Classsical Formulas from the Shang Han Lun with Dr Huang Huang

I thought I would Blog a little over my week of filming and learning with Dr Huang Huang and 30 other curious practitioners.
The course officially starts on Friday August 1st (Tomorrow at the time of this writing). But for me it began tonight. About 12 of us went out for dinner along with Dr. Huang Huang. Let see if I can remember their names (Andrea the translator who has been in Bei Jing that past 3 years, Dr Hunag' wife, Dr Huang, Andy Ellis who many may know from his books and Spring wind herbs.... by the way he is working with growers in China on growing organic herbs which is a good reason to support Spring Wind herbs, Sharon Weizenbaum who I am already grateful for not only organizing this seminar but also for including me in Dr Huang's welcoming dinner tonight, Sharon's boyfriend Peter, Jennifer who practices with Sharon, Jennifer's husband Ethan - they are newlyweds and Dr Huang was asked to give advice on how to make a marriage last .. if you are interested ask I can go into detail, Amy who has studies with Dr Huang before and also speaks and reads Chinese, jack who does some community acupuncture out of Sharon's clinic plus practices TCM elsewhere and Cara who was a chef in her past life and traveled by car from Philadelphia .

So I hope to share some clinical pearls from each day. Maybe some of the others will participate as well and some good tips.
I started to mention how the course began for me tonight before I impressed myself with remembering the names of everyone around the large table (at least I hope I got it right). He shared with us about treating teenage acne very well with Gui Zhi Fu Ling Wan. many boys do not want to take it because the description talks about gynecological symptoms. He says clinically it works well for those who have the deep painful and purple acne in teenage years. I can go with that. The acne pattern he is describing sounds like blood stasis and Gui Zhi Fu Ling fits well. He shared how stress and facial tics and anxiety can be treated with it Wen Dan Tang.

My first impression i she is kind and gentle man that really cares and wants to share his knowledge. Should be a good week.

Lorne
www.prodseminars.com
www.acubalance.ca

I am writing on our lunch break of day one of our eight days with Dr. Huang Huang. The first I met was Stven from Chicago. Small world as his in laws live in British Columbia and he is visiting Vancouver (where I live and practice) in two weeks. I look forward to meeting up with him and showing him Acubalance

I was curious how in depth we would be going into herbs and formulas. Being the director of Pro D Seminars i get to see all kinds of seminars and I have to say this looks like it will be the most in depth study of herbs I have experiences. So Dr Huang spent the full morning going over Gan Cao. Over two and half hours on Gan Cao and using it in formulas. It is one of those things you have to be here to see how impressive and useful this information is. I can see already this is a very practical course for the clinician. You can apply this knowledge immediately in your clinic.

I do not know if you experience this like often do, but the more I meet these masters and surround myself with highly motivated practitioners (and Chinese reading practitioners the more I realize how little I know. There is so much history and depth to Chinese medicine it is really a life time of fun learning.

I will keep you posted as the week progresses.

Lorne
www.acubalance.ca
www.prodseminars.com

WOW! This sounds like a great program!!
thanks for sharing your experience, it's very motivating.

for others interested in learning about Shang Han Lun style, from a previous posting...a great program coming to California with Arnaud Versluys PhD (in shang han lun medicine!!)

check it out
www.shanghanlunseminars.com

I am still
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Thanks for letting us know about another Shang Han Lun Seminar.
Pro D Seminars has been branding itself as only offering courses by top practitioners. We only work with high level practitioners/teachers so you can feel confident you are receiving high quality information. Please note Pro D is not organizing this seminar BUT I have heard positive feedback about Arnaud Verluys teachings. So this is really unbias. One delegate here at Huang's seminar shared her rave reviews of his seminars. According to her he is the real deal.

Just thought I would share this info with those who are hearing about his seminar for the first time in keeping with the spirit of Chinese Medicine Tools... to Share grow and connect.

If anyone else has studies with Arnaud Verluys please share your experience.

Lorne
www.prodseminars.com
www.acubalance.ca

There have been lots of talk about meeting online to continue our studies of what we have been learning with Dr. Huang. I will set up a private group for us. Anyone who went to Nan Jing and did not attend this seminar can also join. Also, if you get your hands on the distance learning version of this course you can also join the group. We can put up notes here, studies, case studies and have forum discussions. Plus CMT will be launching a video chat here so we can meet live on line and see each other while we chat about cases. It will look like the Brady Bunch. So I will do my best to invite all who are participating this week. It will be private (if I do it right) so only those who have been invited can have access. Let me know if you want to be a moderator who can allow approve request of those wanting to join.

Lorne
www.acubalance.ca
www.prodseminars.com

Hi Kimberly. We just wrapped up day 3 of filming and we have 4 more days to go. Then editing and production. Our hopes our before end of 2008. We hope to offer through Pro D seminars. If we do it will be listed here

Lorne
www.acubalance.ca
www.prodseminars.com