Workshop
- Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine – 23 February 2010 6.30-8.30pm
Introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine
Tuesday 23 February 2010, 6:30-8:30pm
Workshop Outline
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has proven effective in the treatment and prevention of illness and disease for thousands of years. It is commonly practiced and officially recognized and credentialed in China today, alongside Western biomedicine. Supported by the University's Herbal Medicines Research and Education Centre, this workshop will introduce participants to the culture, philosophy and cosmology of TCM. Whether in the form of herbal medicine, acupuncture, Chinese massage, or qigong (therapeutic bodily exercise and regulated breathing techniques), TCM is increasingly recognized by scientific, medical, pharmacological, and insurance agencies in the Western world. This one-day workshop will introduce you to the ancient culture, philosophy, and cosmology of TCM, and provide a survey of different aspects of TCM practice today.
Topics
- Yin and yang theory
- The five elements
- The human body's meridian system
- The theory of the five viscera (zangfu)
- Important Chinese herbal remedies
- The importance of diagnosis and treatment
- Taiji, Diet and wellbeing
- TCM in China
- TCM research in Australia
Presented by Dr Lily Li, Ms Yuling Chen and Dr George Li
Dr Lily Li
Dr. Lily Li is the founder of Zen Clinics. She received her B. S from Henan College of TCM, M.D from Shanxi College of TCM and Ph. D from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. She was trained in both Western and Chinese medicine and was an Associate Professor at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. After practiced and taught at the medical school for nine years, Dr. Lily Li came to Sydney in 1999 as a visiting scholar and to help an Australia company to conduct research on Hepatitis C. She now practices in her own clinics and also teaches TCM at the Faculty of Pharmacy, The University of Sydney.
Ms Yuling Chen
Ms Yuling Chen graduated from Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, a key university of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in China. She has practiced TCM & Acupuncture for 23 years and she had worked at the first affiliated hospital, Sun Yat-Sen University in China as a senior medical doctor and a clinical supervisor of medical students and overseas students before she arrived in Australia. As a senior lecturer at Sun Yat-Sen University of medical sciences in China, she gave lectures to the medical students in the university and undertook medical research. Ms Yuling Chen is a qualified Practitioner of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in Australia. Ms Chen is a member of The University of Sydney Cancer Research Network, and she is doing her PhD at the University of New South Wales and University of Sydney.
Dr George Qian Li
Dr George Qian Li is the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Herbal Medicines, and the Coordinator of the Herbal Medicines Research and Education Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney. He received his PhD from Sun Yat-Sen University in 1988. He was a visiting scholar at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and has been working at the University of Sydney since 1990. Dr Li's work focuses on quality standardisation of popular herbs such as St John's Wort, and Centella together with a team of researchers and postgraduate students. Dr Li has received government grants for research projects on Traditional Chinese Medicine.