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OM 318
Diagnosis of Oriental Medicine 3
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Units/ Hours: 3/ 30
Pre-requisite/ PRC:OM 306-310
Learning Methods: Text, Lecturing, overhead and educational video
Description: This course provides students with a comprehensive study of the identification of
patterns which indicates the process of identifying the basic disharmony that
underlies in all clinical manifestations. This course will handle all the theories of
the identification of patterns within the internal organs.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to describe observational findings with consistency, and be able to
interpret the meaning of these findings for Oriental differentiation of patterns.
2. Students will be able to describe auscultatory and olfactory finding with consistency, and
be able to interpret the meaning of these findings for Oriental differentiations of patterns.
3. Students will be able to describe palpatory findings with consistency, and be able to
interpret the meaning of these finding for Oriental differentiation of patterns.
4. Students will be able to conduct a coherent, smooth-flowing, comprehensive inquiry,
examination of patients, and be able to interpret the meaning of findings from inquiry for
Oriental differentiation of patterns.
Required Text(s):
1.
Maciocia, G. (1989). The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A
comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists, New York: Churchill
Livingstone. [Abbreviation: FCM]
2.
Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Feijing: Foreign Languages Press
[abbreviation; CAM]
3.
Kaptchuk, T. (1966). The Web that Has No Weaver. London: Congdon &
Weed.
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Course requirements:
1. Regular attendance as defined according to the SCUSOMA University catalog
and the California State Board Laws and Regulations, which state that students
may not receive credit for the course if they are absent fro more that two classes
or miss part of more that four classes (e.g., leaving early, arriving late) or any
combination thereof.
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Class participation
Midterm and Final Examinations
Weekly Quizzes
Homework assignments
Attendance
Class participation
Practical
Homework
Midterm examination
Quizzes
Final examination
Course Outline:
Weekly topics, learning objectives and assignments.
Week 1
Syndrome of Heart and Small Intestine
Deficiency of heart Qi, deficiency of heart Yang, collapse of heart Yang
Deficiency of heart blood, deficiency of heart Yin
Hyperactivity of heart fire
Stagnation of heart vessels
Phlegm misting the heart
Phlegm – fire disturbing the heart
Excessive heat of the small intestine
Pain due to disturbance of the Qi of the small intestine
Week 2
Syndrome of the Lung and Large Intestine
Deficiency of lung Qi
Deficiency of lung Yin
Wind cold pathogens tighten the lung
Invasion of the lung by cold pathogens
Retention of phlegm – damp in the lung
Invasion of the lung by wind – heat pathogens
Retention of pathogenic heat in the lung (phlegm-heat)
Invasion of the lung by dry pathogens
Damp – heat in the large intestine
Consumption of fluids in the large intestine
Incontinence diarrhea due to deficiency of large intestine Yang Qi
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Week 3
Syndrome of Spleen and stomach
Deficiency of spleen Qi
Deficiency of spleen Yang
Sinking of central Qi
Dysfunction of the spleen in controlling blood
Invasion of spleen by cold – damp
Damp heat accumulates in the spleen
Deficiency of stomach Yin
Retention of food in the stomach
Cold in the stomach
Heat in the stomach
Week 4.
Syndrome of Liver and Gall Bladder
Stagnation of liver Qi
Flaming up of liver fire
Deficiency of liver blood
Deficiency of liver Yin
Hyperactivity of liver Yang
Stirring – up of liver wind
Accumulation of cold in the liver channel
Damp heat invades the liver and gall bladder
Depression of gall bladder and phlegm disturbance
Week 5.
Midterm Examination
Week 6.
Syndrome of the Kidney and Bladder
Deficiency of the kidney Yang
Deficiency of kidney Yin
Deficiency of kidney essence
Kidney Qi fails to consolidate (astringent agent)
Failure of kidney to maintain normal inspiration
Damp – heat in the bladder
Week 7.
Complicated Syndromes of the Zang-Fu Organs
Disharmony between the heart and kidney
Deficiency of heart and spleen
Deficiency of heart and liver blood
Deficiency of heart and kidney yang
Week 8.
Deficiency of lung and heart qi
Deficiency of spleen and lung qi
Deficiency of spleen and kidney yang
Deficiency of lung and kidney yin
Deficiency of liver and kidney yin
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Week 9.
Imbalance between liver and spleen
Disharmony between the liver and stomach
Invasion of the lung by liver fire
Deficiency of lung and kidney qi
Week 10.
Review of all syndromes
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Final Examination
Week 11.