ICMART Lexicon of Medical Acupuncture.pdf - International Council ...

Clinical training progresses in observation a practitioner at work, gaining valuableexperience in the many varied diagnostic skills in Traditional Chinese Medicine,mentioned above. Clinical training is reinforced practical days, where a patient is seenwithin small groups which enables the student to put the diagnostic skills taught intopractice and take on more responsibility in the treatment of a patient. Clinical training isfurther reinforced for each individual student to take added responsibility for the patients’diagnostic and treatment in common illnesses of internal medicine, pediatrics,dermatology, ENT, ophthalmology, obstetrics and gynecology, trauma under theguidance of senior experienced doctors of TCM.The goal of the training outlined above is correctly diagnose by integrative methods:classical and traditional, to interpret classical diagnose into the traditional energeticdiagnose, which requires much more time and greater number of hours.Corporal AcupunctureThe educational programmer includes courses in twelve regular channels, the eight extrachannels and fifteen collaterals. The twelve regular channels, together the Ren Channeland the Du Channel of the eight extra channels, form the fourteen channels, along each ofwhich are points for applying Acupuncture and Moxibution, extraordinary points, ashipoints, specific and trigger points. Detail information about methods of locating points:according to anatomical landmarks, proportional measurement, finger measurement,neurological location by dermatome, myotome and sklerotome. Regional anatomy,vasculature and innervation of points, method of puncturing. The needles and how to usethem: manipulation of the filiform needle. Other acupuncture methods: The three edgedneedle, the cutaneous or tapping needle, the intradermal or imbedding needle. Theeducational programmer includes the methods of combination acupuncture pointsaccording five elements treatment, empiric rules of points combination and detailinformation and practitional skills of moxibution. Clinical training progresses to put thetheoretical aspects into practice and take on more responsibility in the treatment of apatient.57