Course Overview

Intrinsic (non-allergy) asthma is well-treated using Chinese Medicine. By holding your hand over the channels and sensing the channel aberrations in the Bladder and/or Kidney channels, you can know the location of the crucial blockage(s).

This course explains the underlying cause and the treatment of intrinsic asthma, aka exercise-induced asthma. In all cases seen thus far in our asthma research projects, the asthma was caused by the failure of channel Qi to reach the adrenal glands via the Kidney channel. The most common source of this failure occurs along the Urinary Bladder channel.

You do not need to take the introductory class, as this class includes a complete review of the material in the introductory class, and much more. This in-depth talk will cover the changes in channel qi flow that should occur in the Bladder and Kidney channels in response to an increased need for oxygen, how the body’s failure to make these changes leads to intrinsic asthma, and powerful case studies, including one presented by a guest-speaker acupuncturist whose son's life was on the line.

When sympathetic mode's adreanline increase is not able to occur, due to channel blockages in either the Bladder or Kidney channel, the body uses a secondary Emergency Mode system: the mammalian dive reflex. The physiology of the mammalian dive reflex, in which the throat is closed off and mucus lines the airways, is identical to the physiology and symptoms of intrinsic asthma.

Course Objectives

• Learn what causes intrinsic (exercise-induced) asthma.
• Learn how to locate the Bladder and/or Kidney channel blockages causes prevention of healthy UB divergence.
• Learn how to make treatment plans based on case studies.
• Examine a case study of life-threatening asthma since infancy

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minDiscussion of the role of the Urinary Bladder channel's divergence in activating or increasing sympathetic mode physiology. When this physiology is not working, the body must use the other emergency response, causing asthma.

30 min - 1 hrsAn introduction to feeling, by hand, the flow of channel qi. Detection of blockages in the Urinary Bladder and Kidney channels is necessary to eradicate the blockages. General needling of the channels is not enough.

1 hrs - 2.5 hrsCase study discussions of removing the channel blockage and patient results.

2.5 hrs - 4 hrsCase study of life-threatening asthma since infancy