The Foundations of Classical Chinese Gynecology

The Foundations of Classical Chinese Gynecology

Sabine Wilms
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ABORM, California, CTCMA, Florida, NCCAOM
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Recorded Online Course
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The Foundations of Classical Chinese Gynecology

Gynecology (most notably the treatment of menstrual disorders, chronic states of depletion, pregnancy support, postpartum recovery, and fertility) is one of the medical specialties where Chinese medicine has a treasure trove of diagnostic and therapeutic tools to offer any medical practitioner. Many of these were already firmly established in the first millennium CE. In this course, Sabine Wilms will introduce practitioners to the little known theoretical, and clinical roots of this practice in classical Chinese medicine. After presenting these roots in their cultural and historical context, we will then explore the meaning of this information for the modern medical practitioner. Hereby we will critically explore (and perhaps question) our own, often unconscious, assumptions about the female body and differences to the male body, about the “health” and “illness” of this body, and about treatment goals and techniques.

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Course Outline: 

A: Introduction

  • Associations with Femaleness in Early Chinese Philosophy and Cosmology
  • Early Chinese Society and the Status of Women
  • Realities of Women’s Healthcare in Early China

B: Medical Notions Related to the Female Body in the Theoretical Classics

C: Women’s Medical Treatment as Reflected in Classical Formularies

  • Jin Gui Yao Lüe (“Essentials of the Golden Casket,” 2nd century CE, by Zhang Zhongjing)
  • Zhu Bing Yuan Hou Lun (“On the Origins and Symptoms of the Various Diseases,” early 7th centur, by Chao Yuanfang)

Discussion and Answering Questions

  • Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang (Essential Formulas For Emergencies, Worth a Thousand in Gold,” 652 CE, by Sun Simiao)

D: Discussion and Answering Question

  1. Later developments: “In women, blood is the leader!”
  2. Contrast to biomedical view, e.g. menstruation
  3. Clinical applicability? Personal responses? Does this material make sense to you on a clinical or personal level?

Sabine Wilms

Dr. Sabine Wilms has been studying medieval Chinese medicine and the treatment of the female body in Chinese medical texts for well over a dozen years, since her days as a doctoral student in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology at the University of Arizona. She currently divides her time between producing books on Chinese medicine, researching and lecturing on Chinese medical history, gynecology, and “cultivating life,” and living the good life in pursuit of the perfect goat cheese on her small farm in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.

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