Course Overview
Please Note: This is an Audio and Reading course. When Bob Flaws was teaching, students often asked him how to treat a broad range of diseases with acupuncture. Since Chinese medicine as a system addresses patterns, not diseases. To that end, Bob attempted to help such students reframe their questions, and thus, their thinking . This program presents a methodology for how to compose an acupuncture formula for any pattern that causes disease, and to apply the knowledge very quickly in a clinical practice. a step-by-step methodology for choosing treatment protocols, two types of diagnosis: patterns and diseases, special acupuncture protocols for complex pattern presentations, the importance or treatment principles and Chinese medicines "Magic Funnel", keys for improving questioning skills, how to discriminate complicated cases with multi-pattern conditions, and why western patients present with certain combinations of disease patterns.
Course Objectives
- Participants will be able to understand professional Chinese medicines step-by-step methodology
- Participants will be able to understand differences between the diagnosis of pattern and the diagnosis of disease
- Participants will be able to understand the importance of treatment principles
- Participants will be able to understand special protocols for complex pattern presentations
- Participants will be able to understand modern theories for treating complicated patterns
- Participants will be able to understand keys for improving questioning skills
- Participants will be able to understand how to discriminate complicated, multi-pattern conditions
Course Outline
0 hrs - 1 hrsIntroduction, TCM basics and terminology
1 hrs - 4 hrsDisease diagnosis & pattern discrimination: using TCM methodology and questioning diagnosis
4 hrs - 6 hrsDesigning a TCM acupuncture formula based on disease diagnosis & pattern discrimination
6 hrs - 8 hrsTreating complicated cases
8 hrs - 9 hrsFavorite theories to consider with treatment: Similar Transformation, 6 Depressions, Yin Fire, Li Dong-yuans Five Steps
9 hrs - 10 hrsFavorite protocols and points to consider with treatment: Miriam Lees Great 10 Needles, Wang Le-Tings Old 10 Needles, Old Replete Needles
10 hrs - 11 hrsCommon formulas broken down into acupuncture protocols and Important principles & common mistakes
11 hrs - 14 hrsReading - Treating Principle as Funnels
Teacher
Bob Flaws began his study of Chinese medicine in 1977, and has since become one of the best-known English-language teachers, authors and practitioners of Chinese medicine. A champion of both the paradigm and process of Chinese medicine, Bob has written, translated and/or published over 80 books and hundreds of articles on the subject.
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Approved by: Standard Certificate, NCCAOM,
Course Type: Audio and Reading
Course Length: 14 Hrs.
Course Credits: 14 CPD
Course Notes: Notes are provided with this course.
Access Period: Lifetime
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Note
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