SITCM Open Day Saturday 19 January 2019

Welcome to SITCM Open Day

 

Your New Career in the Natural Health Care Profession

Dear Prospective Students,

2019 enrollment into Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine is now open.

Open Day: Saturday, 19 January 2019, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Date: 19 January 2019
Time: 11:00am-2:00pm
Venue: Suite 502, Level 5, 25 Dixon Street, Sydney NSW 2000


Agenda:
1. General Introduction of SITCM and its courses;
2. Introduction about studying Diploma of Remedial Massage;
3. Clinical demonstration on remedial massage;

4. Student study experience

5. Question time.

 VET STUDENT LOANS Program approved
 Course commences Date: 18 Feb 2019
 34 years since establishment with graduates successfully practising nationally and abroad with employment rate over 90% within one year of graduation;
 Places are available for international students
 Approved by Centrelink for AUSTUDY, Youth Allowance, Student Start-up Scholarship, and Relocation scholarship.

How does acupuncture work?

How does acupuncture work?

From the TCM perspective, acupuncture works by opening up the blocked meridians, thereby regulating the internal Qi flow.

Acupuncture is a therapy in which thin, solid, metallic needles are inserted into specific locations on the body surface to prevent or treat diseases.

As one of the oldest and most commonly used medical therapies in the world, acupuncture has recently become one of the fastest growing forms of Complementary and alternative medicine in Australia.

Known as an external therapy, acupuncture has three basic components: the acupuncture needles, the target location, and the stimulation of the needle. In most cases, the needle-tip pierces only into the superficial tissues of the body. Various effects of acupuncture, whether instant of long-term, are mainly realized through the stimulation of nerve endings and related neural reflexes without injection of any medication.

Modern scientific research has verified that the effects of acupuncture are mainly realized through neural reflexes. If any of the reflex are loops were blocked or destroyed (e.g. cutting off nerves or applying neural blockage), acupuncture would no longer work. As a result of the neural reflexes, acupuncture may generate instant or persistent effects in local or distant regions of the body or throughout the entire body. In order to relieve pain or inflammation, acupuncture may directly improve local circulation relieve muscular tension or spasms, block the input of pain signals into the central nervous system, and promote or regulate the release of hormones, neurotransmitters and other endogenous and immune substances. Which also stimulates the body’s self-healing system.

There are 4500 registered TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine including Acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine) practitioners in Australia. Apart from them 600 Australian medical doctors also practice acupuncture. About 35000 medical doctors practice acupuncture worldwide. According reports, about 80-90% of Australian received or would like to receive acupuncture treatment, as it is the drug-free nature therapy with much less harmful and side effects comparing with taking chemical medicine. More than 100 medical conditions have been recommended for acupuncture by the World Health Organization (WHO).

A Story of Herbal Research

A story of Herbal Medicine Research

Chinese medicine made a huge contribution to medicine in 2015 with Professor Tu Youyou, an eighty-five years old TCM researcher of The Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing, China, received half of the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2015.

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During the Vietnam War in the 1960s the Chinese government decided to set up a research program to find a new drug for treating malaria, which was highly prevalent in Vietnam. Many scientists conducted studies but their trials failed again and again. One day, Ms. Tu Youyou found a record of malaria treatment with a Chinese herb QING HAO Artemisia in an ancient medical book dated back to 1600 years in the Jin dynasty. Rather than use the traditional boiling extraction methods, the Jin dynasty TCM doctor used the raw herbal juice instead. With this low temperature extraction method the malarial parasite had a 100% killing rate.

2

Soon after Ms. Tu Youyou’s discovery, many TCM universities undertook clinical trials, and the chemical structure of the Artemisia was discovered. Through several decades of application and pharmaceutical refinement, the QING HAO SU (Artemisia extract drug) has been proven to become the most effective medicine for malaria surpassing Quinine, the traditional chemical drug for this disease. Soon it became the first choice of US marines for their overseas troops to combat malaria, and QING HAO SU was approved by FDA, United States, as a formal drug in 2009.

After wiping out malaria in China, the herbal drug was introduced to African countries where still were affected by malaria. Since then millions of lives have been saved. It is for this reason Professor Tu Youyou was awarded a Nobel Prize.

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It is estimated that there are more than 100,000 TCM books that were published before 1900 which may contain hold great medical value waiting to be discovered. Studying Traditional Chinese Medicine is the first step of this discovery. The philosophy of TCM will benefit the learners. The enrolment into the Sydney Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine for 2018 has now opened. Open day is 23rd July and 24th September 2017, 10:00am – 2:00pm. The course will commence on 12th February 2018. Ph: (02) 92121968, website: www.sitcm.edu.au

 

QING HAO Artemisia

QING HAO Artemisia

Professor Tu Youyou

Professor Tu Youyou