138 The Essence of Our Work: A Heartfelt Inquiry Into Knowing What You Have to Offer Online • Mary Beth Huwe
Business & Practice Management With Covid-19 knocking the bottom out of our practices, there is a call from experts in the field to “get online.” Which isn’t bad advice as it does provide a channel to our patients in a time when we can’t put our hands on them. But, and this is important, many...
137 Listening • Michael Max
Diagnosis Listening is not a skill that I expected to develop. I thought I’d get good with palpation or pulse reading. After all, the masters are said to get what they need with the pause and a few questions. That’s what I was aiming for, however it did not work out that way...
Immunity and Resiliency
Default Immunity and Resiliency by Michael Max | With guests: Laura McGraw, Toby Daly and Chris Powell https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/fe1b7903-0c6e-4e81-b503-5206959342e3/immunity-and-resiliency.mp3 With the novel coronavirus spreading through the world, health care...
136 Abundance, Perspective, and Practice • Lamya Kamel
Business & Practice Management The opinions we have about “doing business” can dramatically affect the kind of practice we have, the opportunities we recognize or are blind to, and how we feel about ourselves as we begin to generate some momentum and success in our work. Success brings its own...
135 Trusting the Fundamentals- Using Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Epidemic Disease • Heiner Fruehauf
Conditions For those of us in North America the world changed about three weeks ago as the Covid-19 began to make itself known. And as Chinese medicine practitioners begin to close their in-person practice and open up video visits with patients for herbal consultations there is...
134 Curiosity in the Time of Corona • Greg Bantick
Conditions Some of the difficulties faced by many of us in this time of pandemic are the disorientation, anxiety and fear that arise from uncertainty. But if you look more closely, you’ll see that there never is in this life the guarantee of certainty. It can feel that way...
133 Researching the Essence of Moxa • Alice Douglas
Methods Moxibustion is one of the more interesting methods in toolbox. Stunning in its simplicity and often brings deep relief for those who are a good fit for this method. It’s curious how the burning of this particular herb can bring about healing. Alice Douglas has loved...132 Acupuncture in the Borderlands • Ryan Bemis
Acupuncture Acupuncture in the Borderlands • Qi132 by Michael Max | With guest, Ryan Bemis Intro to the show goes here In This Conversation We Discuss:highlights go here Clinic tip goes here The guest of this show Guest of the show goes here Links and Resources...
132 Acupuncture in the Borderlands • Ryan Bemis
Acupuncture Ours is a portable medicine. In the 1960’s the barefoot doctors in China took Chinese medicine into the countryside. Over the years acupuncturist’s response to natural disasters has show us that acupuncture can be practiced in makeshift shelters or tents. It also has...
131 Weird Science, Bioelectricity, Consciousness and Biology • John Hubacher
Acupuncture We often think of the bioelectricity of the nervous system as a signaling system for the body to communicate with itself, but it might serve an even greater function of allowing us to interact with our larger environment. This conversation with John Hubacher started...
Tidal Flows and Channel Resonance • Brenda Hood
Default Tidal Flows and Channel Resonance by Michael Max | With Guest: Brenda Hood https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/03d4b9c4-0c6c-4f99-89f0-6eb01e913131/tidal-flows-and-channel-resonance-brenda-hood.mp3 The 子午 zi wu, “Chinese Clock” that helps us to learn the flow of qi...
130 Considering Covid-19, Methods and Safety • Craig Mitchell
Conditions The coronavirus has not only found its way into our bloodstream and mucus membranes, it’s worked its way into our social fabric, economic relations and political disagreements. In this age of global electronic connection news of this new virus creates perhaps more...
129 Currents, Culture and Conversation Through Time • Volker Scheid
Philosophy Many of us like to think we are connected with doctors throughout time, that we practice the same medicine in a continuous flow from the days of Huang Di down to this modern moment. It’s a lovely narrative. One that our patients often think about as well when they say...
128 Saam Acupuncture, the Scholar Tradition • Andreas Bruch
Acupuncture The Saam tradition traces its roots back four hundred years to a monk who as part of his meditative practice received some insight into medicine that allowed him see and work simultaneously with the five phases and six conformations. But monks are not doctors, even if...
127 Tracking the Void, Non-Linear Methods of Research • Lisa Taylor-Swanson
Methods Humans have an innate drive to make sense of the world. To understand how things work and see if we can reliability influence the outcome on something. To find a way to get more of what we want, or less of what we dislike. When you think about it, life is one big...
126 Special Episode- Treating the Coronavirus With Chinese Medicine • Jin Zhao
Conditions 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
Conditions 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
Diagnosis 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...