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Austin- Shanghan Lun Abdominal Diagnosis Fukushin
2016-10-22 - 2016-10-23 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, 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.

Austin - Tian-Lineage Shanghan Lun Pulse Diagnosis
2016-09-10 - 2016-09-11 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States
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 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.

Frankfurt - Tian-Lineage Shanghan Lun Pulse Diagnosis
2016-08-18 - 2016-08-21 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany

Austin - Shanghan Lun Pathophysiology and Basic Patterns
2016-08-06 - 2016-08-07 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, 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.

Amsterdam - Shanghan Lun Acupuncture and Canonical Formula Modification System
2016-07-09 - 2016-07-10 | ICEAM Amsterdam, Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijzen Qing-Bai, Postbus 31412, Amsterdam, CK Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands
During this course, a strict system of clinical modification will be taught. The system was developed by Dr. Versluys over the course of the last ten years by analyzing both Zhang Zhongjing’s prescriptions as well as the characteristics of the Tian-Zeng lineage’s clinical practice. It is fully grounded and based in the classical writings of the original designer of the formulas, Zhang Zhongjing. The system is organized along a hierarchical system of formula modifications and provides a failsafe method for modification to adapt to a broader collection of complex clinical manifestations as often encountered in Chinese medicine clinic in the West. A waterproof modification system forms the basis of classical herbal practice and the elimination of random clinical variables which are the greatest cause for failure in clinic.

Amsterdam - Shanghan Zabing Lun Formula Families
2016-07-07 - 2016-07-08 | ICEAM Amsterdam, Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijzen Qing-Bai, Postbus 31412, Amsterdam, CK Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands
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.

Melbourne – Clinic Training Day 2
2016-06-27 | ICEAM Melbourne, 103 Evans St., Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, Australia
Observe an ICEAM clinical supervisor take pulses and write formulas in clinic. Limited to 14 students per day. Maximum 25 patients per day. Patient contacts count towards fulfillment of clinical certification as Fellow of the Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine.

Austin - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part Two
2016-06-25 - 2016-06-26 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States
This 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.

Sydney - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part One
2016-06-24 - 2016-06-25 | ICEAM Sydney, 826 George St, Chippendale, New South Wales, 2008, Australia

Sydney - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Inner Circle
2016-06-22 - 2016-06-23 | ICEAM Sydney, 826 George St, Chippendale, New South Wales, 2008, Australia

Sydney - Clinic Training Day 2
2016-06-21

Austin - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part One
2016-05-14 - 2016-05-15 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States

Frankfurt - Tian-Zeng Lineage Shanghan Lun Case Studies and Clinical Strategies
2016-05-11 - 2016-05-14 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany
The Shanghan Zabing Lun is the first historical manual to teach the treatment of both acute and chronic complex diseases that have been triggered externally or have arisen from internal damage. Though a classical work, it is of great clinical value for modern day practice.

Frankfurt - Shanghan Lun Abdominal Diagnosis Fukushin
2016-04-28 - 2016-05-01 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany

Austin - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Inner Circle
2016-04-02 - 2016-04-03 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States

Amsterdam - Shanghan Lun Abdominal Diagnosis Fukushin
2016-03-12 - 2016-03-13 | ICEAM Amsterdam, Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijzen Qing-Bai, Postbus 31412, Amsterdam, CK Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands

Frankfurt - Shanghan Lun Acupuncture and Canonical Formula Modification System
2016-03-03 - 2016-03-05 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany

Melbourne – Clinic Training Day 1
2016-02-29 | ICEAM Melbourne, 103 Evans St., Brunswick, Victoria, 3056, Australia
Observe clinic with an ICEAM clinical supervisor take pulses and write formulas in clinic. Limited to 12 students per day. Maximum 25 patients per day. Patient contacts count towards fulfillment of clinical certification as Fellow of the Institute of Classics in East Asian Medicine.

Sydney- The Energetics of the Five Flavors and Canonical Formulas
2016-02-26 - 2016-02-27 | ICEAM Sydney, 826 George St, Chippendale, New South Wales, 2008, Australia
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.

Sydney - Nineteen Lines on Pathology
2016-02-24 - 2016-02-25 | ICEAM Sydney, 826 George St, Chippendale, New South Wales, 2008, Australia
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.
There is great difficulty in understanding these instructions, because they cannot be researched from merely a more modern Qing dynasty organ differentiation standpoint that we are most accustomed to. As such, the only path to full understanding of the lines is an evaluation from all possible angles in classical Chinese medicine thinking. This evaluation will be engaged in by cross-referencing other classics like the Classic of Difficulties nan jing, as well as later commentaries by masters like Zhang Jingyue, etc.
The lines are structured along a twofold grid: the first outline along the five solid organs; while the second outline is arranged along the six Qi or six climatic influences. During the course, all Solid Organ patterns will be studied and explained along with the most representative lines on the Six Qi. As such, this course will provide the participant with a definitive understanding on classical Chinese medicine pathology and an excellent tool for the evaluation of difficult cases in clinic.

Sydney - Clinic Training Day 1
2016-02-23

Austin - The Energetics of the Five Flavors and Canonical Formulas
2016-02-13 - 2016-02-14 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States

Austin - Nineteen Lines on Pathology
2016-01-09 - 2016-01-10 | ICEAM Austin, 4701 West Gate Blvd., Austin, TX, 78745, United States

Amsterdam - Tian-Lineage Shanghan Lun Pulse Diagnosis
2015-12-05 - 2015-12-06 | ICEAM Amsterdam, Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijzen Qing-Bai, Postbus 31412, Amsterdam, CK Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands

Amsterdam - Shanghan Lun Pathophysiology and Basic Patterns
2015-12-03 - 2015-12-04 | ICEAM Amsterdam, Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijzen Qing-Bai, Postbus 31412, Amsterdam, CK Nijmegen, 6503, Netherlands

Frankfurt - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part Two
2015-11-26 - 2015-11-29 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany

Frankfurt - Diseases of the Jingui Yaolue, Part Two
2015-11-20 - 2015-11-23 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany
This is the authoritative instruction of the etio-pathology and treatment of over 70 complex diseases recorded in the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet or Jingui Yaolue. During this course, virtually all illnesses of the original text are discussed in great detail, allowing the student to gain an ultimate and conclusive insight into the pathomechanisms behind these often chronic, recalcitrant and debilitating illnesses. The formulas used in the Jingui are taught in their respective clinical contexts.

New Orleans - 2015 Advanced Canonical Chinese Medicine Seminar
2015-11-04 - 2015-11-08 | ICEAM New Orleans, Audubon Nature Institute, 6500 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA, 70118, United States
The Pathologies and Formulas of the Decoction Classic tangye jing
November 4-7, 2015
The Treatise on Cold Damage and Complex Disorders is a unique clinical handbook. Nothing of its kind was ever before seen in the pre-Han history of Chinese medicine. Its clinical and academic value is unrivalled. But when reading all medical classics preceding the eastern-Han dynasty, it is hard not to wonder what the blueprint for the formulas in this work was? Many historical physicians have contemplated this question but only Jin-dynasty masters like Huang Fumi and Tao Hongjing formulated an actual answer. The answer at the time being that Zhongjing’s formulas belong to the transmission lineage of the Divine Farmer, and were a continuation of the formulaic science of western-Han dynasty’s Decoction Classic tangye jing.
But for modern man it was hard to confirm this opinion. And it was even harder to actually establish the source of Zhongjing’s formulas. Until the first part of the twentieth century, when among the medical books found in the Dunhuang caves in Northwest China, a work by Tao Hongjing was found, titled Secret Key to the Essential Methods for the Application of Herbs for Viscera and Bowels. In these Secret Keys, Tao Hongjing records a total of sixty formulas from the Decoction Classic, among which the major and minor tonification and purgation formulas, and the major and minor Dawn and Six Constellation decoctions. Upon inspection, it is not hard to discern their similarities with Zhongjing’s formulas. Thus it became finally possible to confirm that these formulas without any doubt have functioned as blueprints in the design of Zhongjing’s prescriptions.
Though the seminar will give a detailed overview of the historical situation and importance of the Tangye Jing, this seminar will still have a stronger clinical emphasis and will mostly instruct on the pathologies indicated for the use of the formulas recorded. The pathology part of the instruction will be a pure Neijing Suwen and Lingshu instruction, drawing from multiple chapters and passages. The second part of the instruction will elucidate on the architecture of the Tangye Jing formulas, and their relationship with Zhang Zhongjing’s formulas. Lastly, the final part of the formula instruction will concern the elaborate modification system presented in the Tangye Jing as a guide for advanced modifications of Zhang Zhongjing’s formulas.
Your instructor, Dr. Arnaud Versluys, will draw upon years of experience with Canonical Formulas, as well as his doctoral research performed in China on the Tangye Jing. The seminar is only open to ICEAM’s graduated Diplomates of Canonical Chinese Medicine.
28 NCCAOM CEU’s and California PDA’s pending

Case Studies and Formula Modifications of Dr. Tian Heming田鶴鳴
November 8, 2015
Tian Heming, was born in 1883 in the town of Jianyang 簡陽in Sichuan province, China. His birth name was Tian Qishang 田啟上, but he later adopted his older brother’s clinical moniker and started practicing under the studio name Tian Bawei 田八味, or Eight Ingredient Tian. He practiced medicine professionally in Chengdu nearby the Qingyang Temple in the area known as the Xie Family Pond xiejia chi 謝家池. He died peacefully at his home in Chengdu in 1980, enjoying the age of 97 years, during which he practiced medicine for over 70 years.
His brother Tian Qitai田啟泰, moved around the end of Qing dynasty, near the beginning of the Republic of China, from Jianyang to Chengdu, where he was a Confucian scholar-physician. He treated disease exclusively with Shanghan formulas. Tian Heming inherited his skill, and excelled and improved it, treating any and all condition with only Zhang Zhongjing formulas. Dr. Tian would see up to 300 patients every day and worked tirelessly through China’s tumult. The Tian family style of Chinese medicine is especially known for its advanced and intricate system of pulse diagnosis for canonical formulas.
Dr. Tian Heming trained many great physicians, most notably Dr. Zeng Rongxiu曾榮修former honorary director of ICEAM, and important Tian lineage holder.
In 1999, your instructor, Dr. Arnaud Versluys, met his ultimately lifelong teacher, Dr. Zeng Rongxiu 曾榮修, under whom he trained in traditional Shanghan Lun discipleship for 13 years. It continues to be Dr. Versluys’ life work to discover and reconstruct the clinical practice and theoretical underpinnings of the Tian family style of Canonical Formulas. Not only did he receive the full transmission of knowledge from his master, Dr. Zeng Rongxiu, the main representative of the Tian-Zeng branch of the lineage. But he has also received instructions from the late Dr. Zheng Guanglu鄭廣露; from Wu Tianfu吳天福, the widower of Dr. Tian’s granddaughter, and lineage holder Tian Yuxia 田玉俠; and from Dr. Tian’s sole surviving disciple, Dr. Huang Xuan黃旋. The converging of these four branches within Dr. Versluys have uniquely allowed him to synthesize and reconstruct the clinical style of pulse diagnosis and formula use and have made him into the sole living representative of the Tian system. This seminar is a worldwide first-ever distillation of fragmented knowledge in writings and anecdotes dispersed through the Tian lineage, gathered and organized for the sake of this instruction and the preservation of the system.
The seminar will present a biographical introduction to Dr. Tian and the structure of the lineage, along with instruction in a number of clinical cases by Dr. Tian. A second part of the seminar will be the instruction on Dr. Tian’s modification system for Zhang Zhongjing formulas, as well as his use of a select group of non-Zhang Zhongjing formulas.
7 NCCAOM CEU’s approved and CA PDA’s pending

Frankfurt - Diseases of the Jingui Yaolue, Part One
2015-08-20 - 2015-08-23 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany

Frankfurt - The Herb and Formula Archetypes: The Outer Circle, Part One
2015-08-13 - 2015-08-16 | ICEAM Frankfurt, Frankfurter Straße 59, Offenbach, 63067, Germany
