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Chicago ICEAM® was founded in 2010 and is governed by Stephen Bonzak, MSTOM, DCCM, LAc. Chicago ICEAM is responsible for hosting all Canonical Chinese Medicine® training seminars for the Midwestern United States. Since 2010, Chicago ICEAM has hosted three full training cycles which produced a vast number of graduates. All seminars offered in Chicago are recognized as Continuing Education Units (CEU) by the National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM), as well as the State of Illinois.

Courses in Chicago are commonly held at the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in downtown Chicago (http://www.pacificcollege.edu/prospective/locations/chicago/campus).

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Chicago – Tian-Lineage Jingui Yaolue Pulse Diagnosis

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

Diagnosis in Han-dynasty was primarily done by taking the pulse. Every formula can be identified through one or more pulse patterns presenting in the patient. Though many pulses are mentioned in the Jingui Yaolue, crucial detail is often hidden, and it is as if this knowledge is merely implicitly present, as if it were embedded. Therefore, the Tian Heming Canonical Formula lineage’s main strength and contribution to the field of Chinese medicine to have made this advanced knowledge on pulse diagnosis crystal clear and evident. This knowledge has never been recorded in any book, but was rather transmitted orally from Dr. Tian Heming through Dr. Zeng Rongxiu to Dr. Arnaud Versluys. The latter of which has been teaching this material around the world in more systematized and structured format since a few years. Note regarding the Shanghan Lun and Jingui Yaolue Pulse Seminars: due to the proprietary and complex nature of these seminars, they cannot be registered for individually and can only be taken as part of the total sequence. The pulse seminars are open for individual registration only to Diplomates of Canonical Chinese Medicine already certified by our institute who wish to retake the seminar.

Chicago – Shanghan Lun Abdominal Diagnosis Fukushin

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

Japanese abdominal diagnosis or Fukushin is the diagnostic art developed in medieval Japan based on the canonical writings by Zhang Zhongjing. Careful inspection of the Shanghan Zabing Lun reveals countless references to abdominal conditions that could only have been diagnosed by actual palpation of the abdomen. The skill however never fully developed in China but flourished in Japan. Throughout history, two major trends and types of abdominal diagnosis developed, being the Nanjing and Shanghan Lun schools, which respectively diagnose the abdomen in service of either acupuncture or meridian treatment, and herbal treatment. Fukushin refers specifically to Shanghan Lun style of abdominal diagnosis developed by Japanese scholars during Edo period (1603-1867 CE) for the purpose of prescribing the Han dynasty formulas of Zhang Zhongjing.

Chicago – Shanghan Zabing Lun Formula Families

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

The Shanghan Zabing Lun or the Treatise on Cold Damage and Complex Diseases is considered the forefather of all formula books. The original work was lost to the tooth of time, but most of its contents are preserved in two extant works called the Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun and the Concise Essentials of the Golden Cabinet jingui yaolue. The first work primarily addresses externally triggered disorders while the latter work describes the pathology and treatment of complex diseases generated internally.

Chicago – Tian-Lineage Shanghan Lun Pulse Diagnosis

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

This three weekend course is the instruction of specialized Materia Medica and formula studies in the service of canonical Chinese medicine as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing in the Shanghan Lun and the Jingui Yaolue.

Chicago – Shanghan Lun Pathophysiology and Basic Patterns

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

The Treatise on Cold Damage or Shanghan Lun is one of the most prominent Eastern Han-dynasty (circa CE 200) classics in Chinese medicine and the first clinical handbook in China’s medical history. It is also the center of the Canonical Chinese Medicine Training.

Chicago – The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part Two

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

This three weekend course is the instruction of specialized Materia Medica and formula studies in the service of canonical Chinese medicine as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing in the Shanghan Lun and the Jingui Yaolue.

Chicago – The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part One

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

This three weekend course is the instruction of specialized Materia Medica and formula studies in the service of canonical Chinese medicine as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing in the Shanghan Lun and the Jingui Yaolue.

Chicago – The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Inner Circle

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

This three weekend course is the instruction of specialized Materia Medica and formula studies in the service of canonical Chinese medicine as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing in the Shanghan Lun and the Jingui Yaolue.

Chicago – The Energetics of the Five Flavors and Canonical Formulas

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

Canonical Chinese Medicine is the style of Chinese medicine practiced along the tenets codified in the Western and Eastern Han dynasty (approx. 200 BC- 200 CE) medical classics or canons. It is the foundation of both clinical and theoretical Chinese medicine as we know it. Canonical Chinese medicine is comprised of two main schools being the Yellow Emperor huangdi 黄帝school of Medical Canons yijing pai 醫經派and the Divine Farmer shennong 神农school of Canonical Formulas jingfang pai经方派.

Chicago – Nineteen Lines on Pathology

ICEAM Chicago 65 E. Wacker Pl., Chicago, IL, United States

Chapter seventy-four of the Great Treatise on the Essence of the Utmost Truth zhizhen yaodalun of the Inner Classic of the Yellow Emperor huangdi neijing records the most encompassing and original rules in Chinese medicine pathology. The nineteen patterns, most commonly known as the Nineteen Lines on Pathology, are considered to be the most authoritative instructions on classical etio-pathology and the only discourse where a differentiation method based on the five phase energetics is presented.