Course Overview

Please Note: This is an Audio and Reading Course. Allergies and auto-immune diseases are considered ""difficult to treat, knotty diseases"" in Chinese medicine. Bob Flaws has spent the last 20 years treating complex American patients—as well as hundreds of hours researching both the ancient and modern Chinese medical literatures—in order to find the best way to understand and treat such complex, recalcitrant conditions. In this course, he shares with you the principles, theories, and personal insights that his research and study have produced. In fact, if you understand and apply the material presented in this seminar, you need never be stumped by a complex patient again! This course covers specific pattern discrimination for: (1) Allergic rhinitis (2) Gu parasites (3) Candidiasis (4) Intestinal dysbiosis (5) Leaky gut syndrome (6) The most important theories for understanding allergies and auto-immune diseases (7) Acupuncture for treating complex conditions (8) The role of self care and lifestyle choices for allergy and auto-immune patients (9) Myasthenia gravis (10) Systemic lupus erythematosus (11) Scleroderma (12) Sjögren’s syndrome (13) Multiple sclerosis (14) Atopic dermatitis (15) Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

Course Objectives

• Participants will learn specific pattern discriminations for the following disorders: Allergic rhinitis, Gu parasites, Candidiasis, Intestinal dysbiosis, Leaky gut syndrome, Myasthenia gravis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Scleroderma, Sjögren’s syndrome, Multiple sclerosis, Atopic dermatitis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis
• Participants will understand the most important theories for understanding allergies and auto-immune diseases
• Participants will understand acupuncture for treating complex conditions
• Participants will understand the role of self-care and lifestyle choices for allergy and auto-immune patients

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minIntroduction, TCM basics & modalities of treatment, common specializations in TCM

30 min - 1.5 hrsTreating knotty, difficult to treat diseases with TCM, main Chinese disease diagnosis in allergies & autoimmune disorders

1.5 hrs - 2.5 hrsTCM methodology & pattern discrimination with knotty diseases

2.5 hrs - 4.5 hrsAllergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, hypothyroidism, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE (systemic lupus erythematosus), MS, Scleroderma, Sjogrens Syndrome, Polymyositis & Dermatomyositis, Myasthenia Gravis, ALS, Progressive Spinal Myoatrophy, Crohns disease, Endometriosis

4.5 hrs - 6.5 hrsAutoimmune disease: prioritizing your treatment principles

6.5 hrs - 7.5 hrsCommonly used medicinals

7.5 hrs - 8.5 hrsFood allergies & associated disorders

8.5 hrs - 9.5 hrsAn explanation of Gu syndrome

9.5 hrs - 10.5 hrsCommonly used medicinals for food allergies, allergy-related GI disorders, & Gu syndrome

10.5 hrs - 11.5 hrsDietary recommendations and Modern Theories and Treatment principles

11.5 hrs - 15 hrsReading - The Main Clinical Symptoms of Autoimmune Diseases