04/19/2024
This class serves as a practical review of foundational theory, acupuncture, and herbal medicine in conjunction with clinical application. The goal is to help participants better utilize and engrain their Chinese medicine knowledge clinically.
Participants will apprentice under supervision of licensed practitioners of Acupuncture and/or Oriental Medicine, assisting in actual treatment of patients upon which there will be review and application of the course subjects. The patients will be informed prior and sign a form permitting participants to administer needling, diagnosis, and prescription of herbal medicines. Participants will have a total of 32 supervised appointments, in which their attendance will be recorded. Participants will notate treatments under the standard Subjective, Objective, Assessment, and Plan scheme. Our practitioners will compare student notes with their own records and discuss the sessions. Every 8 appointments will get 1 discussion session.
There are several topics under the Live-Training Course that are differentiated by level of knowledge. Here are general list of subjects that will be reviewed per course:
Foundations
- Five Phases
- Organ-Channel Diagnosis
- 6 Evil
- Miscellaneous Causes of Disease
- 7 taxations
- 7 affects
- 27 pulses, depth, speed, shape, rhythm, quality, strength, size
- Tongue diagnosis, body, coat, wetness, color, size, shape
Acupuncture
- Point location, selection, and categories
- Bloodletting
- Traditional Chinese Needling techniques
- Appropriate needling angle and depth according to point, anatomical region, and disease specificity
- Channels, collaterals, and sinew channels needled
Herbal medicine
Single herbs, Dui Yaos, Formulas, Modifications, Topicals, Auxillary modalities
These modalities can be administered upon practitioner’s approval based on evaluation of the patient:
Cupping, Guasha, Tui na Techniques and application according to diagnosis, Moxabustion
Classical Chinese medicine
6-channel conformations (Liu Jing) and Cold-Damage and Formula prescriptions
Spiritual Pivot (Ling Shu) needling techniques and disease/channel diagnosis.
Jing-kui Yaolue Miscellaneous Diseases and Treatment
Advanced pulse diagnosis (Suwen, Lingshu, Nanjing, Shanghan Lun)
Additional to these subjects, practitioners may also offer their own unique diagnostic and treatment methods at their own discretion.
