Southern California University School of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture
Syllabus Form
Course Number:
Course Title:
OM 322
Survey of Syndromes
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Units/ Hours: 3/ 30
Pre-requisite/ PRC: PRC-OM 314-318
Learning Methods: Text, Lecturing, Handouts, and Discussion
Description:
This course reviews all of the basic theory covered so far with the aim of
preparing the student for entry into the clinic. The course will focus on preparing
the student to pass the clinic intern entrance exam. This course provides students
with a comprehensive study of the identification of patterns which indicates the
process of identifying the basic disharmony that underlies in all clinical
manifestations. This course will handle all the theories of the identification of
patterns within the internal organs.
Objectives:
1. Students will be able to describe the meaning of several types of identification of
patterns. It includes identification of patterns according to the internal organs which was
covered in OM318.
Required Text(s):
1.
Maciocia, G. (1989). The Foundations of Chinese Medicine: A
comprehensive Text for Acupuncturists and Herbalists, New York: Churchill
Livingstone. [Abbreviation: FCM]
2.
Chinese Acupuncture and Moxibustion. Feijing: Foreign Languages Press
[abbreviation; CAM]
3.
Kaptchuk, T. (1966). The Web that Has No Weaver. London: Congdon &
Weed.
Course requirements:
1. Regular attendance as defined according to the SCUSOMA University catalog
and the California State Board Laws and Regulations, which state that students
may not receive credit for the course if they are absent fro more that two classes
or miss part of more that four classes (e.g., leaving early, arriving late) or any
combination thereof.
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2. Class participation
3. Midterm and Final Examinations
4. Weekly Quizzes
5. Homework assignments
Grading:
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Attendance
Class participation
Practical
Homework
Midterm examination
Quizzes
Final examination
Course Outline:
Weekly topics, learning objectives and assignments.
Week 1.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the eight principles.
It includes Exterior-Interior, Hot-Cold, combination of Hot-Cold pattern, Full-Empty, and YinYang. Students also learn Cold on the Exterior-Heat in the Interior, Heat on the Exterior-Cold in
Heats in the Blood, Heat above-Cold below, True Cold-False Heat and True Heat-False Cold,
Full conditions, Mixed Full-Empty conditions, and Empty conditions.
Week 2
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the Qi-Blood-Body
Fluids. It includes Qi pattern identification of Qi deficiency, Qi sinking, Qi stagnation, and
rebellious Qi. Students also learn Blood pattern identification of deficiency of Blood, Stasis of
Blood, Loss of Blood and the Interior, and Body-Fluid pattern identification of deficiency
ofBody Fluids, Edema, and Phlegm.
Week 3
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to pathogenic factors. It
includes Wind(External and Internal), Cold(External and Internal), Summer-Heat,
Dampness(External and Internal), differences between Dampness and Phlegm, Dryness(External
and Internal), differences between Heat and Fire, General manifestation of Fire, organs affected
by fire, Full vs Empty-Fire, and toxic Heat.
Week 4.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the six stages. It
includes historical development, Greater Yang stage, channel patterns of ‘Attack of Wind’ and
‘Attack of Cold’, organ patterns of ‘Accumulation of Water’ and ‘Accumulation of Blood’,
Bright Yang stage of channel pattern and organ pattern, Lesser Yang stage, Greater Yin stage,
Lesser Yin stage of ‘Cold transformation’ and ‘ Heat transformation’ and Terminal Yin stage.
Week 5.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the Four Levels. It
includes the theory of warm disease, Wei Level patterns of ‘Wind-Heat’, ‘Summer-Heat’, ‘Gall
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Bladder-Heat, and ‘Dry-Heat’. Qi Level of ‘Lung-Heat’, ‘Stomach-Heat’, ‘Intestines Dry-Heat’,
and ’Gall Bladder-Heat’, and ‘Damp-Heat in Stomach and Spleen’, Ying Level of
‘Heat in Ying Level’, and ‘Heat in the Pericardium’, Blood Level of ‘Heat victorious moving, ‘
Heat victorious stirring Wind’ , ‘Empty Wind agitating in the interior, ‘Collapse Yin’, and
‘Collapse of Yang’, Latent Heat, relationship between the four Levels, Six stages and Triple
Burners.
Week 6.
MIDTERM EXAMINATION.
Week 7.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the Triple Burners. It
includes Upper burner of ‘Wind Heat in the Lungs’ Defensive Qi portion’, ‘Heat in the Lungs’,
‘Heat in the pericardium’, Middle burner of ‘Heat in Bright Yang’, and ‘Damp Heat in the
Spleen’, Lower burner of ‘Heat in the Kidneys’, ‘Liver-Heat stirs Wind’ and ‘Liver EmptyWind’
Week 8.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the 12 channels,
eight extraordinary vessels, and the five elements. It includes ‘organ vs channel’, channel
pathology, and channel patterns of 12 Meridian patterns
Week 9.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the eight
extraordinary vessels of Du Mai, Ren Mai, Chong Mai, combined Du Mai and Chong Mai
patterns of various conditions. Students also learn the patterns of Dai Mai, Yin Qiao Mai, Yang
Qiao Mai, Yin Wei Mai, and Yang Wei Mai.
Week 10.
Students will learn the identification of patterns according to the five elements. It
includes generating sequence patterns of Wood not generating Fire, Fire not generating Earth,
Earth not generating metal, Metal not generating , and Water not generating Wood, Wood overacting on Earth, Earth over-acting on Water, Water over-acting on Fire, Fire over-acting on
Metal, and Metal over-acting on Wood, insulting sequence pattern of Wood insulting Meta,
Metal insulting Fire, Fire insulting Water, Water insulting Earth, and Earth insulting Wood.
Week 11.
FINAL EXAMINATION