Medicine, Ethics and Virtue • Sabine Wilms • Qi251
In this conversation with Sabine Wilms, we explore the complex dynamics of power and the idea of a virtuous hierarchy borne out of the authority of competence. We also bat around the inadequacies of translations and the limitations of language. And as a storyteller at heart, Sabine weighs up the concept of yangsheng using some popular Chinese teaching tales.
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Hospital Handbook Project • Megan Kingsley Gale • Qi231
Western medicine and East Asian medicine have often been seen as two completely different ways of approaching health and well being. Can they be blended together for the benefit of our patients? It has taken time for the Western world to...
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Qiological Audio Journal, Winter 2021 • QAJ003
Welcome to the third edition of the Qiological Audio Journal. The audio journal is a collection of interviews, discussions, clinical cases that help to illuminate the classics, book reviews, some business acumen and practical clinical skills to...
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Saam Panel on Practice • Sharon Sherman, Jeri Steele & Charles Bishop • Qi229
Yin/Yang is a lovely idea. The counterbalance of opposites sounds so good on paper, but the expression of those heavenly ideas within the limitations and form of Earth brings a lot of suffering, strife and pain. And yet, when we look at the earth...
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Navigating Uncertainty • Taran Rosenthal • Qi228
How we know, and how we know we know. Our capacity to sit with our patients that liminal space of not knowing. And the ability to navigate uncertainty the process of unfolding a treatment. All these are processes that can be learned, but can’t be...
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Repairing the World with Moxa • Hannah Swift • Qi227
針灸 Needles and Moxa, it is right there in the Chinese characters that are translated as “acupuncture.” Moxa is as fundamental to our practices as needles. The applications of burning mugwort run the gamut from cheap acrid Chinese pole moxa to ultra...
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Connections and Principles of Japanese Acupuncture, The Nan Jing, and the Saam Method • Thomas Sorensen • Qi226
Leaves on a plant curl and turn yellow when the soil is not right. The health of a cat is reflected in the texture of its fur and clearity in the eyes. Likewise with people we can discern states of wellness or illness by attending to those parts of...
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The Pernicious Influence of Depressive Heat • Rob Helmer • Qi225
The fundamentals root our practice. The basics that we learn in the beginning not only never go away, but deepen with experience. This is why regardless of lineage or method, Chinese medicine practitioners can communicate with each other as we...
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Integrating Sensing and Thinking Through the Lens of Japanese Acupuncture • Paul Movsessian • Qi224
Our job as clinicians is to help our patients. And to help them we must first understand them. Which is easier said than done, especially as we all have different ways of being in the world, our perception has a lot to do with which senses we like...
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Knowing Your Foundation and Leaning on Your Strengths • Mark Asquith • Qi223
When you’re running a business, be it an acupuncture clinic, tech company, plumbing service or coaching practice there are core principles that can spell the differences between failure and success. In this conversation with Mark Asquith we noodle...
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To Be Like Water • Margot Rossi • Qi222
Heartbreak is unavoidable. It’s not a flaw in character or make up humans, it’s a feature. It’s what allows us to grow beyond the bounds and limits of family, friend group, peers and whatever group identity we find that gives a sense of belonging...
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The Channel Project, Using Instagram to Teach and Market • Andrea Dewhurst • Qi221
Love it or hate it, social media has seeped its influence into many corners of our lives. Most people have at least one social media platform that acts as a kind of morning news, local gossip coffee shop, private printing press, or digital campfire...
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Nuts and Bolts of Building a Practice • Eric Grey • Qi220
Money is the lifeblood of every business; it’s the Qi. And an acupuncture practice can not ignore the basics of business. The main focus of a Chinese Medicine practitioner is to deliver holistic care to patients – in essence creating a safe space...
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Historical Context, Breaking Down Dogma, and Learning from Crisis Moments • Allen Tsuar • Qi219
There are many schools of thought, methods both ancient and modern, practices based on lineage and those idiosyncratically synthetic. It is easy to think that what you understand is correct, and all too often medicine is practiced with a bit of an...
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Uncertainty and Investing in Our Practice • William Green • Qi218
It’s easy to have beliefs about people we don’t know. Especially if they tick the boxes of our biases, prejudice, ignorance and the opinions of our friends. When you think about successful stock market investors you’re probably not thinking about...
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Qiological Audio Journal, Fall 2021 • QAJ002
Welcome to the second edition of the Qiological Audio Journal. The audio journal is a collection of interviews, discussions, clinical cases that help to illuminate the classics, book reviews, some business acumen and practical clinical skills to...
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Perspectives From a Family Lineage • Dr. Shoubin Yu & Anthony DiSalvo • Qi216
Traditions tell a story. They hold and transmit insights into cultural, religious, and sometimes medical practices. They can give us a glimpse into how family lineages consider and refine aspects of medicine learned in the institutional settings. ...
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Inquisitiveness, Engagement and Vitality • Velia Wortman • Qi215
As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, it’s our responsibility to address all aspects of our patient’s experience: mind, body, and spirit. This demands that we listen carefully to the various streams of information at our disposal—whether from our...
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Eastern and Western Philosophy & the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood • Qi214
How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits the options we can offer our patients for treatment. While the Venn Diagrams of East Asian and Western...
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Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith • Qi213
I’m reminded of the stillness of cats. How they can sit both still and yet completely and serenely attentive. So too with resonance, there is the yin aspect of stillness with the yang expression of vibrating with the influence of the environment....
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Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen • Qi212
Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced and complex in others. Feeling and interpreting a patient’s pulse is only one facet of clinical...
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