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Opening to the Source - Li Shizhen's Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels in Clinical Practice

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Title: Opening to the Source - Li Shizhen's Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels in Clinical Practice
Type: Seminar
Cost: 670
Earlybird Cost: 575 - If you register before Jan 20, 2012
C.E.P: 7
Acupuncture
Herbal Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Charles Chace
Charles (Chip) Chace is a graduate of the New England School of
Acupuncture (1984). He maintains a highly successful clinical
practice in Boulder, Colorado and he is a faculty member at the
Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine where he teaches both
acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine.
Chip has been studying Chinese Medicine and palpation based
forms of acupuncture for over 25 years and is thus, uniquely
positioned to teach these workshops. Complementing this is
Chip’s longstanding interest in the palpatory techniques of cranial
osteopathy and their adaptation to acupuncture.
In addition, Chip is a committed student of Classical Chinese
literature. He has published extensively on the application of
pre-modern Chinese medical ideas to modern clinical practice in
the West.
Li Shizhen’s Exposition on the Eight Extraordinary Vessels
(Qijing baimai kao, c. 1576) is the seminal work on the
extraordinary vessels, combining discussions of
acupuncture, herbal medicine and internal alchemy.
Although it is widely cited in other sources, it is rarely
considered on its own merits. Over the centuries much has
been written about the extraordinary vessels, what they do
and how to use them.
This workshop will allow you to experience these vessels in
a practical manner. The palpatory techniques presented in
this training provide an invaluable bridge between an arcane
aspect of medical literature and their concrete application in
clinical practice.
A central premise of the text is that, to hope to realize the
extraordinary vessels’ full therapeutic potential, physicians
must have some understanding of theiral chemical aspects.
From Li’s perspective, this hinges on the skillful use of
attentive stillness. The palpatory techniques presented in
this training are rooted in this very same appreciation for
stillness.
You will receive hands-on instruction in the following:
- An overview of Li Shi Zhen’s text and other material
- on the extraordinary vessels
- Channel listening, quality of contact, extraordinary
- vessel pulse diagnosis
- Manual thermal diagnosis
- Cranial rhythmic impulse
- Fluids and fluid tides
- General and local listening techniques
- Precision in point location
- Refinement in needle technique using both contact
needling and insertion techniques
- Extraordinary Vessel Meditation Set

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