ACCHS - Academy of Chinese Culture and Health Sciences

09/29/2025

Amazing In-Person CEUs @ ACCHS -

Register for these live, engaging, CEUs and walk away with more knowledge to use in your daily practice! (Classes in Oakland, CA.)

08/07/2025

ACCHS is proud to announce Advanced Diagnostic Studies.

INSTRUCTOR: Dr. Sydney Malawer

DATE & LOCATION:
12/5/2025, Friday: 9am-5:30pm

1600 Broadway, Oakland, CA, 2nd floor

CREDITS:
0.5 didactic / 7.5 hours (pending)

FORMAT: In-person

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course explores laboratory blood analysis from a CM lens, deepening students’ diagnostic competencies by integrating advanced concepts from both Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and biomedicine. Through complex case analysis, differential diagnosis, and structured clinical reasoning, students will refine their ability to assess patient presentations using multiple theoretical lenses, including the Five Phases, Six Conformations, and biomedical pathophysiology. Emphasis is placed on synthesizing signs, symptoms, and diagnostic tests to formulate accurate and holistic diagnoses. Students will also engage in critical review of diagnostic protocols and develop readiness for clinical board examinations and real-world patient care.

https://acchs.edu/all-events/ceu/advanced-diagnostic-studies/

08/07/2025

Holistic Micro+ Needling

Sunday, November 16, 2025
9:00am – 5:00pm

Location:

1600 Broadway, Oakland CA , 2nd Floor

Learn Micro+ Needling, a proprietary facial microneedling technique in person with Tori & Marla. Instruction includes hands-on training with the instructors and practice on your colleagues. Leave feeling confident to begin starting the services in your practice right away. Space is extremely limited to offer a personal experience.

You will learn the science behind skin remodeling and proprietary methods for remarkable results
You will receive a separate certificate from TOMA upon completion and be featured as a provider
You will earn 8 NCCAOM and CA Board PDAs (pending)
Give and receive a microneedling treatment after classroom lecture and demonstration
Tuition includes all required products and equipment – there are no hidden costs or required purchases.

Learn Micro+ Needling, a proprietary facial microneedling technique in person with Tori & Marla from TOMA. Instruction includes hands-on training with the instructors and practice on your colleagues. Leave feeling confident to begin starting the services in your practice right away. The one day earn...

08/07/2025

Advanced AcuGlow™ Facial Gua Sha and Cupping

Saturday, November 15, 2025
9:30am – 5:00pm
Space is extremely limited to offer a personal experience.

Location: 1600 Broadway, Oakland CA

Learn the AcuGlow™ , a proprietary facial gua sha and cupping technique in person with Tori & Marla. Instruction includes hands-on training with the instructors and practice on your colleagues. Leave feeling confident to begin starting the services in your practice right away. You’ll also receive the prerequisite online course upon registration which must be completed before the in person course.

You’ll learn proprietary protocols and get hand-on training that incorporates the tenets of Chinese Medicine rituals with facial gua sha and cupping
You will receive a separate certificate from TOMA upon completion and be featured as a provider
You will earn 7.5 NCCAOM and CAB PDAs (pending)

Give and receive the AcuGlow™ Treatment after classroom lecture and demonstration
Tuition includes all required products and equipment – there are no hidden costs or required purchases.

08/07/2025

ACCHS is proud to announce a four-day transformational workshop through the ancient wisdom & modern practice of Eastern Ash*tatsu.

INSTRUCTOR: Pei Ching Lu

DATE & LOCATION:

11/5~11/8/2025, Wednesday – Saturday: 9am-5:30pm

1600 Broadway, Oakland, CA. 94612, 2nd Floor

CREDITS:
CAB Category 1 (approved)
32 CEUs

FORMAT: IN PERSON

INTRODUCTION TO EASTERN ASHIATSU is a 4-day immersive healing arts course designed to transform students into practitioners through a fascinating blend of ancient wisdom and hands-on mastery, where they dive deep into the world of the Connective Tissue Lattice and the enigmatic San Jiao organ—armed with a comprehensive 108-page manual that becomes their sacred text for the journey. Students will have the opportunity of partnering to practice Hara activation techniques on each other, accurately locate the three Dan Tians (energy centers) through guided meditation and physical exploration, while mastering the ancient art of Ashiatsu—using their feet as precision healing instruments. This course will be interactive and multi-sensory providing details on how energy flows through the meridians, how the Hara complex governs vitality, and how ancient foot pressure techniques can unlock the body’s deepest healing potential, all while building a community of practitioners who learn through touch, observation, and shared experience.

08/07/2025

Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture

DATE & CREDIT HOURS:

10/25 ~ 10/26/2025, Sat – Sun, 9am-6:30pm
1600 Broadway, Oakland, CA. 94612, 2nd Floor

17 CEUs, CAB Category 1 (approved)

17 Type 1 category CA CEUs (approved)

FORMAT: IN PERSON

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Yamamoto New Scalp Acupuncture (YNSA) is named after the Japanese physician, Dr. Toshikatsu Yamamoto, who developed this acupuncture system in 1973. YNSA is used to treat neurological conditions, and is both effective and immediate in stroke patients with pain and/or restricted mobility. As a result, the use of YNSA has increased and has become the most frequently used form of acupuncture. YNSA comprises basic acupuncture points (somatopes) mainly on the scalp, as well as on other body regions. In addition to providing symptomatic relief, YNSA is sometimes curative. The workshop’s duration is 18 hours which is spread over two days, 9 hours/day. The workshop is an active learning workshop during which the participants will learn the YNSA macros stem acupuncture points, which were described by Yamamoto and which are currently used to effectively treat a wide range of neurological and orthopedic conditions. In the workshop, participants will learn and practice the location and indications of the four different needling groups of YNSA.

Course Objective:

At the end of the workshop, each participant will have an understanding of YNSA and acquire the basic skills to apply YNSA to a patient with acute or chronic pain or a neurological disease. This newly acquired skill should become part of the practitioner’s therapeutic tool box and stimulate the participant to expand his/her knowledge on the application of YNSA with other therapeutic modalities in other clinical settings.

https://acchs.edu/all-events/ceu/yamamoto-new-scalp-acupuncture/

08/07/2025

INSTRUCTOR: John Howard, L.Ac. Dipl.

DATE & CREDIT HOURS:
CAB Category 1, NCCAOM PDAs
10/18~10/19/2025, Sat – Sun, 9am-5:30pm

1600 Broadway, Oakland, CA94612, 2nd Floor

16 Type 1 CA CEUs Pending
16 PDA from NAACOM

FORMAT: IN PERSON

Battlefield Acupuncture is an Auricular Therapy (Ear acupuncture) protocol that was invented by Dr. Richard Niemtzow MD in 2001. He came up with the name Battlefield Acupuncture for the simple reason that it could be used on the battlefield when it was not advisable or desirable to use Western pain medications such as narcotics. The protocol uses up to 5 specific points on each ear and employs a specific type of auriculotherapy needle. It is used to treat all types of pain. It was so effective in the military that it was taught to civilians to use for non-military patients. Its popularity has taken off exponentially since its inception.

https://acchs.edu/all-events/ceu/battlefield-acupuncture/

08/07/2025

ACCHS is proud to announce Shanghan Lun: Formula Presentations II.

INSTRUCTOR: Daniel Eng, PhD

DATE & LOCATION:
9/6~9/7/2025, Saturday – Sunday: 9am-5:30pm

CREDITS:
1 didactic / 15 hours (pending)

FORMAT: Online

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course will cover Herb Presentations (Yao Zheng) and Formula Presentations (Fang Zheng) of Guizhi and Mahuang. Students will learn the physical and emotional characteristics, as well as the tendencies and signs and symptoms that relate to these herbs and to the following formulas: Guizhi Tang, Guizhi Jia Longgu Muli Tang, Xiao Jianzhong Tang, Danggui Sini Tang, Wenjing Tang, Ling Gui Zhu Gan Tang, Mahuang Tang, Ma Xing Shi Gan Tang, Yue Bi Tang, Xiao Qinglong Tang and Da Qinglong Tang.

https://acchs.edu/all-events/ceu/shanghan-lun-formula-presentations-ii/

09/19/2024

Daniel Eng and I met up on the way to Shen Zhen for the 2024 Jing Fang International Conference. We have the honor of joining old friends Eran Even, Mark Gearing and Salustino Z. Wong in taking part in what looks to be an amazing weekend of talks on the use of Classical Formulas. The digs aren’t too shabby!

08/14/2024

The Early Bird pricing for Joshua Margolis, LAc' October class ends tomorrow!

If you're an acupuncturist, and you treat people who have spines, I highly recommend you join us!

This course will teach students how to identify, assess and treat segmental facilitation. Specifically, students will learn how to assess spinal motion dysfunction in the cervical, thoracic, lumbar and sacral regions, and […]

06/13/2024

I'm chatting with DAOM students right now about correlations between Saam Acupuncture and Classical Formulas (Jing Fang).

It's great preparation, as I'll be presenting on this topic next month (Saturday, July 27th) in Qiological's course series on Saam Acupuncture.

  Learning the basics of promoting or controlling the flow of qi through the Five Phases is an elemental part of every acupuncturist's training. We learn how the antique points can be used to nudge a response or invite a different kind of resonance into a patient's life. The Korean Saam acupuncture...

04/16/2024

Shout out to Dr. Henry McCann.

I opened an email with the title: "unsolicited feedback on Henry's class"

When I read a first line like this, there's a brief moment where I brace myself for what may come next. You can't please everyone all the time, and even with the amazing teachers who choose to be a part of the ACCHS DAOM program, I try to always be prepared to understand and manage constructive criticism.

But in this case, the bracing was entirely unnecessary.

"Just want to offer some unsolicited feedback on Henry's class. It f**king ruled. One of the very best CM classes I've taken in almost ten years of schooling. He's an excellent teacher who conveys information simply, clearly, and in a very easy-to-understand way. I'd love to take more classes with him at ACCHS in the future."

This is the type of feedback that reminds me what it was like to learn from these teachers for the first time, and it makes my day.

Thanks Henry! And see you soon :-)