The Taiwan Report

QUESTIONS

1. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:

(a) Chinese medicine, as practised in Taiwan, combines the best of "Western" and "Traditional Chinese" medicine.

(b)TCM involves study of AP, moxibustion and Herbal Medicine. The latter is most important.

(c) For all branches of TCM, the medical theory (Yin-Yang, Five Phases, Perverse Causes of Disease, Disease syndromes and Diagnostics) is the same.

(d) In Taiwan, all herbalists are trained in AP and all acupuncturists are trained in Herbal Medicine.

(e) Chinese Herbal Medicine is very valuable in CVA, hypertension, neurasthenia and many other internal diseases.

 

 

2. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:

(a) "The Red Book of Chinese Medicine" (by Mao Tse Tung) was the basic text used by most Taiwanese experts in acupuncture.

(b) Methods of selecting AP points for therapy, and of manipulating the needles, were highly individualistic in Taiwan.

(c) There was general agreement that manual needling alone was as good as, or better, than electro-needling for most conditions requiring AP.

(d) Though electrostimulators were freely available in every clinic visited, Rogers saw very little use of electro-AP. Exceptions were: AP analgesia before surgery and in certain chronic conditions, especially paralysis/paresis after CVA or nerve injury.

(e) Great emphasis was placed on a careful search for AhShi points.

 

 

3. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:

(a)AhShi points usually are present in pain conditions, such as headache, joint pain and myofascial syndromes.

(b)AhShi points may also arise in some cases of internal disease (lung, heart, liver, gall bladder, gastrointestinal and urogenital tracts).

(c) The Shu points (T3 to S4 on the inner line of the BL Channel) are palpated carefully in internal disease, as are the Mu points (Alarm points on the abdomen/thorax).

(d)AhShi points often arise in joint pain (shoulder, elbow, lowback syndrome, hip, knee)

(e)Headache seldom arises from AhShi points in the neck and shoulder muscles

 

 

4. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:

(a) All pressure-sensitive areas are AhShi points but AhShi points are not always Trigger Points (TPs).

(b)The best AhShi point for therapy is the Trigger Point (TP), i.e. palpation pressure on the point causes a pain sensation to radiate to the problem area, muscle, or organ.

(c) The AhShi point seldom occurs within the area of pain. Patients usually are unaware of its presence until it is palpated.

(d)AhShi points always occur far away from the problem area.

(e)AhShi/TP points can recruit new triggers elsewhere, usually in the muscles.

 

 

5. One of the following statements is not correct. Indicate the incorrect statement:

(a) Painful areas in scarred tissue may act as powerful TPs and these areas must be treated to obtain optimum results.

(b) Taiwanese acupuncturists placed great emphasis on searching for (and treating) TPs in scarred areas.

(c) Other pain-sensitive areas (motor points, "fibrositic nodules" etc) are useful in therapy but they are not as powerful as the TPs.

(d)AhShi therapy is the best introduction to the benefits of needle therapy.

(e) Unfortunately, AhShi points are not present in every case, and Western doctors who know only the AhShi method are unable to help by needle techniques in such cases.