126 Special Episode- Treating the Coronavirus With Chinese Medicine • Jin Zhao
Herbal Medicine The coronavirus that emerged in Wu Han earlier in this year has disrupted travel and business and has been a deep cause of concern as doctors throughout the world, and especially in China, strive to understand the nature of this pathogen. Conventional medicine brings...
125 Mirror of the Interior- Chinese Medicine Dermatology • Olivia Hsu Friedman
Herbal Medicine It’s easy to think of our skin as the outside wrapper, but really its a mirror of the internal environment. And while topical treatment of skin has it use, it’s learning to adjust that inner milieu that over time makes for the biggest changes with the skin. It’s quite...
124 Attending to the Field of Healing • Esther Platner
Acupuncture There is something about connection that goes beyond words. There is a way of engaging with those who seek our help that goes beyond the ten questions. Connection is not something we do, it’s a way we are. In this conversation with long time practitioner Esther...
Discovering What It Means to be a Doctor • Poney Chiang
Qiologician Podcasts Discovering What It Means to be a Doctor by Michael Max | With Guest: Poney Chiang https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/e903ec30-8fac-4624-92d6-11f70321596c/discovering-what-it-means-to-be-a-doctor-poney-chiang.mp3 In our last conversation with Poney, we talked about...
123 Creativity, Presence and Attention • Michael McMahon
Cultivation The practice of medicine is not completely about what we do, it’s also informed by how we are. How our presence, perception and allowing ourselves to abide in that space between knowing, sensing and being can invite a quiet, non-rational part of ourselves into the...Using Saam in the Community Clinic • Toby Daly
Qiologician Podcasts Using Saam in the Community Clinic by Michael Max | Toby Daly https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/4f37bed0-e507-4124-a4ca-d0f953328407/using-saam-in-the-community-clinic-toby-daly-and-michael-max.mp3 This is the audio of a webinar conversation on the use of Saam...
122 CBD, Neurology and the Inspiration That Comes From Unexpected Challenges • Chloe Weber
Herbal Medicine The changes that come from an unexpected direction tend to be the ones that transform our lives the most. Chloe Weber did not plan on becoming an expert in neurology. She was on the path of providing herbs and acupuncture to low income populations. But when her son’s...
Coherence and Patterning • Edward Neal
Qiologician Podcasts How does acupuncture work? We hear this question all the time. From our patients, from someone we just met at a neighborhood BBQ, from out parents, and if we are honest— ourselves. The ancient Chinese mind that conjured up acupuncture did not consider... This content...
121 A Neurological View of Acupuncture Points • Poney Chiang
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120 The Archetypes of Confucius and Carl Jung • Pia Giammasi
Cultivation Archetypes are deep influences that all humans share. They give us a glimpse into the complicated landscape of our psyche. They can live in the light or influence from the dark. Carl Jung had a lot to say about our intrapsychic world, how these influences are shared...
119 The Power of Connection- Business as an Aspect of Community • Brigitte Linder
The practice of practice An often overlooked aspect of running our own business is that it gives us a potent way of connecting with others and serving a community. Sure there are additional responsibilities that come with this kind of an opportunity. But the freedom it can give us, and the...
Practical Cosmology • Deborah Woolf
Acupuncture Practical Cosmology by Michael Max | With guest: Deborah Woolf https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/d67e60fd-40d5-4287-bd84-28fed94b090c/practical-cosmology-deborah-woolf.mp3 In the study of acupuncture we learn about the Five Phases, the Six Conformations, all kinds...
118 Daoism in the Modern World • Josh Paynter
Cultivation Daoism and Daoist thought is something that many acupuncturists have been exposed to. It might have been part of what launched our interest in studying medicine. And perhaps you’ve had the experience of reading books like the Dao De Jing and come away more with a...
117 Getting Your Finances Right- What the Entrepreneurial Acupuncturist Needs to Know • Beverly Hacker
The practice of practice Money, for many, is the pebble in our shoe that irrates enough to annoy, but not enough for us to make a fundemental change. And if our accounting systems mirror our confusion or conflict around finances, then that adds more one more thing that we’d prefer not to...
116 Qi Anatomy • Brenda Hood
Acupuncture The way we make sense of structure helps us to understand function. Drawing lines and divisions helps us to understand parts. But a keen understanding of the parts does not always help us to see the whole of the functioning of those parts. The anatomy of qi gives us a...
115 Beyond The Visible – Electromagnetic Radiation and Health • Brandon LaGreca
Acupuncture Chinese medicine reminds us that we are one part of a complex, interdependent and ever evolving ecosystem. That we both influence and are influenced by the world. Our toolmaking ability has wrought remarkable changes on the world, and on ourselves. You are...
Stalking the Wild Caterpiller Fungus • Jeff Chilton
Qiologician Podcasts Cordyceps is one of the precious medicinals of the Chinese medicine pharmacopeia. It’s a wild grown substance that has only recently begun to give up the secrets to how it can be cultivated so that its benefits can be enjoyed by more than a privileged few. This...
114 Wisdom Guild: Listening to Our Practice • Njemile Carol Jones, Laura Christensen, Esther Platner
Cultivation What gets us started is not what sustains us over the long haul. The energy of beginning is essential at the start of any new endeavor. But what got us to here, will not get us to there. It’s easy to think that we are broken because what brought us success does not...