The Chinese Herb Academy -- Conference Details

Attend the 2004 CHA Conference Online on the Herbal Broadcasting Station

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1. handouts from most speakers
2. powerpoint presentations
3. special bonus articles
4. chinese terminology file in unicode format

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Chinese Herb Academy 2nd Annual Conference

Plurality in Practice: Past & Present

June 18-20, 2004
San Diego, CA

Sponsored by Redwing Book Company, Pacific College of Oriental Medicine, Blue Poppy Enterprises, Kan Herb Company, American Acupuncture Council, Health Concerns, Arbor International, The Inner Path, Vision Medical Supplies, Qualiherb, Qpuncture and Golden Flower Chinese Herbs

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The Chinese Herb Academy Conference is an annual gathering for serious students and practitioners of Chinese Herbology. We invite leaders in the field to come share their current passions in order to provoke further research and discussion in these areas. All the speakers are professional educators, most of whom have learned to read Chinese so they have access to the wealth of information available only in the Chinese language. Each one of our speakers also has extensive clinical experience applying that knowledge in their day-to-day practice for many years. The Chinese Herb Academy is committed to giving its students the best of all worlds. Scholars who are also teachers and practitioners provide you with depth of knowledge, practical experience and best of all, the ability to dynamically convey their insights to an audience.

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Bob Flaws is Blue Poppy's principal instructor. He is also the co-founder and CEO of Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc. Bob began his study of acupuncture and Chinese medicine in 1977 and has been in practice for over 20 years. Originally a student of (Eric) Tao Xi-yu of Denver, Bob went on to study acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and tui na at the Shanghai College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is one of the most famous English language teachers, authors, and practitioners of Chinese medicine in the world today, having published scores of books and hundreds of articles on all aspects of Chinese medicine. Bob is an NCCAOM Diplomate of Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs, a Fellow and past Governor of the National Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, a founder, past president, and Lifetime Fellow of the Acupuncture Association of Colorado, and a Fellow of the Register of Chinese Herbal Medicine (UK). Bob is a polished public speaker, an effective teacher, and an insightful thinker. He is renowned for the knowledge, clarity, and passion he brings to his work.
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In this lecture, Misha Cohen will explore the interrelationship and integration of clinical Chinese herbal medicine practice and Chinese herbal research.

Misha Cohen has been practicing Asian Medicine for 27 years. In the mid-1980’s, she began to formally conduct herbal and acupuncture research at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center in HIV/AIDS. She created the San Francisco AIDS Alternative Healing Project in 1985 and the Quan Yin Herbal Program for HIV/AIDS in 1987 and gathered observational data from 1985-1990 in collaboration with Dr. Subhuti Dharmananda of the Institute for Traditional Medicine and Dr. Qing Cai Zhang of the Oriental Healing Arts Institute. Her collaboration with Western physicians at San Francisco General Hospital in a double-blind placebo pilot clinical trial using Chinese herbal medicine for HIV+ persons in 1992-1993 led to the first peer-reviewed published study of Chinese herbal medicine for HIV (JAIDS, 1996).

Misha has also been a co-investigator in four additional completed university studies: a peer-reviewed published study of herbal medicine for HIV-related symptoms at the Zürich University Hospital, Zürich, Switzerland (JAIDS, 1999) and was co-investigator with Dr. Donald Abrams of the UCSF AIDS Community Consortium in two studies related to HIV chronic diarrhea (peer-reviewed and published in Integrative Medicine, 1999) and mild to moderate anemia in HIV/AIDS. The most recent collaboration was in a basic science herbal research study for ovarian cancer with Dr. Bethan Powell at the UCSF Cancer Center. Dr. Cohen also was principal investigator in a Quan Yin study of the use of acupuncture in co-infection with HIV/hepatitis viruses (1988). She is currently collaborating with three University of California San Francisco research teams. At the UCSF Cancer Center, she is a co-investigator in an NIH/NCI funded study of the use traditional Chinese medicine in anal neoplasia and is an investigator in a proposed acupuncture study for cancer-related neuropathy in ovarian cancer.

She is currently collaborating with the UCSF Institute for Health and Aging in a study of acupressure for nausea in breast cancer chemotherapy and two proposed studies: 1) acupuncture for dementia-related depression in the elderly, and 2) topical herbal medicine for radiation burns in breast cancer. She is also collaborating with the UCSF OB/GYN Department in a study on the use of herbs and Chinese medicine for endometriosis. She is part of a team proposing Chinese traditional medicine and nutrition research with MDs at UCSF and California Pacific Medical Center in conjunction with the Hepatitis C Caring Ambassadors World-Class Brainstorming Team. This team is currently doing a chart review study of the use of Chinese traditional medicine protocol along with interferon/ribavirin treatment. Dr. Cohen has also created Chinese traditional medicine treatment protocols for PMS, infertility, hepatitis, HIV, and menopausal syndromes which are used at Quan Yin Healing Arts Center and Chicken Soup Chinese Medicine. She has also developed herbal formulas for HIV, Hepatitis C, chronic viral illness, cancer support, fibromyalgia, and the common cold.
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Case study literature has been an important part of Chinese medicine for many centuries. Through the case study genre, literate pre-modern Chinese doctors revealed their diagnostics, clinical reasoning, medicinal formulations, and literary skill. Some of these works are revered not only for their clinical value but also for their literary excellence. As such, these works provide modern doctors and scholars of Chinese medicine with a window into the pre-modern Chinese medical mind. Bob Damone will present his translations of some of the most renowned examples of these case studies and discuss their clinical significance.

This two-hour workshop will present several different examples of cases translated by the presenter, and will dicuss the clinical relevance of these cases to the modern practice of Chinese medicine. The presenter will lead a deep exploration of the clinical reasoning revealed in the selected case studies. Examples from some of the major famous Chinese physicians and case study authors will be distributed and presented including the case studies of Ye Tian-Shi. The presenter will emphasize the modern clinical application of the ideas exhibited by each case study. The selected case studies will provide a view into the clinical reasoning of these famous doctors.

Mr. Damone is a professional, engaging, and very experienced teacher. He has been a faculty member at three major institutions of Chinese medical education and consistently receives only the highest evaluations from his students. He has attended numerous faculty in-services on modern teaching methodology including adult learning theory, questioning methodology, and case-based learning theory. Bob has been translating Chinese for almost 15 years and currently is a translator and editor for Paradigm Publications. His current project is Ten Lectures on Formulas from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu De, the companion volume to Jiao's critically acclaimed medicinal text. He is also editing a translation of a classical gynecology treatise. Bob recently gave up the Chair of Clinical Studies at PCOM to pursue advanced studies in Chinese language and to devote more time to his translation work. He maintains a private practice and consultation service in San Diego, California.
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David Frierman, L.Ac. was raised in southern California. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 1966 with a BA in Anthropology, and then pursued a career in music. In the early 1980's David began to study martial arts with a taijichuan master. Master Chen was also an accomplished acupuncturist and herbalist, and David began his studies of Chinese medicine with him. After a few years David enrolled in acupuncture school and graduated in 1989 from the San Francisco College of Acupuncture. He began a community-based low-fee acupuncture clinic with two classmates in Portland Oregon. In 1996 he began volunteering one day a week at Outside-In, a private, non-profit social service agency that focuses on homeless youth. Due to the generous efforts of the staff of Outside In, the National College of Naturopathy Medicine, and the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, this clinic has developed into a full service Chinese Medical Clinic serving the needs of the homeless and indigent. It is open five days a week for a total of 48 hours, with low cost or free acupuncture and free herbs. Most of the clinic shifts are staffed by Interns from NCNM and OCOM supervised by senior Chinese supervisors. David remains Clinical Director and supervises some shifts of Interns. David recently wrote Clinical Nephrology in Chinese Medicine with his revered teacher Dr. Wei Li.

This lecture consists of several parts. The first reviews current thinking about the most commonly mentioned herbs that raise yang, each herb's special use and representative formulas for that use. The second discusses "bearing" in regards to these herbs, but also in the relation between macrocosm and microcosm with references to the yi jing and Li Dong Yuan's ideas about the role of central qi. This section ends with a brief discussion of the importance of bearing in current approaches to difficult diseases and in a few illustrative formulas. The third section discusses yin fire. This is a lengthy discussion that puts yin fire in the context of Chinese medicine's history of concern about fire and its relation to yuan and zhen qi. It discusses yin fire as pathological ministerial fire and its implications. It reviews contemporary scholars' theories of the mechanism of qi deficiency causing heat and fire, and ends with a discussion of Li's theory, which relies on the wu xing. The fourth section discusses Li Dong Yuan's use of herbs to raise yang, first his general theory, then his use of individual herbs. The last section answers the question, "why did Li decide to formulate Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang when he had been using jing fang successfully?" It also briefly reviews Bu Zhong Yi Qi Tang and some related formulas.
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Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac. - Transmission from the Source: Why the Classics of Chinese Medicine are Important

This lecture focuses on a controversial topic in a new light: What is the essence of the classics, and what are the compelling reasons for a 21st century Oriental medicine practitioner to engage with them? A philosophical discussion on the nature of our profession, sagehood, human destiny, and the concept of transmission. Heiner Fruehauf, Ph.D., L.Ac., studied sinology, philosophy, and comparative literature at Tubingen University, Fudan University, Hamburg University, Waseda University, and the University of Chicago, where he earned a doctoral degree from the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations in 1990. Since completing two years of post-doctoral research at Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine he has published widely on both the theoretical and clinical aspects of Oriental medicine. Presently, he serves as professor and chair of the Classical Chinese Medicine Department at National College of Naturopathic Medicine in Portland, Oregon, where he has been teaching since 1992. His scholarly endeavors include the direction of an ongoing research project on the alchemical symbolism of the acupuncture point names. He also leads annual study tours on qigong and other aspects of traditional cultivation into the mountains of Western China.
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Craig Mitchell - Did You Know that Ma Huang Tang treats Dysmenorrhea?: Curious Cases Using Classical Formulas

Craig E. Mitchell, M.S., L.Ac is a graduate of the American College of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is the translator of Shang Han Lun: On Cold Damage, Translation and Commentaries (Paradigm), on which he collaborated with Nigel Wiseman and Feng Ye. He worked with Andy Ellis at the Spring Wind Herb Company in the early 90's. From 1994-97, he lived and worked in Taiwan, studying and practicing Chinese medicine. During this period he studied intensively with Nigel Wiseman in the area of medical Chinese. Teaching since 1997, Craig is currently the Dean of Students at the Seattle Institute of Oriental Medicine where he sees patients and teaches in the areas of Chinese language, herbal medicine, and classical Chinese medicine. He maintains a private practice in Seattle. Recently, he participated in the translation of Ten Lectures on the Use of Medicinals from the Personal Experience of Jiao Shu-De (Paradigm), which was published in 2003. He is currently participating in a follow-up to this work, which considers Jiao Shu-De's use of medicinal formulas.
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