East Asian medicine uses a completely different map of physiology and function from that of modern biomedicine to understand health and illness. It’s a set of tools and perspectives that gives us a unique look at the entanglements of function and form. And when using acupuncture to help our patients it’s all about the qi, right? Maybe not.
In this conversation with Leah Fehres we consider the relationship between acupuncture points, nerve structures, and the body’s intricate nervous and fascial systems. How the bifurcation of nerves is frequently the location of an acupuncture. And how traditional diagnostic methods might not reveal for us how we can consider neurophysiology in formulating an effective acupuncture treatment.
Listen in to this conversation that invites you to question traditional practices and embrace acupuncture through another lens.
One thing I always keep in mind with my approach to acupuncture is a problem-solving principle known as “Occam’s razor” which essentially states that “simpler solutions are more likely to be correct than complex ones”
Leah Fehres
I completed my Bachelor of Health Science majoring in acupuncture from Endeavour College of Natural Health in Brisbane, Queensland in 2015 where I graduated with distinction and was awarded the medal of academic excellence for highest achievement in acupuncture Australia-wide.
Since early on in my studies, I have been searching for ways to explain the mechanisms of acupuncture through more than just the concepts of Qi and Vessels and have spent years formulating a new perspective on the practice of acupuncture through extensive research and clinical practice. This new perspective offers a contemporary version of acupuncture based not on the ancient philosophy of Qi, but how the body responds to acupuncture on the bases of anatomy and physiology alone.
When not obsessively researching new ways to explain acupuncture, I spend my professional life between my home clinic and Endeavour College where I am a lecturer and student clinic supervisor.
