David Hartmann

From experience, when a Chinese medicine practitioner searches for content on how to treat emotions and mental health conditions (for our medicine), two key things occur. The first is that there is a significant lack of content; the second is that the content available is too foundational.

Let me ask you a question here: how many patients have you seen in your clinic present with anger as their main complaint? Or grief, fear, or joy? In fact, how often do you see any of the seven main emotions as primary patient complaints?

This course will introduce, and prioritize, the mental health conditions of stress, overwhelm and frustration. This will include a brief look at various treatment approaches across the centuries.
This will be followed by discussing the organ/element/eight extraordinary vessel relationships and acupuncture point combinations for stress, overwhelm and frustration. The webinar will also look at strategies for treating decision making issues (impulsive/hasty/indecisive) as well as timidity/shyness and patients that are withdrawn/passive.

This course will introduce the Heart Shén for its role as the primary source of all emotions, along with the Pericardium (Xīn Bāo) for its relationship to the Heart. We will then prioritize the mental health conditions of depression and anxiety. This will include a brief look at various treatment approaches across the centuries. Suicidal tendencies need some discussion using the water well/pit analogy plus the donkey/farmer analogy.

Welcome to part 3 of the acupuncture point combination series, which takes you on a journey through the Five Elements (Wǔ Xíng). These elements are typically not taught thoroughly at Chinese medicine institutions (unless it is a Five Elements school) and so it became clear to me that I needed to write a course that could access as many students and practitioners of our art as possible.