Due to continued travel restrictions imposed on Australians traveling to the US, we are yet again forced to postpone the Wuyun Liuqi seminar with Tyler Rowe and Arnaud Versluys. The new dates are moved to April 2-6, 2022, right before the 2022 French Quarter Fest (and coinciding with Arnaud's birthday). If you wish to stay registered, you do not need to do anything. If you wish to cancel your attendance and process your refund, please email Arnaud at aversluys@iceam.org. Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine® Application of the Shanghan Lun Formulas Along the Five Movements and Six Qi System of the Neijing April 2 - 6, 2022 Audubon Nature Institute, 6500 Magazine St New Orleans, LA 70118 Presented by: Tyler Rowe, BAc, BChinMed, LAc, DCCM Dr. Arnaud Versluys PhD, MD (China), LAc ‘Five Movements and Six Qi’ wuyun liuqi 五運六氣is the common name of a theoretical system that documents patterns in meteorological changes observed during the sixty year Chinese calendar, and how these changes affect human beings subject to these influences. The system also describes basic guidelines for the herbal medicine treatment of the conditions caused by these six influences. The theory was documented in chapters 66-71 and 74…
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The Treatise on Cold Damage shanghan lun is the oldest surviving clinical handbook in the history of Chinese medicine. Written by Eastern Han dynasty (circa 200 CE) imperial envoy Zhang Zhongjing, it is an integral part of his collective writings once labeled the Treatise on Cold Damage and Complex Diseases shanghan zabing lun. But the contents of the Shanghan Lun as we know it in current day is far from complete. The present versions studied in Chinese medical schools as well as in the West, do not include the original first three chapters of Rules for Pulse Differentiation bianmai fa, Rules on Pulse Assessment pingmai fa and Cold Damage Outline shanghan li. Regardless whatever motivation was behind the historical deletions of these passages, of the aforementioned chapters, the chapters on pulse instructions are crucial for anyone desiring to fully grasp Zhang Zhongjing’s clinical instructions. Especially since the pulse patterns maizheng form the core diagnostic parameters in the establishment of the formula patterns fangzheng by which the canonical clinician categorizes disease and therapy. 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…
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