Timing in Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture

Tong Zheng Hong

doi:10.32474/oajcam.2018.01.000107

Abstract

Timing in Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture

Highlights

Both Traditional Chinese medicine and acupuncture originated in ancient China and has evolved for more than two thousand years
TCM therapeutic efficacy usually attributes to the synergistic property of multiple herbs and constituents with timing that has advocated combinatorial therapeutic strategies called formulas for the improvement of efficacy through targeting on syndromes and patient characteristics guided by the TCM theory
Deqi, which is believed to be an important variable in the studies of the mechanism and efficacy of acupuncture treatment, has attracted much more attention in recent years and great efforts like to qualify and quantify deqi sensations with questionnaires, neuroimaging studies of deqi and acupuncture, physiological mechanisms of deqi, and the relation between deqi and clinical efficacy have been made to learn more about deqi and explore if deqi sensation can be achieved through manipulation and the needle retaining to strengthen deqi sensation [11]

Summary

Introduction

Both Traditional Chinese medicine (hereinafter TCM) and acupuncture originated in ancient China and has evolved for more than two thousand years. TCM and acupuncture have undoubtedly established their status in the health system in the West, though they’re totally different from the Western medicine with the philosophy, diagnosis approaches, and pattern identification for treatment.

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