A traditional Chinese medicine teacher teaches that good health is a result of a free flowing, well-balanced energy system. It is believed that regular practice of Qi Gong helps cleanse the body of toxins, restores energy, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps individuals maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. These exercises will enable to participant to have a better perception of their own qi flow and to use these exercises for helping patients with chronic back pain and qi deficiency.
The attendees will be taught Qi Gong to develop an awareness of qi sensations (energy) in their body and use their mind to guide the Qi. As the practitioners achieve a sufficient skill lever, they can direct or emit external Qi for the purpose of healing others. Selections will be from the deer, tiger and bear forms. This course will enable practitioners to pass along these techniques to their patients so that they are capacble of taking a more active role in their own healthcare, especially for disease prevention.
9:00 am - 12 noon
Restoration Track with Richard Gold -
Traditional Thai Style Deep Abdominal Therapy
3 CEUs/PDAs General Credit
The balanced functioning of the abdominal organs of digestion, assimilation and elimination are crucial for the maintenance of health and vitality and the recovery from disease. In addition, practitioners can utilize the abdominal region diagnostically with palpation to learn more about the condition of their clients. This restoration seminar is dedicated to the enhancement of abdominal functioning. Utilizing techniques from Traditional Thai Medical Massage, the participants will learn a specific protocol for treatment of the abdomen. In addition to specific techniques directed on the abdomen, distal locations will also be addressed.
The face is a hologram conveying the blueprint of the body. In this lecture, participants will discover how the face shows specific signs about health. The focus of this talk will be on giving acupuncturists additional clues for diagnosis that are readily understood, remarkably accurate and easily validated. The features and markings of the face will be grouped and correlated to the major organs and their current function. Special attention will be given to signs of disease and illness and the shen of the skin.
9:55 am - 10:45 am
Bob Flaws - The Issue of Timing in the American Practice of Acupuncture
1 CEU/PDA
General Credit
In this talk, Bob Flaws will explore the history of the once-per-week acupuncture treatment in Europe and North America and compare this to the standard of care for acupuncture in Asia and especially China. Based on this, Bob will suggest a clinically more effective timing regimen and then explain exactly how to make such a regimen financially viable for both the patient and the practioner.
11:10 am - 12 noon
Ted Kaptchuk - Cinammon Twig Soup and Sleeping with Ghosts
1 CEU/PDA Herbs Credit
An examination of Cinnamon Twig Soup in the Shang Han Lun and other early Chinese medicine classics. An examination of issues of succubus and incubus sexuality and cinnamon twig soup. Applications to modern times. Formula modifications.
A traditional Chinese medicine tenet teaches that good health is a result of a free flowing, well-balanced energy system. It is believed that regular practice of Qi Gong helps cleanse the body of toxins, restores energy, reduces stress and anxiety, and helps individuals maintain a healthy and active lifestyle. This course will enable practitioners to pass along these techniques to their patients, which will be capable of taking a more active role in their own healthcare, especially for disease prevention and wellness.
Facial Diagnosis may be one of the oldest diagnostic techniques in Chinese Medicine. Originally used as a means of accessing information about the health without palpation, the myriad clues on the face give direct, non invasive access to the body’s well-being and function. This three hour workshop will explore the extraordinary meridians of the face and their mysterious affect on health. Participants will also be given the most important health aspects of the facial map that will assist them in their ability to recognize the formation and underlay of disease. Practitioners will also learn detailed information from the face about the major and secondary organs that will help them treat their patients with more accuracy and with more depth of understanding.
In this class, Bob will share his personal list of halleluyah symptoms. These are the few signs and symptoms within Chinese medicine which only have a single disease mechanism and, therefore, always reliably indicate the presence of a particular pattern. Knowing these symptoms and what mean can make the diagnostic process within Chinese medicine simpler and more efficient. This class is a distillation of Bob’s 30 years of clinical and teaching experience.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Ted Kaptchuk - Thinking in the Spleen Universe of Herbs
3 CEUs/PDAs Herbs Credit
The psychosocial implications of the Spleen organ will be discussed. Common individual herbs and formulas will also be covered. An emphasis will be on Chinese herbal medicine relates to psychosocial issues. Questions of how representative formulas are selected will be encountered. Discussion of why dosage is the most difficult issue in Chinese herbal medicine and not simply something that one needs to memorize. Finally, some connections to the other meridians will be discussed including the heart.
The attendee will be presented with the most recent research in placebo acupuncture. Questions to be addressed include: What does placebo acupuncture have to do with real acupuncture? How are they different and the same? Why would acupuncturists want to know about placebo acupuncture? What are the implications about the epidemiology of knowledge from recent experiments? Who is telling the truth?
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Richard Gold - Fibromyalgia and Depression: Understanding and Treatment
3 CEUs/PDAs
General Credit
Increasingly, practitioners of TCM are confronted with patients that have been diagnosed by their Western physicians as being depressed, having Fibromyalgia and/or a combination of both. In this course, participants will learn in detail how these two diagnostic categories are understood in the Western paradigm and in the TCM paradigm. Seminar attendees will learn to understand these two areas of illness , their underlying causes and their inter-relationship. Information will be taught regarding the Western approaches to treating these diseases. Attendees will learn specific treatment approaches in TCM in order to alleviate the symptoms and suffering associated with depression and Fibromyalgia.
2:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Belinda "Beau" Anderson - Acupuncture and IVF: How to Understand the Research and Effectively Treat Your Patients
3 CEUs/PDAs General Credit
Female infertility is on the rise in the US. The past few decades have seen considerable progress and innovation with western medical procedures for over coming infertility, especially in vitro fertilization (IVF). Many women undergoing fertility treatments also seek complementary and alternative integrative medical approaches to this problem. Due to the research supporting the use of acupuncture, this therapy is one of the most popular, and Oriental medicine practitioners have seen an increase in this patient population in their practices. Treating this population requires knowledge of both eastern and western approaches to treating infertility, detailed understanding of the IVF procedure, and how to apply the research to clinical practice. This workshop will focus on these topics.
