212 Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen
Acupuncture Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced and complex in others. Feeling and interpreting a patient’s pulse is only one facet of clinical interaction. A practitioner has...
211 Chinese Medicine in South America • Rodrigo Aranda
Acupuncture Life has a way of nudging us in different directions. Some find inspiration in life-changing events; others in the smallest of things. But whichever path we take, we all have stories of how we got to do what we do. In this discussion with Rodrigo Aranda, we not only...
210 Sitting in the Fire- Ethics, Presence and Connection • Seanna Sifflet
Cultivation How we are with ourselves affects how we are with patients. Our own difficulties in life can assist us in helping others, but it requires that we are able to come to a sense of neutrality with those traumas of the past. In this conversation with Seanna Sifflet we...
209 Autoimmune Disease Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine Physiology • Bryan McMahon
Herbal Medicine Successful treatment of autoimmune conditions depends on accurate assessment of the spectrum of excess and deficiency. When excess activity is at the fore, calm the wind and clear heat without damaging the vital; when deficiency is more pronounced, tonify the vital...
208 On Having a Successful, Resonant and Enjoyable Professional Life • Eric Grey
Cultivation Community is something we often talk about, and yet it is not easily defined. Our practices include not just us and our business, but the ecosystems of commerce, profession, and location. In this conversation with Eric Grey with touch on how our profession is...
207 Developing Medicinal Intuition • Wendie Colter
Cultivation How often do you pay attention to your intuitive abilities in practice or in life? Intuition is more than a feeling. Medical intuition gives us the ability to make a diagnosis without physical examination, tests, or history. It’s when you tap into the patient’s energy...
206 Bian Que- Myth, Magic and Method • Shelley Ochs
Acupuncture Much of our medicine is shrouded in myth, and one of the obscure, but persistent figures is that of Bian Que, the bird-headed healer first associated with the use of stone needles. In this conversation with Shelley Ochs we discuss her Ph.D dissertation on this mythic...
Qiological Audio Journal, Summer 2021 • QAJ001
Acupuncture Welcome to the first Qiological Audio Journal. The audio journal is a collection of interviews, discussions, clinical cases that help to illuminate the classics, book reviews, some business acumen and practical clinical skills to keep up your sleeve. The audio journal...
204 Chinese Medicine Perspectives on Sleep • Damiana Corca
Acupuncture Slipping into sleep. It’s the simplest thing to do. Or the most difficult. The quietude of sleep is a reflection of the activity in our lives. And if that cycle wobbles with an imbalance, it can be difficult to correct. In this discussion with Damiana Corca we explore...
203 Getting Down to Business • Laura Christensen
The practice of practice Do you know the costs that go into creating the opportunity for a patient to lay on your table? Do you know how much you’re paying yourself? Have you built a profit into your business? We all know that word of mouth is the best form of marketing, but have you...
202 The Art of Negotiation— paradigm shift of interaction in the clinic • Margot Rossi & Nick Pole
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201 fMRI: The Patient-Acupuncturist Relationship • Vitaly Napadow
Cultivation Any seasoned practitioner leans on the patient practitioner relationship. There is something in the interaction that cannot be separated from the response they have to our treatment. In this conversation with Vitaly Napadow we discuss the Art of Medicine and how...
200 Learning From Mentors • Denise Hung
Cultivation Learning medicine requires books, memorization , and knowledge. But knowledge without practice is useless. It is through the clinical encounter with patients that the principals come to life and the medicine goes from theory to living practice. In this 200th episode...199 Mind, Matter, Medicine and Skeptical Inquiry • Ben Hawes
Acupuncture Our job in clinic is to help people both through knowing what treatment to provide and having the ability to discern how to help when the signs are not clear. We constantly dance with both knowing and not-knowing. In this conversation with Ben Hawes we discuss how the...
198 Reflections and Significance of Case Reports • Edward Chiu
Acupuncture The ancient Chinese were not the only people to observe nature and develop medicine in the service of relieving suffering and promoting health. But they were the only culture that wrote it down and managed through the centuries to preserve significant portions of it....
197 Divergent Perspectives on Conversing with the Channels • David Euler
Acupuncture In nature we see that rivers have a flow and shape, but in times of flooding or if there are obstructions they will find other ways to move their water downstream. The divergent channels can be seen as a channel phenomenon that allows the main channels to deal with...
196 Reflections on Yin • Brodie Welch
Cultivation Attending to yin in a world that preferences yang does not come easy, and perhaps only begins to catch our attention once we’ve reached the edge of what activity can sustain. In this conversation with Brodie Welch we look at how sometimes subtracting counterintuitive...
The Herbal Methods of Dr Jiang Tong — Bonus Episode
Herbal Medicine This is a solo show where Michael shares the methods and formulas his teacher in Taiwan, Dr. Jiang Tong, used in the treatment respiratory illness. Here are two articles written by Dr. Jiang that Michael translated for The Lantern, that detail his thinking and...