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...
157 Practicing Acupuncture in Rural America • Barbara Bittinger
Business & Practice Management Nothing new about city and rural life being very different. But what about when it comes to having an acupuncture practice? What’s it like to practice to practice away from the bustle of big city? Are country folk really that different from city slickers? And what...
156 Magic and Emergence- Treating Teenagers • Rebecca Avern
Conditions Can you remember in those first couple of years of puberty when your senses began to quicken and a new world began to open up and you started to question your place in the unfolding this world? Adolescence is a glorious and often troublesome ripening and as with so...
Unceasing Inquiry • Richard Hammerschlag
Research It’s easy to think of researchers as stotic characters in laboratory coats who rely on their frontal cortex and religiously follow the flowchart of “science.” But science is not a flowchart, and researcher is really another name for someone who grew into adulthood...
155 Following Balance and Flow • Jake Fratkin
Acupuncture It is surprising where life can take us. We follow a hunch or a nudge and somehow gain some momentum that in time generates wind for our sails. Not many westerners in the 1970’s started along the road of Chinese medicine. In this long ranging conversation with Jake...
154 Medicine From the Heart- The Practice of Saam Acupuncture • Toby Daly
Acupuncture Chinese medicine is not one medicine; it’s a kaleidoscopic plurality. There is no one true acupuncture; we have a rich ecosystem of perspectives and methods. The trouble with learning something new is that we have let loose of our current understanding usually...
153 Untangling Emotion • Lillian Bridges
Diagnosis We often think of emotion as one thing. That we are sad, or angry, or frustrated, or joyous. But often it’s more complicated than that. Many times there will be an entanglement of emotion. Love and anger, grief and guilt, or excitment and anxiety. It’s when emotions...
152 Tracing the Wind Part II, Implementing a Research Study for Covid19- Practical Application
Conditions The Chinese say 活到老學到老 hou dao lao, xue dao lao, which can be translated as “continue learning for as long as you live.” It’s good advice, and when it comes to the practice of medicine, it’s essential. Our work gives us an endless opportunity to learn and deepen our...
151 Chinese Medicine & Covid19- The Perspective From China • Shelley Ochs & Thomas Garran
Conditions The Chinese and people of East Asia deal with epidemic disease on a regular basis. And every time a new bug comes to town, they learn a little more. While we in the west have access to some of the classic materials on treating epidemics, we don’t have the same level...
150 Tung Style Acupuncture • Susan Johnson
Acupuncture There are many ways to do acupuncture. Each method gives you a glimpse into the workings of the body, each one gives you a different map of the terrain. And each method allows us to understand and problem solve with a different set of both mental and physical tools....
The Privlege and Burden of Practice • Rebecca Avern
Default Spending time in the clinic seasons us. It exposes us to success, failure and unending questions about healing, wellbeing and connection that over time can help us to sit with our patients in the midst of deep difficulty. In this conversation with Rebecca Avern we...
149 What’s Going on Here? A Researcher Explores Acupuncture • Richard Hammerschlag
Diagnosis The prolific science fiction write Issac Asimov wrote “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka!” (I found it!) but “That’s funny …” The wonderful thing about research is that it invites delicious questions and...