Advanced TrainingProgram based on the Medical Canons

Shang Han Lun Seminars is excited to announce a golden opportunity for advanced training in the Shang Han Lun style of medicine while earning over 100 CEUs!

The Shang Han Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage) is the seminal text that serves as the root of Chinese and Oriental medicine at large. It has been argued that the basic system of identifying signs and symptoms and defining a conformation leading directly to treatment was created in the Shang Han Lun. 

Jing Fang Yi XueCertainly it is the oldest surviving text that defines diagnosis and treatment with such clarity. However, due to minimal presentation at TCM schools, most practitioners operate under the mistaken idea that this is a book simply for treating “colds and flu” and so don’t relate it to the complicated, chronic issues they face daily in their clinics. Nothing could be further from the truth! The idea of cold damage may be viewed metaphorically as representing the patient’s loss of the ability to harmoniously interact with Nature and the world around them. Read More

 

 

The medical Canons transmit many layers of wisdom that require guidance from a teacher steeped in their tradition. Here is an exceptional chance to study with just such a teacher!

Dr. Arnaud Versluys is one of the very few Western scholars to have received his full medical training in China. He spent over ten years at the Chinese medical universities of Wuhan, Beijing and Chengdu, where he consecutively pursued his Bachelor, Master and Doctor Degrees in Chinese medicine and acupuncture. Click to read further on Dr. Versluys or click to see Z'ev Rosenbergs comments.