Legal & Ethical Essentials in Acupuncture: Informed Consent, Boundaries, and Clinical Risk in Today’s Practice
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Sun Simiao’s Secret to Orthopedic Acupuncture
Sun Simiao, a 7th-century scholar-clinician and alchemist, introduced the concept of odd points, or Ashi points: locations of dysfunction that are not located on official channel pathways. Ashi points can be identified by visual observation and skilled palpation and are crucial in addressing treatment of musculoskeletal injuries. In this lecture, JulieAnn Nugent-Head will introduce the […]
Microsystem Toolbox: No Table Needed for Rapid, Effective, Scalable Care
Dr. Citkovitz will teach the rapid, effective approach to patient assessment and treatment that she uses in private and large-scale community acupuncture work. Once medical red flags are cleared, a majority of patients can be effectively assessed and needled in minutes, without a table, using a combination of three simple protocols and two microsystems. In microsystem triage, […]
Women’s Health: Effectively Treating Cysts and Fibroids with Chinese Medicine
Treating cysts and fibroids effectively means achieving clarity about why they manifested. Learning to ’see’ the qi and blood of our patients means knowing how to tailor treatment to each patient, then create a cohesive acupuncture and herbal formula strategy to effectively dissolve their cysts or fibroids. This lecture covers the understanding of cysts and […]
Face Reading and Mental Emotional/Spirit and Ghost Points
The shen, which resides in the heart, is seen primarily in the eyes, and is related to our ability to be fully conscious, think clearly, and understand our emotions. We need a healthy body for shen to reside comfortably. This class will explore the five spirits and the areas of the face related to imbalance […]
Friday Afternoon Qigong Exercises
Dao Dan Pai Qigong exercises are a series of standing exercises that harmonize and balance the major energy channels of the body. This series of exercises was first taught in the West by Taoist Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist monk from the Yellow Dragon Temple in the Lo Fo Shan mountains of Guangzhou, China. […]
Quick & Easy: Simple Formulas Anyone Can Use to Speed Healing of Orthopedic Injuries
Whether you’re an experienced herbalist, or a novice looking to do more than acupuncture for your physical injury patients, this talk can give you the confidence to speedily prescribe simple formulas to accelerate healing. Discover how to quickly differentiate between constitutional temperature and injury temperature, whether to break or consolidate blood, and whether qi needs […]
How to Achieve Profound Results in Highly Sensitive Patients
Sensitive patients often have serious and conflicting symptoms that can make differential diagnosis difficult, from non-healing sores and vomiting blood to seasonal mania. Navigating interactions with sensitive patients with extreme symptoms can be challenging. They may also respond poorly to acupuncture and herbal remedies, which can prevent or derail forward progress in treatment. With a […]
The Easiest Microsystems: Acupuncture and Self-Care for Quick and Lasting Change
Dr. Citkovitz will discuss why and how microsystems are particularly useful in today’s clinical practice and introduce the microsystems she uses the most in both private and large-scale community acupuncture work. Included will be specialized use of the Large Intestine channel on the hand and a brief overview of the Zhu scalp acupuncture system for clinical […]
Friday Morning Qigong Exercises
Dao Dan Pai Qigong exercises are a series of standing exercises that harmonize and balance the major energy channels of the body. This series of exercises was first taught in the West by Taoist Master Share K. Lew, a Taoist monk from the Yellow Dragon Temple in the Lo Fo Shan mountains of Guangzhou, China. […]
