Curricular Unit 4 - Puncture Microsystems and Meridians

Recommended Prerequisites

Scientific knownledge of Medicine

  Minimal skills of medical emergency

  Capacity for analyse and use of complementary diagnostic tests

  Practice Medical act.

Teaching Methods

It’s intended to achieve the acquisition of knowledge by lecture method, through theoretical and experimental study.

Learning Outcomes

The student, doctor in training, should deepen their knowledge of the traditional chinese system and relate it with a clinic component and current scientific knowledge and technology.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The study of Functional Systems according to the Traditional Chinese System (TCS) and it´s analysis according to current knowledge

The study of Auriculopuncture in the TCS analysis and current knowledge

The study of Craniopuncture in the TCS analysis and current knowledge

The study of Rinopuncture in the TCS analysis and current knowledge

The study of Quiropuncture in the TCS analysis and current knowledge

General study of the extra-holes meridian acupuncture

Brief analysis of clinical history and medical diagnostics.

Head Lecturer(s)

António Manuel Silvério Cabrita

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 100.0%

Bibliography

An introduction to weternn medical Acupuncture. Adrian White, Mike Cummings, Jacqueline Filshie. Elsevier, 2008

Alquimia dos sabores. Guilherme Juvenal e Diana Pinheiro.  Dinalivro. 2011.

A Acupuntura na Medicina. Coordenador: António Almeida Ferreia. Lidel, 2010.

Auriculoterapia na prática Clínica. Coordenador: António Almeida Ferreia. Lidel, 2012.

Acupunctura Craniana na prática Clínica. Coordenador: António Almeida Ferreia. Lidel, 2011.

Ecologia da Saúde uma medicina para o futuro. Philippe SaintMarc. Jacques Janet. Piaget, 2004.