ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Acupuncture and Chinese herbal remedies date back at least 2, 200 years, although the earliest known written record of Chinese medicine is the Huangdi neijing (The Yellow Emperor’s Inner Classic) from the 3rd century bce. That opus provided the theoretical concepts for TCM that remain the basis of its practice today.

Detailed explanation-2: -Traditional Chinese Medicine has a history of about 3000 years starting from the early Zhou Dynasty of China or even earlier as the oldest medical writings on herbs were found in Classic of Changes (Yi Jing) and Classic of Poetry (Shi Jing) (Reid, 1996).

Detailed explanation-3: -Moxibustion (the burning of herbal leaves on or near the body) Cupping (the use of warmed glass jars to create suction on certain points of the body) Massage. Herbal remedies.

Detailed explanation-4: -It detailed the body’s anatomy and functions, the blood and circulation, physiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment, acupuncture and moxibustion (a form of heat therapy in which dried plant materials called “moxa” are burned on or very near the skin) and the use of ethnopharmacology (herbal medicine).