1、What is a reductionist ideology?It seeks to understand a system by breaking it down into its constituent parts.2、What are the proofed benefits of Chinese“soft exercises”?Symptomatic relief and improved health and well-being3、What’s the fundamental difference between the western logic and the Chinese concept of yin-yang?The former is based on opposition of contraries while the latter represent opposite but complementary qualities.4、What does“drain and not store”mean?“Drain and not store”refers to the role of the Yang organs in the transformation and disposal of food and waste.All the Yang organs receive food or a product of food and pass it along.5、How does the concept of the organs in Chinese medicine differ from that of contemporary western medicine?The organs in Chinese medicine do not refer to the specific tissue,but rather to semi-abstract concepts which are complexes of closed interrelated functions.6、What’s the main function of blood?To nourish the whole of the body.7、What’s the transformation of fluids into sweat dependent on?The lung’s function of ensuring diffusion and depurative downbearing.8、What’s the function of protective qi?Protecting the body surface and warding off external pathogens9、When can an emotion generate illness?When an emotion is either excessive or insufficient over a long period of time,or when it arises very suddenly with great force,that it can generate imbalance and illness.10、Please list three symptoms in the case that an emotion disturbs the function of the heart.Dizziness:a feeling that you are about to fall,lack of blood in the headPalpitation:a rapid and irregular heart beatInsomnia:not being able to fall asleepFlowery vision:not being able to see clearly11、What’s the physiological characteristic of the liver in terms of the five phase theory?The liver likes orderly smoothness and governs uprising and motion and has the dredging function.12、What are the related procedures that fall into the range of acupuncture treatments?Electro-acupuncture,moxibustion,cupping and acupuncture pressure13、Please list at least three diseases that can be treated successfully by acupuncture or its related treatments.Lower backache,cervical spondylosis,condylitis,arthritic conditions,headaches or all kinds(migraine),allergic reactions,etc.14、A foreign student is learning Chinese medicine.One day,he followed Dr.Wang in the clinic and a patient came in.The patient had a horrible cough and wanted to take some herbal medicine to take care of it.Dr.Wang looked at her tongue,took her pulse and wrote out a formula for her. The thing is,he put in a whole bunch of Chai Hu that were for Liver,which cause the student to wonder:Why use Liver herbs like Chai Hu for a Lung problem?Please use the knowledge you have learned in the book to explain the problem to the foreign student.It’s actually not that unusual in Chinese medicine to see a problem manifest in one place, but think that its origin is somewhere else.In this case,the lungs were where the problem manifested,but they were really just the weak link in the chain.From what you describe,Dr. Wang obviously thought that the cough was a Liver cough.In Chinese medicine we say “Wood fire is punishing Metal”.15、Mark:“I am reading a book on Chinese medicine and am having a problem understanding how Yin-Yang works.How Yin can change into Yang and Yang can change into Yin.I mean,surely once you say a thing is Yin or Yang it must be fixed?What About the fact that men are Yang and women are Yin.Everybody says it and everybody accepts it as true.You can’t just go around changing your gender at the drop of a hat,so their Yin-Yang designations must be fixed.”Please use the knowledge you have learned from the book to answer Mark’s question.Not really.Everything is relative and whether something is considered Yin or Yang depends on the angle you are looking at it from.From the point of view of the whole human race,men are Yang and women Yin.However,within the group of men there will be some that could be categorized as Yin,while others would be more Yang.The trick with using Yin-Yang theory is to see what you are looking at as a complete whole and then divide it into Yin and Yang aspects.医学英语实用翻译教程Chapter3I.Translate the following sentences into Chinese1.Archimeds first discovered the principle of displacement of water by solid bodies.译文：阿基米德最先发现固体排水的原理。

2.There are different ways of changing energy from one form into another.译文：将能量从一种形式转变成另一种形式有各种不同的方法。