For your Final Paper for Biochemistry, you can select a topic of personal interest as your starting point, perhaps one that has come up in class discussions.
Or, if you prefer, you may want to compare TCM and conventional western biochemistry as it affects diagnosis or treatment.
I am happy to work with you as you develop your paper - so let me know if you have any questions.
And as a guide, here are some of the titles, or opening sentences, from previous years:
- The Integration of Biochemistry with TCM
- Biodiversity
- Television and Cognition
- Acceptance of TCM through the Translation of TCM Concepts into Western Scientific Terms
- How is Biochemistry Useful to Acupuncturists?
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Our recent readings in molecular cell biology struck me as acutely relevant to our TCM studies at ACCHS, most notably one scientist's epiphany of, "the enormous complexity of a cell as a functioning whole where everything is connected to everything.”
- The Space Between: "I am many and I am none.”
- Experimenter conducted a self-experiment by reducing the daily intake of her regular hypothyroid medication while under weekly care of a Doctor of Oriental Medicine. As the subject reduced her medication the DOM would supplement with herbal prescriptions and acupuncture treatment to help offset the withdrawals and direct effects of such an experiment.
- In the rich pharmacopeia of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a specific category "invigorating blood" is designated and prescribed specifically to relieve signs and symptoms pertaining to diagnosis of blood stasis."
- The intention of this paper is to open a discussion of the biological considerations of Shang Han Lun Theory using the language of Western Medicine. The purpose in taking on this subject is to help me associate and understand Shang Han Lun six channel theory with physical and biological realities.
Take care
Larry
