NON -DEGREE PROGRAM

ACUPUNTURE ADVANCED COURSE

By stimulating specific points on the body, most often by inserting thin metal needles through the skin, practitioners seek to remove blockages in the flow of qi. Other T.C.M. therapies include moxibustion (burning moxa-a cone or stick of dried herb. A plant or part of a plant used for its flavor, scent, or potential therapeutic properties. Includes flowers, leaves, bark, fruit, seeds, stems, and roots., usually mugwort-on or near the skin, sometimes in conjunction with acupuncture); cupping (applying a heated cup to the skin to create a slight suction); Chinese massage; mind-body therapies such as qi gong and tai chi; and dietary therapy. Health benefits of acupuncture include relief from chronic pain, arthritis, anxiety, insomnia, depression,migraine, nausea, postoperative pain and obesity. Acupuncture is one of the most widely used alternative medicines throughout the world, and in simplest terms, acupuncture is the practice of penetrating the skinwith small needles at specific points on the body. This stimulates certain nerve endings of the body, and can relieve a wide variety of health conditions.

BACHELOR PROGRAM

SCIENCE OF CHINESE MEDICINE

Study of Chinese Medicine is a clinical medicine program. It demands the students to systematically master the fundamental theories and diagnostic and treatment skills of Chinese Medicine as well as certain knowledge of Western Medicine and its diagnostic and treatment skills; master the diagnostic and treatment skills of the familiar diseases of Internal Medicine, Surgery, Genecology and Pediatrics and the emergent treatment of their acute diseases, stubborn diseases and critical diseases; have certain research abilities. According to the market demand, there are several different directions in this program. After finishing the basic courses and part of the courses for specialty in the first three years, they can choose different specialties (Study of Chinese Medicine or Traumatology and Orthopedics) according to their interest and the social demand in the fourth year.