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PROGRAMME
Please reserve a place in the TCM Symposium to be held
at the University of Westminster on Sunday 1st
November 2009
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Registration
Syndrome Differentiation Section 1:
Dr Hui Jun Shen
Tea Break
Syndrome Differentiation Section 2:
Dr Hui Jun Shen
Questions & Answers
Lunch Break
Chinese Health Preservation Section 1:
Peter Deadman
Tea Break
Chinese Health Preservation Section 2:
Peter Deadman
Questions & Answers
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The Association of
Traditional Chinese
Medicine (UK)
英国中医药学会
TCM SYMPOSIUM
Chinese Health Preservation:
Teachings from the Tradition Compared to
Modern Lifestyle Research
By Peter Deadman
Syndrome Differentiation:
No More Confusions
By Hui Jun Shen
Cayley Lecture Theatre
University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road
London NW1 5LS
(Opposite to Madame Tussauds.
Nearest tube station: Baker Street)
Sunday 1st November 2009
9.40 am – 4.50 pm
Date:……………………………………………………
(Lunch is included in the fee.)
Rich information
Research findings
Own clinical experience
Outstanding teaching style
medicine and acupuncture.
Chinese Health Preservation:
Teachings from the Tradition Compared to
Modern Lifestyle Research
The longer we practise medicine, the more we realise that
there are no magic solutions and it is very hard to treat
major disease once it has arisen. With epidemics of
diabetes, obesity, cancer, heart disease etc. now prevalent,
the biggest single assistance medicine in its widest sense
can offer is how to look after the human body to minimise
the chances of developing serious disease. This is what is
meant in the Neijing (The Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic,
100BCE to 100 CE) when it says “The superior physician
helps before the disease has arisen”.
There is a great depth of knowledge contained in the
teachings of Chinese Health Preservation, indeed it is fair
to say that it is one of the major branches of Chinese
medicine alongside herbs, acupuncture, tuina etc.
Nowadays we are able to confirm the validity of these
teachings with the prolific evidence coming from lifestyle
research.
This half day seminar will cover some of the traditional
Chinese teachings on regulation of the mind and emotions,
diet, tea, alcohol, exercise, work and rest, sleep, sexual
activity and self-cultivation in old age, as well as the
findings of numerous research studies carried out in recent
decades.
Mr. Peter Deadman
Peter is a well known Chinese medicine practitioner,
acupuncturist, educationalist, writer, and activist. He has
lectured world-wide on Chinese medicine for thirty years.
He is the editor of The Journal of Chinese Medicine and
co-author of A Manual of Acupuncture, two of his great
contributions to Chinese medicine in the whole western
world.
He studied acupuncture at The International College of
Oriental Medicine in England in 1975-1978, graduated
with Bachelor of Acupuncture, and has practised in
Brighton for over 30 years. He had been to China several
times in 1980s for further training in Chinese herbal
He founded The Journal of Chinese Medicine in 1979 and
has been editing this remarkable journal ever since, which has
been one of the foremost international journals of Chinese
medicine in English speaking world. In 1998 he co-authored
and published the masterpiece acupuncture textbook A
Manual of Acupuncture.
Since 1979, Peter has been teaching Chinese medicine and
acupuncture in many institutions in the UK, Ireland,
Denmark, Israel, Norway, Germany, Australia, and USA.
Syndrome Differentiation:
No More Confusions
Syndrome differentiation (Bian Zheng Lun Zhi), or
sometimes translated as pattern diagnosis, is the core of
TCM practice. It bridges consultation and treatment, in
the way of gathering clinical information of the patient
by using four diagnostic techniques, then analysing the
clinical data in TCM contexts to establish diagnosis of
syndrome pattern(s). Based on the syndrome pattern
diagnosis, the practitioner will be able to determine
treatment principle(s) which guide the actual treatment –
acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine or a combination
of both.
Many of us, especially those new practitioners, would
agree that syndrome differentiation is the most difficult
and confusing part of TCM practice. With lack of
standardised criteria for diagnosing syndrome patterns, it
often relies on the clinical experience of the
practitioners.
In this seminar, Dr Shen, with his own practising and
teaching experience of many years, will explore the
confusing areas of syndrome differentiation, and try to
simplify the complicity and clarify any ambiguities.
The seminar will cover: how many deficiency
syndromes and how to differentiate them; how many
heat syndromes and how to differentiate them; how
many damp heat syndromes and how to differentiate
them? What is in common and different between kidney
Qi, kidney essence, kidney Yin and kidney Yang
deficiencies; what is different between liver yang rising
and liver fire; an easy way to understand six meridian
differentiation (Liu Jing Bian Zheng) and four stage
differentiation (Wei-Qi-Ying-Xue Bian Zheng), etc.
Hui Jun Shen, MB, MM (China), MATCM (UK)
A professor and consultant from China’s top university
hospital of TCM, Dr Shen is well qualified and highly
experienced in both conventional western and traditional
Chinese medicine. He possesses 2 medical degrees from
Beijing and Shanghai Universities of TCM, with over 25
years of clinical experience in both China and the UK.
Being the president of the Association of Traditional
Chinese Medicine (UK), he is among the most highly
qualified Chinese medicine doctors in the UK, who had
the honour to be invited to St James Palace to meet His
Royal Highness Prince Charles in May 2003.
Since 2005, Dr Shen has been teaching acupuncture and
TCM as a senior lecturer and clinic director of
acupuncture programme at the University of Lincoln.
He also teaches TCM in other European countries such
as the Netherlands, Ireland and Portugal.
About ATCM
The Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine (UK)
is a professional organisation founded in 1994 by the
TCM practitioners in the UK. Dedicated to excellence
in the practice of TCM, it promotes proper professional
qualifications and the highest standards in the
profession. With currently over 700 members, ATCM is
the largest TCM professional organisation in the UK
with wide representation while still maintaining the
same high standards.
All full members of ATCM hold a university, college or
other recognised professional qualification at or above
BSc level. They are bound by the Association’s Code of
Practice and Code of Professional Conduct at all times.
More detailed information can be obtained from
ATCM’s website: www.atcm.co.uk