172 The Sunset of a Practice • Charlie Braverman
Business & Practice Management Our medicine teaches us that all things move through cycles of generation, flourishing, decline and disappearance. It’s the way qi moves through this world and so not a surprise that at some point there is an end to the practice that has sustained us and allowed us to...
171 Inner Development of the Practitioner • Peter Mole
Practitioner Cultivation & Development Good cookware requires seasoning. A hearty stew takes heat and time. Good wine needs a few years; whiskey, that requires a decade or more. And to develop as a practitioner of Chinese medicine, that ripening can take a lifetime. In this conversation with Peter Mole we...
170 Researching Attitudes Toward TCM • Brenda Le
Methods Research when done well is an inquiry that can shift the foundation of your cognitive model. And that’s exactly what it is for. In this conversation with Brenda Le we both explore how TCM is seen in our Western Chinese medicine world, and how doing this research...
169 The Path of Moxibustion • Felip Caudet
Methods My initial introduction to moxibustion was the classic Chinese mugwort cigar. I hated it. But only because my lungs are the weak link in my chain of being. The smoke was intolerable. Japanese rice grain moxa, that was a whole other universe. It’s not that less is...
Stress is Not Manageable • Heidi Lovie
Default Stress is Not Manageable by Michael Max | With Guest: Heidi Lovie https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/48e3d77c-3739-4f0d-bb0d-8fb1630649ce/heidi-lovie-you-cant-manage-stress-pt-two.mp3 Stress management is something we started to hear about in the 1980’s. But compare...
168 Balancing the Koshi • Jeffrey Dann
Acupuncture The medicines and martial arts of Asia have long considered the lower belly and back to be of significant importance in health, wellbeing and as a kind of seat of power and presence. In this conversation with long time practitioner Jeffrey Dann we explore the...
167 The Challenge of Ethics in a Healing Relationship • Laura Christensen
Ethics Ethics is never a simple black and white calculation, but rather the inquiry into proper relationship in a world filled with variability. It’s about considering the relationship with self, other, and society. And it’s a way to check ourselves for blind spots and to...
166 The Spirit of Medicine • Elisabeth Rochat
The Classics There is a kind of poetry to Chinese characters. They gives hints and clues about the names we give to the world. They tell a story. In this conversation with Elisabeth Rochat we explore, like you’d explore bottles of fine wine, some of the meaning and nuance in the...
165 Treating Cancer with Acupuncture • Yair Maimon
Cancer Jing, Qi and Shen— the three treasures. Like so many of these pithy quotes about Chinese medicine there is a lot here if you have taken the time to investigate it and see how it fits within your experience of practicing medicine. In this conversation with Yair Maimon...
164 The Resonant Hum of Yin and Yang • Sabine Wilms
Nei Jing Chinese is not that easy, and the 文言文 (wen yan wen) the classical Chinese, that stuff is a whole other order of magnitude in challenge to the modern Western mind. And yet if we are going to practice this medicine with deep roots into a long gone time and culture, we...
The Problem With the Medical Model • Alice Whieldon
Default The Problem With the Medical Model by Michael Max | With Guest: Alice Whieldon https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fff4b775-10de-4358-8cd2-fc0d4d0e4f2e/alice-whieldon-limits-of-the-medical-model.mp3 The medical model is useful for certain conditions and problems. It...
163 The Path of Journey • Daniel Schulman
Practitioner Cultivation & Development We venerate the masters, hold them up as shining examples of what we would like to be one some day, but let’s be honest here— most of us will never be masters. Those rarified characters are few and far between. And the process it takes is not one most of us would...
162 Spirals, Stems and Branches: The Structure of Unfoldment in Time and Space • Deborah Woolf
The Classics Stems and Branches are old Chinese science. Our medicine touches on it, but most of us rely on the more modern perspectives for our clincal work. The Stems and Branches speak to a perspective of the universe and our place in it that is foreign to our minds not because...
161 Vitality, Attention, & Sensing: Learning to Listen in Stillness • Chip Chace
Diagnosis There are many ways to attend to our patients in clinic. We can work through mental models that we’ve acquired from our schooling, study, and clinical experience. We can also use our innate human ability to touch, palpate and sense. In this episode with Chip Chase we...
160 Five Movements and Six Qi • Sharon Weizenbaum
The Classics We often consider the Five Phases when doing acupuncture, and the Six Conformations when treating our patients with herbal medicine.In this Part Two conversation with Sharon Weizenbaum we consider the interplay of “wu yun, liu qi” the five movements and six climatic...
Tea Time Talk with Sabine Wilms
Default Tea Time Talk with Sabine Wilms by Michael Max | With Sabine Wilms https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/be616e1f-e006-4cc5-b230-50c86d3b92af/tea-talk-with-sabine-qiologicians.mp3 This is the audio from a Teal Time talk with Sabine Wilms. Sabine holds these...
159 Voices of Our Medical Ancestors- Using the classic texts in modern practice • Leo Lok
Herbal Medicine 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
Diagnosis 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...