Subject: [UC]LA acu [for MDs]

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Sun, 03 Oct 2004 14:26:10 -0000, " kampo36 " <kampo36 wrote:

 

> The UCLA medical acupx course was designed by Joseph Helms, a student of

van Nghi,

Mussat, and other French MD-acupuncturists.

 

and Sun, 3 Oct 2004 11:35:23 -0700, from " "

<zrosenbe:

 

>This is probably the Helms course at UCLA, the " Medical Acupuncture "

group. They base much of their material on the work of Maurice Mussat, a

French physician who is into using Yi Jing and five phase in his

acupuncture theory outline.

 

Joe Helms is also at least a student of other directions in our field. He

and two other teachers (MDs) in his program were at the seminar with Paul

Unschuld back in 2003, and I have run into him at Jeffery Yuen weekend

workshops.

 

Iconically, he once expressed something of a frustration, from an MD's

perspective, at a perceived arrogance on the part of some TCMers, in claims

of superiority of their viewpoints. The way he put was similar to the way

many here have expressed frustrations with attitudes from the WM community.

 

My impression was that he (and one of his co-workers) feel strongly that

aspects of CM theory, as well as zhen-jiu techniques, provide an essential

complement to WM.