Mastery of TCM / acupuncture

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Hi All, & Christopher

 

In the last 2 days I had long discussions with Prof Duck-Hwan KIM. He

has come to Ireland from Daejon (South Korea) for a 1-month stay to

research bee-venom-injection acupuncture in dogs.

 

Prof KIM [ http://tinyurl.com/aq3ar ] is a Prof of Large Animal Medicine,

and ex-Dean of the Chungnam Vet School. He also has studied and

continues to study) traditional Korean (Chinese) herbal medicine and

HUMAN acupuncture in several styles - body-AP, KHA, Oculo-AP,

Auriculo-AP, Scalp-AP, Tung-style-AP, etc.

 

I learned much from him and will post some of his eye-openers in the

next few days.

 

Christopher Vedeler L.Ac. wrote:

> I too have a great deal of respect for the MD's and the Chiropractors

> who actually delve deeply into Chinese medicine. They understand that

> this medicine can't possibly be grasped in 100 hours of training.

> Heck, I feel like I just barely started my education with 3000 hours!

> Christopher Vedeler L.Ac., C.Ht.

 

IVAS [intnl Vet Acup Soc http://www.ivas.org/course_info.cfm ] runs a

very good [intensive] BASIC course for vets. There are only 120-

teaching hours [spread over circa 4 X 5-day modules]. However, in

addition to the 120-hours of expert teaching, participants get very

detailed Course Notes that cover the main TCM Principles. They must

also study IVAS-recommended human textbooks and put in a LOT of

directed home-study.

 

To qualify for the IVAS Certificate, participants must sit a 3-4 hour

exam and answer 150 MCQs. The PASS mark is 90% and I know of

one candidate who scored 100%.

 

IMO, the IVAS Course is excellent. Any vet who holds a valid IVAS Cert

has earned his/her stripes! But they are only on the FIRST-STEP of a

lifelong study of TCM-acupuncture. IVAS also runs ADVANCED

acupuncture courses and courses in TCM Herbal Medicine. Its Annual

Congress usually is well attended and congress speakers come from all

over the world.

 

See a few abstracts from a recent Brazilian Veterinary Acupuncture

Congress at

http://users.med.auth.gr/~karanik/english/articles/brazvet.html

 

Heck, Christopher, although I have 32 years of study and practice of AP

in animals and humans under my belt, when I talk with practitioners like

Prof KIM, Are Thoresen, Emiel van den Bosch, Marvin Cain, etc., and

read the mails on this list (and on several other TCM Lists), I feel that I

have barely started my education!

 

I hope that the belief in reincarnation is correct, and that my soul in this

life will carry the experiences of past lives into the future. If that is true,

maybe I might be just about ready to progress to Junior Master Status in

my next reincarnation, or the one after that!

 

 

 

Best regards,

 

 

Tel: (H): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0)

 

 

 

 

Ireland.

Tel: (W): +353-(0) or (M): +353-(0)

 

 

 

" Man who says it can't be done should not interrupt man doing it " -

Chinese Proverb