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SUMMER 2019 www.pacificcollege.edu See Inside For More Details As We Begin the Fourth John Chen and Holly Guzman will present two- Decade of Pacific Symposium… hour workshops to fulfill NCCAOM safety and ethics It is inspiring to see both the pioneers and the requirements. newer generations of practitioners continuing to advance Keeping it fresh, Pacific Symposium is pleased to introduce the our medicine, often in remarkable and Philps-Burnoutsurprising ways. This year following speakers to our audience for the first time: Susan Johnson, we bring our diverse faculty to the beautiful Catamaran Resort, on Amy Albright, Deirdre Courtney, Hillary Thing, and Dustin Dillberg, as the San Diego Bay and one block from the Pacific Ocean. well as the aforementioned Stephen Cowan and Moshe Heller. While It is always rewarding to see medical doctors who fully embrace new to Pacific Symposium, they represent decades of clinical experi- Chinese medicine. We are honored to host Stephen(1,9,34,35) Cowan, MD, for a ence across a fascinating array of topics. You will want to see them two-day workshop before the main event. He will present the Western again! concept of the neuro-gastro-immune complex that classical Chinese We have two very special evening events. Jason Prall, producer of medicine conceptualized two thousand years ago as the San Jiao. He will the Human Longevity Project will share experiences and scenes from apply both as means to understanding the dynamic processes of child the project and discuss the effects of circadian rhythm and chronobiol- development and treating chronic inflammation that manifest as fibromy- ogy in a clinical setting. Grammy-nominated artists Rick Gold and Ron algia, allergies, intolerances, anxieties, and developmental disorders such Yuval, with special guest Úyanga Bold, will discuss the healing effects as ADHD and autism. Moshe Heller will also address pediatric allergies in of sound and demonstrate its power. during the main event. Last but not least, our community. While Cowan and Heller address children, Claudia Citkovitz will Every year old and new friends gather together to learn, share and cel- show us how to care for the new mothers. Stellar veteran faculty Jeffrey ebrate. Whether you join the Symposium in person or online through our Yuen, Matt Callison, and Brian Bradley will address physical medicine easy-to-use distance education platform, we welcome you. OM and treatment of pain. Other veterans like Lillian Bridges, Jill Blakeway, Kiiko Matsumoto, and Janet Zand, Bill Helm, Robert Nations, and Chad See you soon. Conner will cover everything from CBDs to the microbiome to qi gong. – Jack Miller, President of Pacific College of Oriental Medicine COPE: A Strategy INSIDE THIS ISSUE.... PAID PRSRT STD PRSRT U.S. POSTAGE Bolingbrook, IL PERMIT NO.932 for Turning Burnout 3 Moving the Needle 3 Diagnostic Ashi Points: A into Breakthrough Focus on Muscle Motor Points By EAST PHILLIPS, DAOM, LAc 4 Treat Women’s Diseases with 11.06 Return to the Nest and 11.24 Gynecological Points ou’re driving down the road, to work. You might hear yourself say and your check engine light things like: Yuval Ron: Sound is the comes on. “Hmm, that’s “Ugh, I have to go to work to- 6 Y Future Medicine strange,” you might say to yourself. morrow,” instead of “I get to go to What do you do? If you’re like most work tomorrow.” of us, you probably just ignore it. “I hope my patient(s) cancel 8 Sulfa, Sulfite, Sulfate and Maybe it will go away, right? Then tomorrow,” instead of “I hope more Sulfur: True Allergy, you start to hear some weird noises people schedule with me tomorrow.” Cross-Allergy or No Allergy coming from your engine. Clonk, You might start experiencing bonk, rattle, bump. “Hmm. So odd,” headaches, insomnia, or body aches 10 Supporting Ovarian Reserve you ponder. Solution? Turn up the and pains. Your burnout is getting with Chinese Medicine radio, of course. Then, a little further worse when you find yourself com- down the road, steam comes out plaining more frequently and making The Lymph System: Our from under the hood of your car, statements like these: 11 and you are forced to pull over be- “Oh, my Gosh! My patients are Silent Protector cause you can’t even drive with bil- driving me crazy!” lowing smoke blocking your view. “I can’t stand working when so 12 Classical Five-Element So how does that look for us, the and so is in the office.” Acupuncture: Two More practitioners, students, business own- “I don’t even have time to think Powerful Treatment Strategies ers, and educators of complementary anymore.” and alternative medicine (CAM)? “I’m getting so out of shape. I 17 Pacific Symposium 2019 Well, just like your car, the warn- feel crappy.” ing signs start off soft and subtle and “I don’t have enough money.” Lyme Treatment Success get louder and louder until you are “I can’t remember the last time I 31 forced to address the problem. got a treatment for myself.” with Chinese Medicine It starts when you no longer look forward to treating people or going continued on page 9 32 Our Congee Calling 7445 Mission Valley Rd., Suite 105 San Diego, CA 92108 www.PacificCollege.edu 800-729-0941 Moving the Needle By JILL BLAKEWAY, DACM switches them off again once the was the impetus needed to produce The following is an excerpt from Jill Blakeway’s new book, tasks are complete. The scientists in life struck me as meaningful: an Energy Medicine: The Science and Mystery of Healing, published by Edinburgh realized that they had the electrical energy that was a vital ani- Harper Collins in April 2019. ingredients for creating life within mating source sounded a lot like the their grasp—if they could unlock this Chinese concept of qi to me. cell’s potential, making it behave as The idea that the body has elec- n 1996, scientists at the Roslin DNA of a sperm to create an embryo. if it were young again. In an inspired trical properties dates back to 1789, Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, In lieu of sperm, however, the re- move—and employing a somewhat when an Italian physicist, Luigi Gal- I were keeping a radical project searchers removed the egg’s incom- Frankenstein-like concept—they in- vani, made a discovery while dis- under wraps. Unbeknownst to the plete DNA and replaced it with a full troduced a tiny electric charge into secting a dead frog. He touched the rest of the world, including their col- set of DNA taken from a cell of that the process. Amazingly, this was the frog’s exposed sciatic nerve with a leagues in the scientific community, same adult female sheep’s body. spark needed to bring the egg to charged metal scalpel and noticed they were attempting to clone a And then the researchers hit a life. Thus Dolly the sheep, the first that the leg flexed as if the frog were sheep. Their plan was simple—or so wall. The DNA from a mature cell mammal ever to be cloned from the alive. (The word, “galvanize”—mean- they thought. First, the team removed is technically complete, but it has cell of an adult animal—and our first ing to stimulate, or stir to life, with an unfertilized egg from an adult fe- also lost some of its capacity. As it ovine celebrity—was introduced to electricity—was coined in tribute male sheep and extracted its DNA. ages, an adult cell switches on the the world in 1997. to Galvani.) Two years later, he re- Thanks to a process called meiosis, parts of its DNA necessary to fulfill I was a student at Chinese medi- ported these findings in an academic the DNA of an egg is incomplete, a specific function, such as creating cal school at the time, and the news which allows it to combine with the a bone or even a freckle, and then intrigued me. The idea that electricity continued on page 5 Diagnostic Ashi Points: A Focus on Muscle Motor Points By MATT CALLISON, LAc Points That Reflect the Status of the rate motor point locations for precise This article is an excerpt from the soon-to-be-published textbook Sports Zang Fu.” Figure 2 summarizes the electrode pad placement.2 Motor Medicine Acupuncture: An Integrated Approach to Combining Sports types of points within each of these point locations are also important for Medicine and Traditional Chinese Medicine. categories. neurological interventions such as botulism injection for spasticity due For the purposes of this article, to cerebral palsy and for the loca- he Chinese term ashi, trans- obstruction syndrome, muscle imbal- we will now focus on a common di- tion of efficient nerve block injection lated as “that’s the point” or ance, and acute or recurring injury, agnostic ashi point: the muscle motor sites.3-4 T sometimes as another exple- the channels and collaterals respond point. The following information on The electrophysiological defini- tive, indicates pain upon palpation in a predictable manner by manifest- muscle motor points is a cumulation tion of a muscle motor point is still of the tissue. Ashi points were first ing ashi tenderness. For example, of the author’s 20+ years of experi- not universally agreed upon and mentioned in the Tang Dynasty text front-mu and back-shu points become ence in combining Western research, finding precise motor point locations Thousand Ducat Prescriptions and tender from organ pathology, while extensive cadaver dissection, and has proven challenging.5 In fact, the they are still used today to treat mus- a cleft-xi point becomes tender from TCM theory.