Insomnia: TCM Experts Share their Unique Strategies for Treating Insomnia
| Item | Details | Available | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Insomnia: TCM Experts Share their Unique Strategies for Treating Insomnia | immediately after purchase | for 2 years |
Five TCM experts share their unique strategies for treating insomnia.
This is part of the ICCM 2021 online conference. Videos and handouts become available March 1, 2021. Register before March to save on the early bird discounted rate. The online, on-demand lectures are released on March 1st.
Goals and Outlines
Part 1: Treating Insomnia with UAT: Using Saam 4 Needles and I Ching Patterns to treat sleeping disorders
- Understand the meridian clock and the transition from daytime to night time
- Be able to apply 2 Saam patterns for sleep problems
- Be able to apply 2 I Ching Ba Gua patterns for sleep patterns
- Understand how to differentiate between the 4 patterns of the course
Part 2: Insomnia and the Modern World Diagnosis and Acupuncture strategies
- Understand the Western physiology of sleep
- Understand the Health consequences of insomnia
- Understand the Chinese energetics of sleep
- Learn the primary acupuncture points for insomnia
Part 3: The Yang of Sleep: Using the Yang Qiao to Treat Insomnia
- Participants will review good sleep hygiene to reduce external stimuli.
- Participants will learn the pathway points and functions of the Yang Qiao.
- Participants will explore treatment strategies for the Yang Qiao & insomnia.
- Participants will learn points that open the Pericardium loop to free emotional constraint and allows the Wei qi to internalize at night.
Part 4: Treatment of Insomnia with Classical Formulas
- To learn the basic single mechanism for insomnia
- To differentiate the single mechanism into Yang vs Yin insomnia
- To differentiate most common types of insomnia in both Yang and Yin categories
- To differentiate insomnia from other related issues
To grasp key principles and the herbal formulas that go with those principles
Part 5: A Five Spirits Approach to Treating Insomnia and Anxiety
- Understand of insomnia and anxiety through the lens of wushen
- Deepen their understanding of the role of the blood as the yin matrix of the soul and spirit and the treatment of deficient blood from a Five Spirits perspective
- Understand the Heart monarch’s role in regulating sleep and dreams as described in classical texts
- Learn specific points as well as adjunct treatments to treat these conditions
- Learn sleep meditation and breathing practices to support their patients in developing better sleep patterns