This is a lecture that I gave at the invitation of the Connecticut Society of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in March, 2013. The lecture was given in the Sandyhook town hall. Many of the practitioners had donated significant time to administering to the needs of the community in the wake of the tragedy that had occurred there in December of 2012.
In this class I discuss how to diagnose and treat trauma with Chinese medicine. We will consider the heart/kidney axis as the physiological foundation of stability and how to restore integrity to this most important relationship. I will emphasize the importance of the practitioner’s awareness of the dimension of self that is never wounded or traumatized as a gold standard in diagnosis and treatment. I discuss how to diagnose shock to the heart and circulatory system on the pulse and how to address it with both herbs and acupuncture. Diagnosing and treating possession is discussed for clearing shock as well as discuss the use of various acupuncture points.
Time was limited here so I was unable to present all that I could have. Most notably omitted was a detailed discussion of the upper kidney points, the importance of draining “Aggressive Energy” (AE, xieqi, and of opening and freeing the diaphragm. I have provided a list of resources from my own work below to help those who want to further their research in this area.
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