Chinese Pulse Diagnosis - The 3 step system of Chinese Pulse Reading

Chinese Pulse Diagnosis - The 3 step system of Chinese Pulse Reading

Course overview / structure

Taking our clients pulse is an opportunity for us to connect with their living, pulsing heart. The pulse is enormously delicate, and if we approach it with respect, we can gain much of the information we need for diagnosis and treatment. In this practical hands-on workshop you will learn how to identify and interpret the pulse enabling you to add this valuable clinical diagnostic skill to your own. This 2-day first stage workshop concentrates on developing your accuracy in feeling and naming the pulses, and broadens into the interpretation of the pulse according to Chinese medicine diagnosis. The pulse names and interpretations are based on the Nei Jing, Mai Jing and Bin Hu Mai Xue, although some discussion of Nan Jing and Shang Han Lun pulses can also arise. Learning the 3-Step System of Chinese Pulse Reading will give you a grounded starting point in identifying and clarifying specific pulses, from which variations in interpretation and naming can easily be identified. Many aspects of pulse reading are not subjective, and this workshop has proved time and again that if the naming system is clearly understood by everyone, a group of people will feel the same thing on the same pulse. This gives us a common language and enables us to communicate with each other about the pulse in a way that can help us develop and grow our practice.

What will I learn?

Day 1 will concentrate on you learning to feel and name the pulse. In this part of the workshop you will be encouraged to feel and clearly verbalise your own subjective pulses, to bring into working consciousness the enormously valuable information this can transmit. For example, a practitioner may put their hand on the pulse and feel a physical or emotional feeling, or even may see an image. Such things can be fleeting, and we often miss or dismiss them. Day 2 will concentrate on you learning to feel and interpret the pulse. You will be taught and then encouraged to identify and name the pulse accurately and objectively, according to the parameters laid out by the 28 Pulses of Chinese medicine. Finally, using the 3 Step System of Chinese Pulse Reading, you will be helped to integrate these two spheres of information into a coherent diagnosis and treatment, checking their pulse information against observation of the patients and tongue diagnosis. You will be rewarded in realising that this method of silent diagnosis is possible.

How many hours CPD? / course times

The day will run from 10.00am to 5.00pm on both days so is valid for 14 hours CPD.

Who is the course for? / attendance requirement

This practical hands-on 2-day course has been designed specifically for practitioners with little or no experience and knowledge in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), who have a desire to learn more about this clinical diagnostic tool.

Is the course assessed? / qualification

Both days intersperse lecture with hands-on practical sessions, and the emphasis on both days is on you developing further your sensitivity in feeling the pulse, and accuracy in placing your fingers in the correct place to take the pulse. The tutor will be giving continual feedback throughout both days and as participants you will be encouraged to work with each other. Qi gong is used to enhance this sensitivity, and numbers are strictly limited for maximum feedback from tutor/s.

Cost

£170.00 (early bird) £190.00 (full price)

Other information / NOTE / you will be supplied with...

Minimum number 8 people

Turor

Fran Turner