Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Acurea USA
Prescribing Custom Supplements with the Shen Nong Ben Cao
As increasing numbers of the population turn to supplements
and superfoods, it is the role of Chinese medicine to educate the
public that no single substance is miraculous for every person.
In this brief discussion, JulieAnn Nugent-Head discusses how
the Shen Nong Ben Cao guides us to understand more than a
hundred herbs deemed safe to be taken in large doses and for
long periods of time without harm. Combining classical herbal
theory with individualized diagnosis, practitioners can devise
custom herbal teas for health and longevity.
Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: Blue Poppy
Essential Oils for the Acupuncture Practice
Learn effective, safe treatment techniques for treatment with essential oils in an acupuncture practice. Holmes will cover the theory and practice of concurrent use of acupuncture and aroma acupoints, the principles of matching essential oils with acupuncture points, and the necessity of selecting oils with Chinese medicine-based theory in mind.
Exclusive Exhibitor Presentation: The Academy of Advanced Cosmetic Facial Acupuncture
Chinese Gynecology: Returning to the Roots
Gynecology is one of the crown jewels of traditional Chinese medicine. Wilms will discuss its key concepts as explained in roughly thousand-year-old Chinese medical literature, contrasting them with popular Western, biomedical, and even TCM perspectives. Learn to see the healthy female body as a complex system of personal, social, and cosmic forces affecting the flow and balance of qi and blood, expressing itself in adulthood through cycles of bleeding in resonance with the moon, or with conception, pregnancy, birth, and lactation. Chinese medicine practitioners are in a unique position to support this process, from menarche to menopause and beyond.
Ted Kaptchuk Interview with Holly Guzman
Students will gain an understanding of the development of TCM in modern times and China’s role in fostering Chinese medicine globally. Issues related to how Japanese and Korean traditional medicine and U.S. developments like integrative medicine interact with China’s agenda will be raised. Students will become familiar with the World Health Organization’s (W.H.O.) insertion of a chapter on Chinese medicine in the International Classification of Disease (ICD-11). Beijing’s recent proposal to make defaming Chinese medicine a crime will also be discussed.
