Students will become acquainted with ‘Huangdi’s Internal Classic’ which is the most
important medical classic in the history of the Oriental Medicine. They will look the
contents and composition of the book.
4. Students will learn how theories of pathology, diagnosis, formula prescription, and
modalities has been changed throughout the history and what was the major trend in each
period of time. The interrelationship between certain period of time and specific trends
prevailed in the period of time.
5. Students will know why , in 19th century, traditional Chinese Medicine has been declined
as Western Medicine introduced in China.
6. Students will be able to describe new trends of the Oriental Medicine throughout the
world. It includes wide acceptance of the Oriental Medicine as an alternative and
supplemental measure.
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Required Text(s):
Title: The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Author: Maciocia, G.
Edition: (1989)
Title: A Comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists
(최신침구학 translated into Korean)
Author: New York: Churchill Livingstone. [Abbreviation: FCM]
Edition:
Title: Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion
(중국침구학 translated into Korean)
Author: Feijing: Foreign Languages Press[abbreviation; CAM]
Edition:
Course requirements: No requirement needed
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Attendance
Class participation
Practical
Homework
Midterm examination
Quizzes
Final examination
Course Outline:
Weekly topics, learning objectives and assignments.
Week 1
1. Origin of Acupuncture in China
2. Different modalities around China
3. Difference in instrument development between Old Stone Age and New Stone Age
4. Raw materials used to make medical instrument and how they had changed
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM,.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 2
1. The academic establishment of Ancient Acupuncture and Moxibustion
2. Iron Age of the China and development of the medical instruments
3. Relics of excavated tomb more than 2,000years ago showed medical instrument of the time
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Week 3
1.Doctors contributed to the development of theory from Warring States period to Western Han
Dynasty.
2. Introduction of ‘Huangdi’s Internal Classic’
3. Contributive aspect of ‘Huangdi’s Internal Classic’ to Chinese medicine and Pharmacology.
.Quiz on Week 2 material.
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 4
1. Different books on Oriental Medicine theory other than ‘Huangdi’s Internal Classic’
2. Books written from Eastern Han Dynasty to Sui and Tang dynasties.
3. Famous doctors and their theories from Eastern Han Dynasty to Sui and Tang dynasties.
Quiz on Week 3 material.
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 5
1. Introduction of development in Sui dynasty
2. Introduction of the theories developed in Sui dynasty
3. Important points of the theories developed in Sui dynasty
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM.
Prepare for midterm exam.
Week 6
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
Week 7
1. Introduction of development in Tang dynasty
2. Introduction of the theories developed in Tang dynasty
3. Important points of the theories developed in Tang dynasty
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 8
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1.Introduction of Zhang Zhongjing’s ‘Treatise on Febrile and Miscellaneous Diseases.
2. Famous doctors contributed to the establishment of new theories from Han to Tang dynasty
3. Systemic integration of Oriental Medicine in Tang dynasty
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 9
1. Changes in Oriental Medicine in19th century.
2. Effort of the China Government to revive traditional Oriental Medicine
Reading Assignments: Study relevant chapters in FCM, CAM, and WEB.
Prepare for Quiz.
Week 10
1. New trends of the Acupuncture in and out of U.S. and China
2. New developments of Acupuncture and related modalities
3. Corporation of Oriental Medicine and Western medicine
Week 11
FINAL EXAMINATION