Traditional Chinese Medicine
Arras, Arianne Francesca BA Development Studies 2011-00178
Calpatura, Ariadna Mira F. BA Development Studies 2011-48099
Dela Cruz, Hazel Joy BA Social Science (Area Studies) 2011-17964
Dumalaog, Frances Camille BA Development Studies 2011-29085
Juane, Marc BA Social Science (Area Studies) 2011-17964
Anthropology 167: Medical Anthropology
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
A Background on Traditional Chinese Medicine and TCM in China
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), also known as Chinese medicine (中医), is an umbrella term for various medical practices developed in China. TCM traces its history since the period of the mythical “Yellow Emperor”, Huang di (Jia, 2005). According to Jia, “TCM is old enough but is not something out of date, and it still has the power of getting rid of troubles of our modern society”. Much of today’s TCM was founded on The NeiJing or The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, one of the oldest Chinese medical texts which is presented in a question and answer manner. As the Chinese nation evolved throughout different dynasties to the contemporary era, so did the theory and practice of TCM.
As western biomedicine began to gain leverage in China, mainly due to the Opium wars, the advancements in TCM was greatly affected. Skepticism on the modalities of TCM grew, and even ethnic Chinese people started questioning whether or not TCM really caters to the medical problems experienced by the Chinese people. In an interview to Dr. Philip Nino Tan-Gatue (2015), a practitioner of TCM from the Philippine General Hospital who is also the head of acupuncture services at the Medical City and a lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, at his clinic at the Faculty of Medical Arts Building of PGH, the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, and paved the way for the formalization of the training for TCM as well as the legal recognition of
Calpatura, Ariadna Mira F. BA Development Studies 2011-48099
Dela Cruz, Hazel Joy BA Social Science (Area Studies) 2011-17964
Dumalaog, Frances Camille BA Development Studies 2011-29085
Juane, Marc BA Social Science (Area Studies) 2011-17964
Anthropology 167: Medical Anthropology
TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE
A Background on Traditional Chinese Medicine and TCM in China
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), also known as Chinese medicine (中医), is an umbrella term for various medical practices developed in China. TCM traces its history since the period of the mythical “Yellow Emperor”, Huang di (Jia, 2005). According to Jia, “TCM is old enough but is not something out of date, and it still has the power of getting rid of troubles of our modern society”. Much of today’s TCM was founded on The NeiJing or The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Internal Medicine, one of the oldest Chinese medical texts which is presented in a question and answer manner. As the Chinese nation evolved throughout different dynasties to the contemporary era, so did the theory and practice of TCM.
As western biomedicine began to gain leverage in China, mainly due to the Opium wars, the advancements in TCM was greatly affected. Skepticism on the modalities of TCM grew, and even ethnic Chinese people started questioning whether or not TCM really caters to the medical problems experienced by the Chinese people. In an interview to Dr. Philip Nino Tan-Gatue (2015), a practitioner of TCM from the Philippine General Hospital who is also the head of acupuncture services at the Medical City and a lecturer at the University of the Philippines College of Medicine, at his clinic at the Faculty of Medical Arts Building of PGH, the foundation of the People’s Republic of China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, and paved the way for the formalization of the training for TCM as well as the legal recognition of
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