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Kidney essence is precious and not easily replenished. This Shop Talk segment discusses how the Kidney needs material form to create essence. And that it is the Yangming channels with their yang action that help the digestive system to extract the clear qi from food and fluids, and this in turn becomes the material that can transform into essence.
This is a simple and effective set of points for burn out or exhaustion and they lean on the dynamic of transform, rather than simply tonifying the Kidney itself.
Golden Flower Chinese Herbs also offers herbal formulations for these conditions and many more. Visit them at www.gfcherbs.com.
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This Shop Talk is a discussion of the differences between the Zangfu organ system and that of the Jingluo.
A brief history is given, as are mentions of the differing relationships between the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches with regard to the Zangfu organs and Jingluo channels.
An example of this is that the internal Zangfu organ Lung is attributed to Metal; whereas the Hand Taiyin Lung channel is attributed to Yang Wood. The differing Five Phase natures of the internal Zangfu organs and the more external Jingluo system, is actually a clear reflection of their different anatomical functions in regard to the overall Chinese Medicine anatomy of the human body. That is to say, the internal organs are the body's way of assimilating and storing, whereas the Jingluo system is one that enables a discrete individual to maintain a dynamically homeostatic state in the context of a greater external environment, an environment which varies along the number of different parameters.
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In this Shop Talk segment John Scott the co-founder of Golden Flower Chinese Herbs discusses the use of Hua Tou points for the treatment of shingles. Additionally, how these points are useful for lower jiao issues like increasing male fertility and for prostate issues.
Golden Flower Chinese Herbs also offers herbal formulations for these conditions and many more. Visit them at www.gfcherbs.com.
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In this Shop Talk Michael Max reflects on 25 years of practice and the importance of running a business as a cultivative practice.
We go into the importance not of âfaking it till you make it,â but rather using the learning of the early days to better hone your skills and more thoroughly understand who you are, and what your ideal practice really looks like.
Additionally we explore the issues of money and authority, and rather see these as hindrances, they are actually valuable teachers that both help us to be better practitioners and more honest and reliable business people.
The trick, if there is a trick, is not to rely on someone elseâs blueprint or master plan, but instead discover your own source code.
Business. Itâs not something we have to do, itâs something we have the privilege of engaging.
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In this Shop Talk Jason Robertson discusses the importance of putting your hands on your patients heads to understand where physically the points actually are located.
He draws from his experience with Dr Wang Ju-Yi in discussing how points are âjieâ which you can think of as junctions or spaces, theyâre notable by the way they feel. And this isnât just for points on the head, but through the body. Itâs helpful to put your hands on people and let the body tell you where the point is located.
Dr. Wang had a special affinity for DU19 and DU21 and how they can be used for treating back pain and for issues that result from a failure of the clear yang to ascend.
Clear diagnosis is the key to effective treatment and putting your hands on people both as a diagnostic and to find the most potent points is a practice that will serve you well in the clinic.
You can find out more about Jasonâs work at www.channelpalpation.org
And sign up for his hands on course in Chicago September 16, 2023
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Leta Herman, co-founder of the Alchemy Learning Center, shares her insights into the world of the Thirteen Ghost Points, a mystical aspect of acupuncture that she has been practicing for almost two decades. These points, often overlooked or misunderstood, hold transformative potential but require a level of practitioner self-cultivation before their full power can be harnessed.
Leta emphasizes that the Ghost Points act as liberators, clearing out accumulated emotional baggage and releasing stuck patterns, making them particularly valuable in our modern world. She advocates for a patient-centered approach, recommending starting with a few Ghost Points in a one-hour session to avoid overwhelming reactions, using a unique vibrating technique that can be needle-based or non-needle-based.
Leta's approach involves bearing witness to the patient's experience and facilitating their transformative journey, making the Ghost Points a powerful tool for both personal growth and clinical practice.
Learn more about Leta's classes at AlchemyLearningCenter.com.
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Join Leta Herman as she shares her perspective on why Chaotic Energy treatments (also known as Aggressive Energy) are so helpful in today's fast paced, modern world.
In the past 20 years, Leta has witnessed a significant rise in CE due to increased world-wide stress, smartphones, wearables and a constant media exposure. Chaotic Energy spreads through the Ke cycle, affecting multiple organ systems and even contributing to severe illness.
Symptoms of CE include mild to severe emotional agitations, anxieties, and physical discomfortsâall related to Wei Qi circulation.
In this ShopTalk, Leta describes how to treat CE with needles and with her own unique non-needling techniques. Treating CE has led to amazing results, from alleviating panic attacks to helping transform more severe illness as well as easing some of the more day-to-day stresses for many clients.
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How and why could learning classical Chinese make you a better clinician? Here are a couple of possible reasons: Reading the Chinese medicine classics directly, instead of modern textbooks about them, facilitates a more direct and hence authentic transmission, thereby giving you maximum clarity and efficacy through precise diagnosis and treatments rooted in the Chinese medicine paradigm.
It enriches your medical vocabulary by introducing you to concepts that simply donât exist in Western languages or the biomedical paradigm, such as âTriple Burnerâ or âGate of Life,â âBi impediment syndrome,â or even Qi and Yin/Yang. By providing access to untranslated highly specialized information, it is certain to blow your mind and expand your tool chest.
Last, but definitely not least, however, reading the classics will invariably remind you why you chose this path in the first place, rekindling your love for the Dao, reinspiring you and creating a space for not just professional but also personal cultivation, and for promoting virtue inside you, your community, and your patients. Emphasizing the lofty ideal of âharmonizing heaven and earth,â the classics call on us to practice Medicine with a capital M.
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In this Shop Talk Iâll be sharing three reasons why I practice Sasang Medicine.
Reason #1 Food first
The condition of the constitution always affects treatment outcome, prevention, overall health and longevity.
People vary in their balance and do not inherently all have strong constitutions. People need to nourish their weakness and not feed what is already too strong.
Eating all 5 tastes equally balances your plate; not you!
Example 1: someone with half their energy in the liver, will make their imbalance worse by eating any liver-building food at all
Example 2: So-yang person eating a healthy diet for 70% of the population. Gets sick because they are not part of the 70%.
Reason #2 Western medical research assumptions
Clinical trials are statistical, what percentage get a positive outcome.
The n-value, the number of people in the trial is a homogenous group because of inclusion/exclusion criteria. What does the data ALWAYS show?
The mind has an effect on the body
The data proves the premise that the group is homogenous is wrong
The real problem is, if enough people have a good outcome and the bad stuff isnât too bad, it is prescribed for everyone. Yet, the data does not support doing this.
In Korea, clinical trials are conducted putting subjects in their constitutional groups to see if there are correlations between outcomes and constitution. They typically are, and there are lots of studies showing correlations between constitution and certain genetic markers.
Reason #3 Food helps
Iâve been practicing prescribing diets for people for over 20 years. Almost every single person who follows their constitutional diet has improvements in their health.
Of course there is much more to say about Korean Sasang Medicine and you can read more about it on my website, QiBalance.net.
You also can sign-up for my Diagnosis Mentorship Program starting August 5th.
But if youâre not ready for that, you can experience Sasang by ordering a dietary analysis for yourself. Or send your very sick patients who need support with their treatments for an analysis.
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In this shoptalk on self-cultivation, Chris Shelton his perspective on the world of Qigong and its profound healing powers. Leaning on his experience of having Qigong profoundly change his life, he shares his practice that unites movement, breath, and mind-focus to harness the body's innate ability to heal.
Chris explains how Qigong promotes the harmonious flow of qi, and addresses imbalances and blockages that lead to physical and emotional ailments. He highlights its transformative effect on stress reduction, chronic pain relief, and emotional well-being, making it indispensable for modern-day living.
Chris showcases remarkable healing stories achieved through consistent Qigong practice. From alleviating anxiety and depression to supporting chronic illness recovery, the evidence speaks for itself about Qigong's profound effects.
Additionally, Chris shares how the LAPD and other law enforcement agencies are using these ancient practices in their work.
Explore Qigong's transformative capability by joining Chris for the Holistic Healthcare Provider Masterclass, which will give you tools to prevent burnout and grow your practice, (CA Acupuncture CEUs available), August 1-4. Go to qigongteachertraining.com to register today.
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In the initial descriptions of Chinese medicine set down in the Huangdi Neijing, acupuncture was described as a traditional form of ecological surgery.
Its primary aim was to restore the natural watersheds of the body by regulating the flow of the blood circulating through these regions. These writings compare the vascular rivers of the body to rivers in nature, understanding them to be formed by the same basic forces and patterns of nature.
Similar to rivers in nature, the flow qualities of the vascular rivers display different seasonal variations or âtides'. We assess these seasonal tides in the pulse qualities of the major blood vessels of the body. This allows us to synchronize the bodies of our patients with the seasonal patterns of nature.
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Medicine and Bazi belong to the 5 Arts of Chinese metaphysics. All 5 Arts use the basic principles of Taoist philosophy.
The Bazi belongs to the Life Arts and is called The Pillars of Destiny. The 4 pillars are, the year, the month, the day and the hour.
The upper half of the chart is the 10 Heavenly Stems. The 5 Elements doubled as yin and yang, much like the organ pairs in Medicine but more the elements in Nature.
The lower half of the chart is the 12 Earthly Branches. The extra two characters come from one of the Elements being doubled. But this is where thereâs a difference between the Bazi and Medicine.
With medicine, we are looking at the meridians and here youâll notice the Fire is doubled with Imperial and Ministerial Fire. Here the focus is the Shen of heaven in its earthly manifestation.
With the Bazi, the focus is on the Solar/Lunar calendar that starts around February 4. Itâs an extremely accurate calendar that tracks time, place, cycles of the seasons and rhythms of the Earth. Which is placed in the center and allows us to track not just the seasons, but how qi comes back to the Earth in between each season.
This is a much more sophisticated and detailed calendar than the common Gregorian Solar calendar. Which helps you to understand why sometimes in whatâs considered Summer, it might feel like Fall.
Learn more about Tracyâs offerings at qibalance.net.
Where you can sign up for her Mentorship Program starting on August 5, 2023. Or order your dietary analysis, or send your patients for one.
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In this Shoptalk, I will be sharing with you some critical advice regarding safety when needling GB 21 and the upper trapezius region generally.
My advice comes from having served as an expert witness on a half-dozen cases in which well-intentioned and experienced acupuncturists, trained according to the current standards of the profession, nevertheless caused pneumothorax injuriesâone of them fatal.
Whatâs an expert witness? A neutral professional who reviews evidence and renders opinions in a court proceeding as to whether the acupuncturistsâ care was up to standards of the professionâand if not, whether the substandard practice contributed to injuries, pain and suffering. Reviewing these cases has caused me to question some commonly-taught, widely-practiced, but unsafe techniques, and in my own practice, replace them with needle angles, lengths and depths, as well as screening protocols for risk factors, and other techniques that are much better at preventing pneumothoraxes, and yet just as clinically effectiveâif not more.
Unfortunately, itâs not just dry needlers who cause pneumothoraxes, but they are avoidable. Tune in to learn more!
And visit the Qiological website for more resources and videos from Anthony.
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In this Shop Talk segment we cover important questions to ask you male patientâs when they come to you presenting with such common issues as ED, PE, BPH and Prostatitis! For a more in-depth understanding on common menâs health conditions you can take one of my courses
Information on my upcoming courses will be announced on my blog at: https://whole-healthacupuncture.com/blog. Currently, I have date 10/7/23 set for my course on BPH & How to Successfully Treat It Using TCM Principles. You can find information on how to sign-up through my blog listed above or by connecting with me directly. I also offer consultations services and am always open to just talk to other practitioners about this subject, of which Iâm so passionate about! You can contact me directly at any time at: [email protected].
I absolutely love talking and educating on menâs health so reach out anytime! Thank you for listening!
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In this Shop Talk Chloe discusses key basics of hemp, cannabis and CBD that will help you as a practitioner of Chinese herbal medicine to consider how you can engage using these medicinals in your clinical work.
She starts with the historical uses and ends with how this medicinal has been helpful for her in caring for son and lead her to creating Radical Roots. Along the way youâll find out the differences between hemp and marijuana. The differences between CBD and THC, especially in regard to the endogenous cannabinoid system.
Finally she goes into something every herbalist is concerned about; extraction methods and quality control.
Visit www.radicalrootsherbs.com to learn more about her products or connect with Chloe about using these medicinals in your clinical work.
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In this episode of Shop Talk weâre exploring cultivation as it relates to the business of acupuncture. As practitioners, we often hear about the importance of cultivation as essential for our personal and professional growth. But too often we gloss over the cultivative aspect of running a business.
In this short talk weâll explore the potential of how running a business can make us a more well rounded practitioner. And additionally discuss how managing the business of our practice serves as a powerful tool for self-accountability, shedding light on our blind spots, fears, and areas of discomfort. Running a business is not merely a sideline endeavor but an integrated aspect of our clinical work. In short, itâs an illusion that business and medicine are separate entities.
Listen in to challenge your common assumptions, ignite introspection, and gain practical insights for integrating the cultivation of self, business, and medicine. By embracing and addressing the obstacles we create for ourselves, itâs possible to unlock new dimensions of success and provide better care to our patients.
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Iâm Anthony Von der Muhll, and in this Shoptalk, I will be sharing with you one of my most useful go-to techniques for treating chronic musculoskeletal pain and disability: needling into joint and ligamentous tissues.
This is an ancient technique with modern applications that is quite safe, well-tolerated, and works rapidly and effectively for long-lasting improvements in function, not just of joints but also the muscles, tendons and nerves that cross them.
When I started using this technique about 15 years ago, my success rates went way up, and the time and number of treatments required for lasting outcomes went way down, even for chronic and complex cases that I had found previously very challenging.
Although this technique was not taught in any of the Masters or Doctorate classes that I attended, with some very basic review of joint anatomy, I found it is quite simple and easy to learn, and even to teach oneself. Tune in to learn more!
Here are links to Anthony's course on Joint Stabilization and Mobilization Needling and his full list of On Demand Courses with CEU's.
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In this Shop Talk presentation Jeffrey Dann discusses the importance of palpation as part of the assessment and treatment of patients. He emphasizes the importance of relying on our hands to improve our palpatory skills which in turn help to deepen our understanding of the physical body.
In this presentation he focuses, as an example, on the Yuan Source point Kidney Three, and takes us through the process of palpating for blood, qi, nerves and fluids. And then suggests ways to intervene using acupuncture, moxibustion and gentle bodywork.
Jeffreyâs long experience as a practitioner and his study of various palpatory modalities gives him a unique perspective on directly sensing into the body using our hands. Not only does this aid with diagnosis, but it also gives us a way to see how our interventions are being received by the body.
He and Mark Petrusi are offering a three day class in Qi, Blood and Fluids in Honolulu Hawaii. Youâll find more information here.
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In this Shop Talk we hear about a surprisingly effective use of the Tung point San Cha San, which she discovered when she treated herself for a head cold.
San Cha San is easily accessed as itâs located along the Triple Burner channel, and is reached by sliding a needle in between the fourth and fifth metacarpals. So it is a point you can readily add to your treatments
Additionally Renee covers the uses of sister points, San Cha Yi and San Cha Er and how they are useful for back pain.
Itâs helpful to use ourselves as white mice to learn more about acupuncture, and youâll enjoy hearing about Reneeâs discoveries in this Shop Talk.
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Todayâs Shop Talk is an invitation to acupuncturists to recognize the power and potential of our medicine. And committing ourselves to making a difference in the delivery of healthcare in our country, by choosing the communities we want to make a difference in, and using our imagination and heart to create new models of delivery.
Education and the use of the Internet are tools we can make better use of. We most likely will need to step out of our comfort zone, but that is where real progress becomes possible.
Need someone to bounce ideas off of, or gin up your motivation? Chloeâs here for that!
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