Cause D: Therapeutics of Acupuncture and Moxibustion

Studying progress (total time 220 hrs, 14 weeks, about three months)

Part 1 General Introduction to Acupuncture Treatment (86 hrs)

Section 1. What are the general principals of treatment?

1. Regulation of Yin and Yang
2. Strengthening the body resistance and eliminating the pathogenic factors
3. Distinguishing the Primary from the Secondary
4. Treatment of diseases according to climatic and seasonal Conditions, Geographical Locations and the Individual Condition

Section 2 Therapeutic methods of acupuncture and moxibustion

1. Reinforcing                
2. Reducing
3. Warming                  
4. Clearing
5. Ascending                 
6. Descending

Section 3 Basic principles for prescription and selection of points

l. Acupuncture prescription
2. Principles for Point Selection

Section 4 Application of selection points

l. Specific points on the four extremities
2.Specific points on the head and trunk

Take The middle Exam for Course D (4 hrs)

When you finish the above contents and prepare to take the middle exam, please contact with your tutor to send you the middle exam paper for course D by e-mail. After you finish the exam, please send back the finished exam paper to your tutor, he/she will check your answers and give you the score.

Part 2 Treatment of Common Diseases (126 hrs)

1.Headache,
2. Common cold,
3. Cough,
4. Asthma,
5. Epigastric pain,
6. Vomiting,
7. Abdominal pain,
8. Diarrhea,
9. Constipation,
10. Hypochondriac pain,
11. Insomnia
12. Impotence,
13. Dizziness,
14. Essential Hypertension,
15. Spasmodic pain over the face
16. Facial paralysis
17. Sciatica
18. Periarthritis of Should
19. Lumbago.
20. Irregular Menstruation
21. Dysmenorrhea
22. Amenorrhea
23. Leukorrhagia
24. Sprain
25. Elbow strain
26. Thecal cyst
27. Tinnitus and deafness
28. Myopia
29. Toothache
30. Sore throat 
31. Acute pain

Take the final exam for course D (4 hrs)
When you finish all of the contents and prepare to take the final exam, please contact with your tutor to send you the final exam paper for course D by e-mail. After you finish the exam, please send back the finished exam paper to your tutor, he/she will check your answers and give you the score.