"Advanced Acupuncture: Understanding & Treating the Mental & Emotional Elements for Better Clinical Results - Teachings from the Ancient Chinese Classical Texts" - 7 DVD set

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Credits:	13 contact hours
Prerequisites:	Acupuncturists, third-year acupuncture students & MDs with acupuncture training
Cost:	7 DVD Set with 13 CEUs $265 7 DVD Set $195 CEUs only (DVDs already purchased) $125 The course is approved for NCCAOM PDAs and California CEUs. Post course quiz must be completed with a score of 75% or higher to receive CEUs. Note: We acknowledge that there are a few areas of this DVD recording that are not up to Bastyr’s typical high standard. Changes were made during the editing process that were beyond our control (i.e. there is a short area of blank recording; short portions of compromised sound quality). However, we still believe that it is important to make Dr Tran’s instruction and demonstration available to practitioners.

Description:

Original seminar held at Bastyr University March 26-28, 2004. This three-day seminar includes lecture (Dr. Tran Viet Dzung speaking in French and simultaneous translation into English) and patient treatment sessions by Dr Tran.

Advanced Acupuncture: Treating the Mental & Emotional Elements for Better Clinical Results - Teaching from the Ancient Classical Medical Texts.

As a conscientious acupuncturist, it is imperative to consider the mental and emotional state of the patient when making a diagnosis and treatment plan. Very often, the emotional condition of the patient can be a contributing factor, if not the cause, of their illness. In addition, so many of our patients are taking mood stabilizing medications, such as antidepressants; this also needs to be taken into account when making a diagnosis and treatment plan. In order to be as effective as possible in our treatment and diagnosis, we must be able to understand the physiology and pathology of the mental and emotional state of our patients. According to the ancient medical texts, "The mental is to man as precious stones are to the earth." Tran adds to this by summarizing "Mental is everything!"

This comprehensive three-day seminar goes into great depth on the mental state of well-being for each element, shedding light on how this healthy mental state (the Hun, the Shen, the Ye, the Po, and the Zhi) is formed as Acquired Immaterial Jing. You will learn the physiology and etiology of emotional balance (creativity, shen, thinking, sensitivity, and will), as well as emotional imbalance (anger, anxiety, worry/preoccupation, sadness/depression, fear/panic) and how this imbalance can lead to pathology - both mental and physical. You will learn how to treat patients with acute emotional imbalances and see immediate results, as well as how to treat chronic psychological and psychiatric conditions. You will learn many curious points from the NanJing and other ancient texts, as curious points are essential to employ when treating emotional imbalances as they relate to the Jing energy and Jing relates to the emotions.

The course gives you practical information that will provide immediate results in all your patients. This course consists of approximately 4 hours of morning lecture on physiology, pathology and treatment of the mental aspect and emotional imbalances, as well as psychological and psychiatric conditions. The afternoons consists of treatments of four patients each day, where Tran will treat a challenging patient along with the patient's acupuncturist/physician. This is an invaluable part of the training as you will observe and learn Tran's effective needling technique, his accurate point location from the ancient texts (often different than what we learned), his point selection and most importantly his rigorous reasoning behind each point selection, based on the ancient texts. The reasoning behind energetic medicine (acupuncture) really matters in our practice, as this is what differentiates energetic medicine from western medicine. As many of us have come to observe in our practice, the action intended behind each chosen point (based on this reasoning) is far more imperative to achieving results than the point itself. All that you will learn in this seminar is based on the original ancient medical texts from 5000 years ago. This course will invite you to revisit the information you learned in your original training from a deeper theoretical and clinical perspective, by providing a direct link to a more comprehensive version of the ancient texts that we otherwise don't have access to in our training in this country.

Course Notes:

Instructor:
Dr. Tran Viet Dzung, MD, is currently the faculty member in charge of cupuncture at the University of Medicine in Nice, France, and has been the assistant editor in chief of the Revue Francais de Medicine Traditionelle Chinoise since 1973. His achievements include founding member and president of the Association for Eastern Medicine, founder and member of honor of the Association of Physician Acupuncturists of America, and member of honor of the Medical American Academy of Acupuncture.

Dr. Tran is a world-renowned expert on the topic of acupuncture (energetic medicine). One of his greatest strengths in his teachings is transmitting, with passion, the rigorous reasoning inherent in acupuncture, as well as relating the strengths of energetic medicine to those of western medicine.Originally from Vietnam, Dr. Tran went to France for Medical School to become a surgeon. After ten years of practicing medicine as a surgeon in France, he came across, by chance, the world renowned acupuncturist/MD, Dr. Nguyen Van Nghi, and for next 30 plus years joined forces with Van Nghi in translating, clinically testing, and rewriting with commentary the only remaining set in the world of the ancient classical medical texts. Together, Dr.’s Van Nghi and Tran have translated over 10 books in French, including the LingShu, DaCheng, NanJing, NeiJing and others. In addition to continuing the translation efforts, Dr. Tran currently travels around the world transmitting this information to 1000's of physicians and acupuncturists in Brazil, Canada, Italy, Germany, Belgium, China, Vietnam, the USA etc. His goal is to transmit the rigorous reasoning inherent in Energetic Medicine (acupuncture) and to create the fusion of Western and Energetic Medicine in theory and practice. "Western Medicine and Energetic Medicine don't compete against each other, they complete each other" -Van Nghi.

Recently, Dr. Tran made history in acupuncture in the US, teaching the first module of the AOM Doctoral Program at OCOM (Oregon College of Oriental Medicine) in Portland, Oregon. From this March, 2004 seminar, a core group of students (30-50) will be formed to meet biannually in the Seattle area for five days of intensive study to learn all that Tran has to teach, step by step. The first meeting will be September 16-20, 2004 at the beautiful and serene Lake Quinalt Lodge on the Olympic Peninsula. This location has been carefully selected as it provides the perfect tranquil setting for the transmission of this information. Twice a year this group will gather to study in depth, all the topics of energetic medicine, comparing it to western medicine, when appropriate. These topics will include meridian physiology and pathology (primary meridians, internal branches, divergent meridians, curious meridians, tendino muscular meridians, etc.), the formation and pathology of Qi, including Ying, Jing, and Wei, the five organ and bowel systems, energetics of the San Jiao, organic liquids, and other topics such as afflux, gynecology, digestive disorders, obesity, psychiatry, cancer, auto immune disorders, and many other pathologies including alzheimer, MS, Parkinson, skin disease, etc. The teachings on these topics are far more rigorous and detailed than what we are familiar with and will allow you to treat more challenging cases in your practice with confidence and understanding, side by side with western medicine professionals.

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