Treating Mental and Emotional Conditions with Chinese Medicine

Course overview

Chinese medicine has been treating mental-emotional complaints for all of its more than two-thousand-year history. This course teaches you how to diagnose and treat such complaints with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. This course covers: The body-mind relationship in Chinese medicine Disease causes and mechanisms affecting the spirit mind The pivotal role of liver depression and all its disease mechanisms Age, sex, and the menstrual cycles affect on the psyche Yin fire and gu worms as they relate to Chinese medical psychiatry Acupuncture and Chinese medicinals and psychiatric disorders The pattern discrimination of twenty traditional Chinese psychiatric disorders The pattern discrimination of twelve modern Western psychiatric disorders Qigong-induced psychological disturbances The spirit in Chinese medicine Heat, phlegm and blood stasis Psychotherapy and Chinese medicine