Course Overview

This module is part of an advance series looking at chronic and complex conditions that western medicine finds difficult to treat. Participants are expected to have a high level of prior learning and clinical experience because this course dives deep into the most challenging conditions. Module 6 covers abdominal pain and colic and uses key diagnostic tools to differentiate the associated patterns for each. Participants will have video tutorials and training notes covering the main causes of colic and abdominal pain including attack of cold, blockage, shock and cranial compression, Qi obstruction and blood stasis (including appendicitis), Spleen Qi xu, retention of phlegm, lingering pathogenic factor and worms. Treatment protocols are provided for each condition.

Course Objectives

• To be able to differentiate between abdominal pain and colic based on the different signs and symptoms.
• Understand the aetiology and pathology of common abdominal pain and colic presentations.
• Know how to form an accurate diagnosis and treatment plan.
• Learn acupuncture protocols for the all conditions; attack of cold, blockage, shock and cranial compression, Qi obstruction and blood stasis (including appendicitis), Spleen Qi xu, retention of phlegm, lingering pathogenic factor and worms.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 30 minWelcome and course overview. How to differentiate between abdominal pain and colic key signs.

30 min - 1 hrsUnderlying causes of colic; attack of cold, blockage and shock. Treatment principles, key acupuncture points and dietary advice.

1 hrs - 1.5 hrsOther causes of abdominal pain Qi obstruction and blood stasis.How to treat Spleen Qi xu, retention of phlegm, LPF and worms.

1.5 hrs - 2 hrsAcupuncture points for all of the patterns of disharmonies.Advice for parents – food to eat foods to avoid, meal preparations.

2 hrs - 2.25 hrsSummary and close.

Course Overview

Vomiting is common in babies and children because their digestive system is weak and it only gradually strengthens with age. The normal function of the Stomach is to send food down to the Small Intestine but vomiting occurs when there is something that prevents this happening. There is usually a blockage of some kind - either a physical one, such as accumulated food, or a less substantial one such as accumulated heat. In this module Julian goes through the syndromes for vomiting, the etiology, the pathology, and the signs and symptoms. He then talks about the treatment and advice for parents. The second subject focuses on the treatment of acute cough, (cough with sudden onset). In conventional medicine this would correspond to viral or bacterial infection. The third subject is otitis media or chronic ear infection. Ear inflammations are part of childhood. For reasonably healthy children, the problem never gets beyond a mild earache, but it can be much worse than that, with either excruciating pain, or a burst eardrum, or one following the other. In this section Julian provides details on how to treat the symptoms of otitis media and how to prevent reoccurrence of the problem.

Course Objectives

• Have a greater understanding of children’s digestive systems and the role of the stomach and small intestine
• Learn about the differences between accumulation of food and accumulation of heat causing blockages.
• Learn how to effectively treat acute cough and eliminate pathogens.
• Understand how otitis media forms, how it can be treated and future inflammation of the ear canal prevented.

Course Outline

0 hrs - 15 minWelcome and course overview

15 min - 1 hrsVomiting: Underlying causes, Constitutional types, age, acute attack.

1 hrs - 1.75 hrsAcute cough: definition, age of onset, causes,diagnosis and prognosis.

1.75 hrs - 2.5 hrsAcute Otitis Media: Forming an assessment, treatment and prognosis

2.5 hrs - 3 hrsSummary and close