Health Promotion and Maintenance Q 38

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The nurse anticipates that for a family who practices Chinese medicine the priority goal would be to:

  

     A. Achieve harmony

     B. Maintain a balance of energy

     C. Respect life

     D. Restore yin and yang

    

    

Correct Answer: D. Restore yin and yang

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For followers of Chinese medicine, health is maintained through the balance between the forces of yin and yang. Traditional Chinese medicine is a medical system that began being developed in China about 5000 years ago, which makes it the oldest continuous medical system on the planet.

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Option A: Living in harmony with one’s natural environment with the aim of keeping all aspects of a person-mind, body, and spirit- in a state of harmony and balance so that disease never has a chance to develop.

Option B: This balance and a healthy lifestyle are the focus of Chinese medicine which empowers the individual to participate in his own health.

Option C: In Chinese medicine, the body, and indeed a human being, is not seen as a machine, living in isolation from the world around it. Human beings are seen as part of the whole of things, which includes our environments, nature, and the universe itself.

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