159 Voices of Our Medical Ancestors- Using the classic texts in modern practice • Leo Lok
Acupuncture We give a great amount of respect to the Classics in Chinese medicine, but understanding these foundational texts of our medicine can be challenge, even if you do understand the old form of Chinese. Just as many of struggle to get through the brilliance of...
158 Listening, Non-doing and Appreciative Attention • Alice Whieldon
Cultivation Medicine is a curious business. The “agreement” is that the patient has a problem and we as practitioners are going to fix it. It’s not an unreasonable expectation in our fee for service world. And after all, we are the experts that are supposed to know how to resolve...
157 Practicing Acupuncture in Rural America • Barbara Bittinger
Acupuncture Nothing new about city and rural life being very different. But what about when it comes to having an acupuncture practice? What’s it like to practice to practice away from the bustle of big city? Are country folk really that different from city slickers? And what...
156 Magic and Emergence- Treating Teenagers • Rebecca Avern
Acupuncture Can you remember in those first couple of years of puberty when your senses began to quicken and a new world began to open up and you started to question your place in the unfolding this world? Adolescence is a glorious and often troublesome ripening and as with so...
Unceasing Inquiry • Richard Hammerschlag
Qiologician Podcasts Unceasing Inquiry by Michael Max https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/0f25c62a-906f-4b59-ae79-a66986f0f906/unceasing-inquiry-richard-hammerschlag.mp3 It’s easy to think of researchers as stotic characters in laboratory coats who rely on their frontal cortex and...
155 Following Balance and Flow • Jake Fratkin
Acupuncture It is surprising where life can take us. We follow a hunch or a nudge and somehow gain some momentum that in time generates wind for our sails. Not many westerners in the 1970’s started along the road of Chinese medicine. In this long ranging conversation with Jake...
154 Medicine From the Heart- The Practice of Saam Acupuncture • Toby Daly
Acupuncture Chinese medicine is not one medicine; it’s a kaleidoscopic plurality. There is no one true acupuncture; we have a rich ecosystem of perspectives and methods. The trouble with learning something new is that we have let loose of our current understanding usually...
153 Untangling Emotion • Lillian Bridges
Acupuncture We often think of emotion as one thing. That we are sad, or angry, or frustrated, or joyous. But often it’s more complicated than that. Many times there will be an entanglement of emotion. Love and anger, grief and guilt, or excitment and anxiety. It’s when emotions...
152 Tracing the Wind Part II, Implementing a Research Study for Covid19- Practical Application
Herbal Medicine The Chinese say 活到老學到老 hou dao lao, xue dao lao, which can be translated as “continue learning for as long as you live.” It’s good advice, and when it comes to the practice of medicine, it’s essential. Our work gives us an endless opportunity to learn and deepen our...
151 Chinese Medicine & Covid19- The Perspective From China • Shelley Ochs & Thomas Garran
Acupuncture The Chinese and people of East Asia deal with epidemic disease on a regular basis. And every time a new bug comes to town, they learn a little more. While we in the west have access to some of the classic materials on treating epidemics, we don’t have the same level...
150 Tung Style Acupuncture • Susan Johnson
Acupuncture There are many ways to do acupuncture. Each method gives you a glimpse into the workings of the body, each one gives you a different map of the terrain. And each method allows us to understand and problem solve with a different set of both mental and physical tools....
The Privlege and Burden of Practice • Rebecca Avern
Qiologician Podcasts Spending time in the clinic seasons us. It exposes us to success, failure and unending questions about healing, wellbeing and connection that over time can help us to sit with our patients in the midst of deep difficulty. In this conversation with Rebecca Avern we...
149 What’s Going on Here? A Researcher Explores Acupuncture • Richard Hammerschlag
Acupuncture The prolific science fiction write Issac Asimov wrote “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …” The wonderful thing about research is that it invites delicious questions and...
148 World Grief-Transforming Trauma Through the Five Phases • Alaine Duncan
Acupuncture The airways are full of bad news, fear and conjecture it’s a hit parade of one scary thing after another. This alone would be hard our spirits if you ingest even a portion of the 24 hour media feed. Add on isolation and an unrelenting sense of an inescapable threat,...
147 Self-Publishing for Acupuncturists • Oran Kivity & Sean Sumner
Acupuncture These days pretty much anyone can have their own media outlet. The gatekeepers who used to control access to the airwaves and printing presses are pretty much gone. If you have something to share, especially something that focuses on or services a niche market, then...
146 Acupuncture and Neurology • Michael Corradino
Acupuncture We have many different ways to view the body with Chinese medicine and each of these lenses gives us a different perspective on both physiology and functionality. It’s not unlike those old acetate transparencies that would allow you to overlay different systems of the...
145 Tracing the Wind- Designing and Implementing a Study on the Treatment of Symptoms from Possible Covid19 with Chinese Herbal Medicine • Lisa Taylor-Swanson & Lisa Conboy
Herbal Medicine The scientific method is useful. It helps us to better understand the world by screening out our biases, beliefs and wishful thinking. The process of crafting a good hypothesis begins not with a great question, but first the more yin process of observation. Seeing...
144 The Dao of Communication • Margot Rossi & Nick Pole
Acupuncture You’ve noticed in the treatment room, that moment when something “lands” for the patient, and there’s a palpable internal shift. You’ve noticed this in yourself, that a question can be inviting as a whisper, or make you bristle like a growling dog. In this...