391 Meditations on Saam • Evan Mahoney
Sometimes the most profound truths are found in watching what happens when we move between guidance and control. Between letting things unfold and imposing our will.
Evan Mahoney brings a rich tapestry of experience to our discussion, from his own journey of healing through meditation and acupuncture to his explorations of dream interpretation through the lens of Korean Saam acupuncture. His path has been illuminated through serendipity, necessity, and years of dedicated study with Dr. Tae Cheong Choo.
Listen in to this discussion on the three levels of human needs in Saam acupuncture, how dreams reveal our constitutional patterns, and why an acupuncturist's learning curve sometimes involves discovering what not to do.
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072 Center and Root: The Gentle And Effective Women's Health Medicine From Zhejiang • Steve Clavey
It’s not uncommon for children of doctors to also become doctors. Sometimes there will be a string of docs that run for a number of generations. Which can be a good thing as you can learn at lot at your grandparents knee. In today’s conversation we...
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071 Coming to Our Senses: Exploring Evidence and Logic • Nigel Dawes
How we make sense in clinic is not as simple as ticking items off a list. It’s more than mentally sorting through the models, theories, admonitions from our teachers and some chatter from a recent glimpse at Facebook. While the theories and mental...
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070 Stages and Cycles of Practice • Sharon Weizenbaum
It is easy to think of Chinese medicine as a clear step by step process of diagnosis and treatment, but it does not always go that way in clinic. It can take time for a diagnosis to clarify, and then there is the level of skill we bring to...
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069 Sinew, Structure and Function • Brian Lau
The textbooks tell us that sinew channels are important in the treatment of pain and musculoskeletal issues and they are accessed through the jing-well points. But beyond that not much else is said. In this conversation we investigate the channel...
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068 Learning Acupuncture During the Beginning of AIDS • Susan Paul
It’s not hard to study acupuncture these days. A quick internet search will bring up plenty of choices. But back in the 1980’s, it was a different story. Our guest, like many of us, did not set out to become an acupuncturist. It was a process of...
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067 Yi Jing As Operating System • Lorraine Wilcox
The Yi Jing speaks in the language of image, resonance and metaphor. Its not a good place to go for direct answers, but can be helpful in finding some guidence. Our converation today touches not just on the ways it is used for divination, but more...
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066 Martial Use of Acupuncture Points • Jonathan Bluestein
We know that Chinese medicine along with the martial and cultivation arts of East Asia share a common root.In our healing practices we are paying attention to the medicinal side of this continuum. We don’t think about the points can be used for...
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065 New Year Reflections, The Practice of Practice And A Look At The Small Intestine That You've Probably Not Considered • Michael Max
Ahhh, the new year. A moment in time to reflect on the path recently traveled and what’s up around that bend in the road. This is a solo show reflecting on some of the podcast highlights of the past year, a glimpse into some things already on the...
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064 Shen Nong Society: A Taste for Herbs • Sally Rappeport
Sometimes takes an instant to know you might fall in love with something. And then it takes years, even decades to unfold all contained in that initial spark. When it comes to the study and practice of Chinese herbs, you’re signing on for a...
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063 Flavor Based Medicine: Exploring Preparation Methods From the Shang Han Lun • Simon Feeney
Page through the Materia Medica and it is easy to think that Chinese herbal medicine is one unified body of knowledge and practice.But, it’s not. If you look closely you’ll see that different formulations come from different dynasties. Some were...
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062 Constitution, Korean Medicine and the Power of Food • Tracy Stewart
Chinese medicine and Korean medicine share a lot of similarities. But there are a few differences. And when it comes to constitutional types, there are some significantly dissimilar perspectives. This is one of the delights of East Asian...
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061 The Medicine of Motion • Renee Klorman
We tend to think of movement in mechanical terms. How this muscle contracts, how blood perfuses a certain kind of tissue or how tendons and bones allow for particular kinds of movement. But beyond this we we can see that movement is a kind of...
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060 Treating Inflammation with Chinese Medicine • Will Maclean
Inflammation is a popular topic in the worlds of both alternative and conventional medicine. It’s a pathologic process that is the result of certain disease processes and the generator of others. It is also something that can be treated very well...
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059 Engaging the channels: learning acupuncture with Dr. Wang Ju Yi • Jonathan Chang
The best teachers are perpetual students. They are ones who when things don’t work as expected don’t say the medicine doesn’t work. These people dig into finding out why they don’t yet know how to make it work.While aspects of medicine can be...
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058 A Research Scientist's View of the Pulse & Beauty• Martha Lucas
It’s easy to think there is one way to take the pulse, and natural to fall back on the habits that formed early on in our learning to attend to this vital aspect of diagnosis and prognosis. Pulse is something our teachers help us to orient toward,...
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057 Group discussion: Clinical Questions About Sa’am Acupuncture • Toby Daly and Guests
Sa’am has a good backstory. The meditative attainment of a Buddhist monk sparks a stream of acupuncture that can be taught to simple monks to help alleviate the suffering of the world.
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056 Focusing on the Basics: Treating Degenerative Eye Conditions With Chinese Medicine • Paul Nebauer
There are basics, principles, fundamentals, some building blocks of how the matter and energy of creation interact and transform. Over the centuries, through wildly different ideas of illness, health and workings of the human body, doctors have...
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055 A Historical Investigation of Constraint • Eric Karchmer
Liver qi constraint might be one of the most common diagnosis in the modern Chinese medicine clinic. But the role of the Liver has changed over time, and at one point it was even considered to be part of the neurological system. In this episode we...
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054 Nei Jing Perspective on Life, the Universe and Acupuncture • Ed Neal
We trace our medicine back to the Nei Jing, but most of our actual practices come from a more modern perspective. Going back to those roots is not easy. Even for native speakers of Chinese, reading the 文言文 wen yan wen, the classic Chinese is...
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053 Investigating Errors and Adverse Effects – Grist for the Mill of Practice
Like hitting black ice, suddenly all sense of traction and stability evaporate into a gut wrenching vertigo. Adverse reactions of our patients to acupuncture can trigger this kind of disorientation. And this is when we have an opportunity to learn...
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