Placing Anxiety Within Six Channel Physiology

Diagnosing psycho-emotional complaints using Applied Channel Theory （經絡醫學 jīng luò yī xué）

Psycho-emotional complaints, like any other clinical complaint, can be conceived of as a dominant symptom within a pattern（證 zhèng）of illness. This lecture will describe common patterns of anxiety-related complaints including concurrent symptoms, palpation in diagnosis and useful acupuncture strategies.    The use of a pattern-based approach to describe and treat psycho-emotional complaints will allow for clinical flexibility while providing tools for patient education and empowerment.

Students will learn:

•       Classical models for viewing emotions within normal organ-channel physiology
•       Common patterns of emotional disharmony in the modern clinic
•       Diagnostic differentiation strategies (eg. palpation, observation and questioning)
•       Useful point pairings for common complaints including specific point locations

Dr. Jason D. Robertson, is a licensed acupuncturist and educator in Seattle, WA USA. Dr. Robertson spent 8 years studying Chinese language and then medicine in Taiwan and China.  He is the author of numerous articles on acupuncture channel theory and palpatory diagnostic techniques. In 2008, along with Professor Wang Ju-Yi (王居易) he co-authored Applied Channel Theory in Chinese Medicine (Eastland Press, Seattle). Besides his work as a clinician and author, Mr. Robertson is a member of the core faculty at the Seattle Institute of East Asian Medicine and teaches classes on acupuncture diagnostic techniques in schools and seminars around the world.