14 courses with the subject CH, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
CH 301Introduction to Chinese Herbal
Medicine - 2 credits This course introduces the basic theory of the use of herbal medicine in Traditional Chinese Medicine. The nature of herbal preparation in China is explored. The basic categories of herbal treatment are studied and important herbs in each category are discussed in detail. The concomitant use of herbs and Chinese Herbal Medicine will be discussed as well as the situations that may call for herbal treatments before or after acupuncture treatments. An introduction to the pharmacy is given including the labeling, categorization, storage of herbs, and dispensing protocols. Students are introduced to all herbal products stocked in the pharmacy including raw herbs; freeze dried granulated formulas; Chinese prepared products; and miscellaneous natural products including herbs, vitamins, minerals and other substances 61 | P a g e
Shan Han Lun is one of the four TCM classics textbooks taught in all TCM universities in China. It is the oldest surviving clinical TCM textbook especially for febrile diseases. In the period of Han Dynasty, most of TCM schools believed that febrile disease is caused by cold-attack. This text discusses the principle of differential diagnosis and treatment of febrile disease based on the theory of the six stages. The course will teach six stages differentiation, pathological progressive disease transmission, and the most important formulas in this classical book for febrile diseases. OS 304, OS 305
credits This course introduces approximately 100-150 effective patent medicines that can be easily purchased in the U.S. including their names, formulas, indications for prescription, and dosage. Herbal attention and precautions will be given to the verification of their efficacy by Western medical research. After this course, students must demonstrate mastery of at least 100 commonly used herbal patents and be able to apply these medicines in their clinical work. OS 304
(Elective for OM students only) - 2 credits The course is designed as a review and synthesis of Materia Medica and herbal formulation. It aims to help students achieve a comprehensive and integrated understanding of Chinese herbology as one of the cornerstones of TCM, while also assisting them in their preparation for the National Certification (NCCAOM) exam in Chinese Herbology. Upon completion, students are required to demonstrate mastery of Chinese herbology and formulation and to be able to apply this knowledge to specific cases.
Medicine – Wen Bing Xue - 3 credits Wen Bing Xue, the warm febrile diseases, one of the four TCM classics, was written after the Shan Han Lun. The theories of both the cold-attack diseases and warm febrile diseases are two major schools which supplement each other and play an important guiding role in the clinical practice and studies of TCM. In the period of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the school of febrile diseases, made a breakthrough in the traditional understanding that – all febrile diseases belong to cold “attack”, thereby creating the principle of differential diagnosis and treatment of febrile disease on the basis of the theories of Wei- Qi- Ying- Xue (Four level) as well as Triple Jiao (San Jiao). The course will teach the febrile diseases of pathology, pulse, tongue diagnosis, four level differentiation, San Jiao differentiation and treatment. 501, OS 304, OS 305
