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The objectives of this 2-day symposium are:

1. To provide an update on current clinical practices and integrative management of select conditions in Reproductive Medicine and Women's Health, including Menopause, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), common gynecological malignancies as well as general fertility care.
2. Provide acupuncturists with practical clinical knowledge on how acupuncture / TCM can be integrated into the care of patients with the above-mentioned select conditions.
3. Provide acupuncturists with insight on the role of acupuncture / TCM in optimizing pregnancy ratesand the future of integrative fertility care.

Goals & Objectives
1. Understanding water metabolism in the treatment of pancreatic and prostate cancer
2. Understanding, diagnosing and treating the Shao Yang in the treatment of throat cancer
3. Understanding, diagnosing and treating the Yang Ming in the treatment of stage 4 lung cancer and more

Goals & Objectives

1. The participant will learn the YNSA needling points necessary for walking disorders.
2. The student will learn how YNSA is applied to a patient with neurological disease and how that can help in rehabilitation.
3. The student will learn what is an accurate walking pattern.

Outline:

• 830 - 900 Spermatogenesis (0.5 CEU)
• 900 - 930 Risk factors & lifestyle choices (0.5 CEU)
• 930 - 1000 Semen testing (0.5 CEU)
• 1000 - 1015 Conventional medicine (0.25 CEU)
• 1015- 1030 break
• 1030 - 1045 Case history taking (0.25 CEU)
• 1045 - 1245 Chinese medicine 4 patterns - acupuncture, herbs, cases (2.0 CEU)

Goals & Objectives:

• Learn the process of spermatogenesis
• Understand risk factors - what helps and what hinders healthy sperm production.
• Extend your case taking specifically for male infertility
• Analyze semen test results, and understand how to use them to assist your diagnosis and subsequent treatment
• Learn the main causes and Chinese medicine patterns associated with male infertility
• Formulate treatment strategies, point selections and herbal prescriptions

This will enable you to:

• Use both your TCM diagnosis and semen test results to create clear diagnoses and robust treatment plans
• Explain normal vs. optimal sperm parameters to your patient
• Offer simple lifestyle strategies to improve male fertility
• Successfully improve sperm quality and quantity, thereby male fertility

Goals and Outlines
Understand the etiology of emotional trauma and how it affects the physiology of the body in Chinese medicine. Comprehend the general diagnostic signs and symptoms of emotional trauma. Learn the three staged treatment approach to address emotional trauma and the various acupuncture prescriptions.

• Definition, causes, and pathophysiology of emotional trauma.
• Diagnosis of emotional trauma.
• 10:30 – 10:45 break
• Outline the three treatment approaches and detailed descriptions of the first two stages.
• 11:45-12:30 lunch
• Description of the third treatment approach
• Case studies, summary, Q&A, Program Worksheet

Goals & Objectives

1. You will learn how and why even experienced clinicians fail to effectively relieve hot flashes.
2. You will learn how to simultaneously diagnosis and treat excess and deficiency patho-mechanisms in unison to give you better clinical results.
3. You will understand and learn why treating the kidney is not always the most direct way to treating the menopausal transition patient.
4. You will learn to avoid common treatment pitfalls and clinical setbacks with your menopausal transition patient.

Goals and Objectives

At the completion of this symposium, the learner will:

• Understand the challenges presented by examining the Shen Nong Ben Cao (Divine Farmer’s Classic of Materia Medica) considering contemporary perspectives on Chinese herbal medicine
• Understand the basis on which the asserted distinction between classical Chinese medicine and traditional Chinese medicine leads to professional confusion and clinical narrowness
• Understand the strategies used by High Falls Garden in developing a safe, economical, and resilient supply of Chinese herbs grown in the United States
• Understand the appropriate clinical application of Ephedra Sinensis (Ma Huang) in gynecology
• Understand the relevance and importance of maintaining NCCAOM herbal certification to the professional practice of Chinese herbal medicine in the United States

Detailed Content

•  Overview of Goals of SNS
• The Divine Farmer’s Message to Modern Practitioners of Chinese Medicine (Wilms)
• A Frog at the Bottom of the Well: Why Siloing and Polarization in East Asian Medicine Leads to Poor Patient Outcomes (Mitchell)
• Growing East Asian Herbs in the US: UPDATE (Giblette)
• Opening the Door: The Use of Ma Huang in Gynecology (Frank)
• “Can We Talk? On the Topic of Regulations and Credentials (Travaglione)

Goals and Objectives

• review of the endocrine glands, plus the organs containing aggregate endocrine cells
• review of the Autonomic Nervous System: sympathetic, parasympathetic and enteric
• review of ANS: allostasis vs homeostasis + review of the hormonal mechanisms of the stress response
• review of the HPA, the HPO/HPG, plus the insulin feedback loops
• discussion of the endocrine associations of heart-mind
• discussion of the key acupoints points and their surrounding channel points, both anterior and posterior + related arm and leg channel points at these endocrine levels: Du 20 / Yin Tang / Ren 22 / Ren 17 / Ren 12 / Ren 7 / Ren 3

Outline

Part 1 
An introduction to the neurobiology of the stress response + a discussion of the neurobiology of the conception cascade.

• endocrine review
• the emotions of infertility
• the Chinese medicine toolkit
• emotional associations to endocrine function: from the ayurvedic, buddhist and yogic traditions
• Bao Gong/Bao Zhong/Bao Mai/Bao Luo
• channel system interconnections via the Sheng & Ke Cycle model
• homeostasis vs allostasis
• stress response mechanism
• the enteric nervous system as related to the Chinese medicine theory of ‘Fats & Membranes’ and thier role in endocrine function
• in-depth acupoint discussion for treatment of the ‘Fats & Membrane’
• the limbic system and the neuroscience of love: dopamine, oxytocin, serotonin, norepinephrine
• gut inflammation

Part 2
Discussion of each endocrine gland in function/dysfunction on both the physical and emotional levels, including a review of the effect of insulin on the reproductive hormones.
Acupoint discussion relating to each endocrine level.

• Hypothalamus/Pituitary - physical & emotional associations
• review of the ‘Master gland’ function throughout the endocrine system
• Du 20 and related channel points
• Pineal - physical & emotional associations
• Yin Tang and related channel points
• Review of circadian rhythms and this importance of serotonin/melatonin balance
• discussion of 12 channel horary points
• Thyroid - physical & emotional associations
• Ren 22 and related channel points
• the link between thyroid dysfunction and infertility
• Thymus - physical & emotional associations
• Ren 17 and related channel points
• links to lymphatic and immune systems
• Pancreas - physical & emotional associations
• Ren 12 and related channel points
• relation of Solar Plexus to pancreas level and the psoas muscle
• review of the importance of insulin balance to the reproductive hormone balance
• the importance of BMI

Part 3

Continued discussion of each endocrine gland in function/dysfunction on both the physical and emotional levels, plus acupoint discussion relating to each endocrine level.

• The Adrenal Glands
• the cortex vs medulla
• HPA axis
• the importance of cortisol balance

• Ovaries - physical & emotional associations
• Ren 7 and related channel points
• HPO axis
• folliculogenesis
• causes of ovulatory dysfunction
• Testes - physical & emotional associations
• Ren 3 and related channel points
• spermatogenesis

Part 4

Emotional impediments that can negatively affect endocrine function + discussion of acupoints that influence allostatic endocrine function.

• The emotional impact of not conceiving and resultant impact on the endocrine system
• Point discussions:
• The 4 Seas
• The Kidney Chest Points
• Treating the Bao Mai
• Useful point combinations
• Ren 1
• The 8 Extraordinary Vessels
• The 8 Influential Points
• The 5 Shu Transporting Points

Goals & Objectives

Participants will learn to recognize evolutionary stress and the impact it has on health especially as it relates to the Extra Fu.

Participants will explore the connections between the Extra Fu and the 8 Extraordinary Vessels and learn to diagnose pathology at the level of yuan qi.

Participants will be introduced to the concepts necessary to create 8 Extraordinary vessel treatments to support the Extra Fu.

Outline

Overview of the Extraordinary Fu
Correspondences between the Extra Fu and the 8 Extraordinary vessels
Jing-Shen and the evolution of consciousness

The Brain: Consciousness and Capacity for evolutionary
Marrow: Heredity, Immunity and Nourishment

Bones: Record of life’s experiences and what is left behind
Uterus: Birth of Creativity, Procreation and Immortality
Vessels: Circulation, Communication and the Capacity to hold experience
Gall Bladder: Courage in the face of change

The 8 Extras- important intersections with Extra Fu and conditions associated with Extra Fu

Creating 8 Extra treatments
Conclusion

Goals

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to

• Identify and apply dynamic interactions.
• Identify and apply static interactions.
• Understand the principles behind the meridian code and how to apply the Guas to the individual meridians.
• Know the symptomology and indications for each of the 12 patterns.
• Understand the three main paradigms in which the 12 patterns are created.

1. The six levels of YIN and Yang.
2. The three levels of UAT model.

• The three relationships of the midday midnight coupled with the entry exit relationship.

• Know and be able to create the treatment of each of the 12 patterns using eight needles in total.
• Understand and be able to apply the six patterns used for vertical meridian diagnosis in pain or other affections of the meridians.
• Understand and be able to apply the six patterns used in insomnia, anxiety and depression.

Understand and be able to apply the four patterns for external attacks.

Course Outline

• General introduction + Introduction to UAT model
• Summary of dynamic interactions, static interactions and meridian code 
• Introduction to the 12 patterns
• The six levels of the meridians 
• Three levels of UAT model 
• Midday midnight with entry exit points 
• Yang Ming with midday midnight 
• Tai Yang with midday midnight 
• Shao Yang with midday midnight 
• Six patterns related to placement of illness on vertical lines
• Six patterns for depression, insomnia and anxiety
• Summary of theory