1. PREVENTION IN TCM: ENERGY CONSERVATION
19th ItVAS Study Day on Veterinary Acupuncture May, 12, – Milan – Italy
PREVENTION IN TCM:
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Francesco LONGO
DVM, Repr. Sp.
S.I.A.V. – It.V.A.S.
(Italian Veterinary Acupuncture Society)
C.I.A.V. – It.V.A.C.
(Italian Veterinary Acupuncture Clinical Center)
Bologna – Italy

2. PREVENTION IN TCM: ENERGY CONSERVATION
Prevention is the technical-professional action or activity that aims to reduce mortality, morbidity or effects due to certain risk factors or to a certain disease prophylaxis
promoting individual health and well-being
and collective salutogenesis
There are three levels of prevention, which refer to different acts and stages
We are coming to understand health
not as the absence of disease,
but rather as the process by which
individuals maintain their sense
of coherence and ability to function
in the face of changes in themselves
and their relationships with their
Environment.
SENSE OF COHERENCE - SOC
A. ANTONOVSKY (1979)

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Primary Prevention
It is the classic and main form of prevention, focused on the adoption of interventions and behaviors able to avoid or reduce upstream the onset and development of a disease or an unfavorable event
Frequently, primary prevention is based on behavioral or psychosocial actions:
health education, psychological interventions and psychoeducational changes in behavior, attitudes or representations

4. PREVENTION IN TCM: ENERGY CONSERVATION
Secondary Prevention
This is a technical definition that refers to the early diagnosis of a disease, allowing it to intervene early on it, but not avoiding or reducing its appearance
The pivotal tool is screening, which allows for early intervention and increases therapeutic opportunities, improving progression and reducing negative effects

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Tertiary Prevention
it is a technical term related not so much to the prevention of the disease itself, but to its more complex outcomes
Prevention in this case is that of complications, the chances of recurrence and death
(even if, in this case, all therapeutic treatments would be in a certain sense, paradoxically, "prevention")
With tertiary prevention we also mean the management of consequential functional deficits and disabilities in a pathological or dysfunctional state

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Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not simply the absence of illness or infirmity
HEALTH
Equilibrium
The wise doctors do not treat already ill people,
but they instruct the healthy ones on what to do in
order not to get sick. Administering medicines to
treat diseases already established is comparable to
the behavior of those who start digging a
well and feel thirsty or to those who forge weapons
when the war has already been declared.
Is not it a little late? Lingshu

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HOMEOSTASIS / HOMEODYNAMICS
ὅμοιος στάσις
SIMILAR POSITION
Homeostasis is a central organizing principle of physiology and refers to the maintenance of a relatively stable internal environment. It is an automatic control mechanism achieved through the effects of different organ systems working together to return the organism to its equilibrium state.

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HOMEOSTASIS
ACUTE STRESS 
WARNING
SIGNAL
SENSORY ORGANS
NERVOUS FIBERS
THIN BEAM
GABA
ADRENALINE
NORADRENALINE
BLOOD PRESSURE
CARBOHYDRATES
LIPID
ESCAPE
COMBAT
BLOCK
AMYGDALA
PROCESSED INPUT
RESPONSE

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HOMEOSTASIS
HETEROSTASIS
GABA - ENDORPHIN - SEROTONIN 
ATTENUATION OF THE STRESS STIMULI
HABIT
EXCESSIVE PRODUCTION OF CORTISOL
DAMAGE IN HIPPOCAMPUS
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
IMMUNE SYSTEM

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THERMODYNAMIC SYSTEMS IN BIOLOGY
Life as a manifestation of the second law of thermodynamics [E.D. Schneider – J.J. Kay, 1994] 
The entropy of an isolated system far from the thermal equilibrium tends to increase over time, until the equilibrium is reached

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ISOLATED SYSTEM
Energy does not cross the boundary
of the system
Total energy of the system is
constant
CLOSED SYSTEM
Energy can cross the system boundary
Mass cannot cross the system bundary
NON ISOLATED SYSTEM
Energy can cross the system boundary
in a variety of ways
Total energy of the system
changes

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LIVING ORGANISM 
MACROSCOPIC QUANTUM SYSTEM
IN WHICH THE FLUCTUATIONS OF THE ELEMENTARY COMPONENTS ARE TUNED TOGETHER IN A GLOBAL MACROSCOPIC FLUCTUATION
COHERENCE
THE DEGREE OF COHERENCE IS THE MEASUREMENT PARAMETER FOR HEALTH STATUS

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ATTRACTOR
THE ATTRACTOR IS THE SET
OF VARIABLES THAT ADJUST
THE LIFE OF AN ORGANISM
ITS ULTIMATE FINALITY IS
THE PERPETUATING
OF THE LIFE OF THE
SYSTEM
TAI DU
Congenital Susceptibility
Latent Morbidity Force
in Embryonic Life

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HEALTH VECTOR
TO KEEP THE OPTIMAL CONDITIONS
LIFE DIRECTION
PREVENTION

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HEALING PROCESS 
COORDINATED ANSWER OF THE WHOLE SYSTEM
NEW ENERGY CONFIGURATION

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IT IS UNIQUE 
IT IS DIFFERENTIATE IN AN INFINITY OF TYPOLOGIES NECESSARY TO THE MANIFESTATION OF LIFE
BREATH * QI
BLOOD * XUE
ORGANIC FLUIDS * JIN YE
ORGANS * ZANG / FU

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WEI WU
THREE TREASURES
NATURE
JING
YIN
Form
Reproduction
Physicality QI
YIN/YANG
Intermediate Element
SHEN
YANG
Cosmic Dimension
Tao

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FUNCTIONAL GYMNASTICS
DIETETICS
HERBAL MEDICINE
TUI NA
MOXIBUSTION
ACUPUNCTURE

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MOTION
GV 3
GB 29
GB 31
GB 34
BL 62
BL 67
BL 61
GV 1
GV 9
GV 14
GV 16
GV 20
SI 10
LI 11
LU 7
SI 3
SI 1
TH 5
ZHI
CV 15

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MOTION
QI MAI
Yuan Qi
LIU JING
Yong Qi
JING JIN
Wei Qi

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FEEDING
唐 韓幹 照夜白圖 卷
Night Shining White
(Han Gan d.C.)

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19th ItVAS Study Day on Veterinary Acupuncture
PREVENTION IN TCM

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FUNCTIONAL GYMNASTICS
MOVE THE BODY – MOVE THE QI
FEEDING
TAKE THE FOOD – TAKE THE QI