Classes & Workshops

Master Tung's acupuncture is often taught as a collection of point locations and recipes. This certification teaches it as a complete medical system with its own theory, its own logic of point nature, and its own clinical strategy. The course is built entirely on primary sources and lineage transmission — Master Tung's original indications, the annotations of his disciples, the interpretive work of Wang Chuan-Min (王全民), and the clinical experience of Lai Jin Xiong. Students finish able to construct treatments from first principles rather than looking up a formula.

The certification runs in three modules that build in sequence.

Most acupuncture education begins with a point chart. This program begins earlier than that, with the questions the Neijing itself was answering: what is a point? What is a channel? What was actually being described?

Delivered in three parts, the program works through the anatomical and theoretical foundations of classical acupuncture and holds them against what is now known about the structures involved. The curriculum draws on the textual and historical research of acupuncture scholar Huang Long Xiang.

This is the source code of classical acupuncture, and the foundation the rest of the catalog stands on.

If the Neijing program is the theory, this series is the practice. It follows the clinical work of pulse specialist Chen Xiao Hui, systematically analyzing how Neijing logic is applied at the table — through pulse, through needling method, and through treatment strategy.

The series teaches advanced needling skill and pushes at the boundary of what acupuncture can be asked to treat. Running underneath the technical material is the cultivation side of the work: refining the spirit toward oneness with the Dao of needling. This is the inner method, and it is taught as inseparable from the outer one.

Li Ke built his reputation on the cases other physicians had given up on. This course teaches his clinical thinking as a method rather than as a set of famous formulas — how he read severe disease, and how he handled yang when there was very little of it left.

The distinction the course keeps returning to is the difference between warming yang superficially and actually understanding how Li Ke harnessed yang dynamics in a collapsing patient.

A neuropsychiatric course rooted in Sun Simiao's work. It takes the thirteen ghost points (十三鬼穴) seriously as a clinical system for spirit disorders, and takes equally seriously the questions that come with them — what the possession language of the classics is describing, and what the practitioner's obligations are when treating someone in that state.

Wen bing is taught nearly everywhere as herbal medicine. Very few teach it as acupuncture strategy — despite the Lingshu devoting dedicated chapters to epidemic toxins. This course fills that gap, working through the warm disease framework as a guide to needling and bloodletting: how to read the level a pathogen has reached, and what to do about it with points.