Programme TCM
PHOTO: prof. Vladimir Nachatoy
Lecturers and topics :
Peter Deadman – Health preservation
– 3 hour lecture
Peter Deadman is the famous long time editor and publisher of The Journal of Chinese Medicine and co-author of A Manual of Acupuncture, a textbook of acupuncture points. He will be lecturing on health preservation – yangshengfa. He has been a practitioner and teacher of Chinese medicine for over 25 years. Before taking up Chinese medicine he co-founded Infinity Foods (now a national natural foods retailer and wholesaler), Infinity Foods bakery & The Brighton Natural Health Centre - a charity devoted to teaching methods of self health care. He is also a member of The Matzos, an upbeat klezmer-fusion dance band.
In his lecture he will be discussing not only diet, exercises, acupuncture points but also modern western medicines studies supporting health preservation.
Prof. V.G.Nachatoy, Russia – Treating cardiac problems in hypo and hyperthyroidism
- 3 hour lecture
Professor Vladimir Grigoryevich Nachatoy from Russia is a member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and professor at TUTCM ( Tianjin University of TCM). He regularly lectures in Petrograd, Moscow, Prague, Tianjin.
Although formerly a western trained physician he has also full chinese university education in TCM including research in chinese herbal treatment of hyperlipidemia and cardiovascular disease treatment in TCM.
Western students may not be familiar with him but Czech students love his sense of humour as well as his beautifull barytone voice not only in his lectures as he is also an incredible amateur opera singer.
Professor Li Jianzhong, China - Treatment of hypertension in Chinese Medicine
– 3 hour lecture
Professor Li is head of departement of acupuncture in Beijing Xuanwu hospital and is well known to French students of Chuzhen Institute since he has been lecturing there for almost 20 years . His interest in both historical and modern case histories makes his lectures all the more instructive and fascinating.
PHOTO: prof. Li Jianzhong, Vl. Ando
Susan L.Ondrášek L.Ac, USA Treatment of obesity in chinese medicine –
- 2 hour lecture
Susan L. Ondrášek has her own acupuncture practice in USA by the name Seven treasures of healing. She combines traditional finese medicine with the classical theory of five elements, esoteric acupuncture, zen shiatsu, tuina, reiki and strives to heal mind, body and soul. Phytotherapy and dietary recomendations are an integral part of her therapy.
Rani Ayal, Israel – Introduction and some insights into five element acupuncture
– 2 hour lecture and one day postcongress workshop
Rani Ayal has been practicing and teaching Chinese Medicine for over twenty years. Initially trained in Japan in Shiatsu and Meridian style Acupuncture, Rani returned to Israel to complete his studies in TCM acupuncture and herbal treatment. Rani then continued training in Classical Chinese Medicine- Five Elements and Stems and Branches, under Master Acupuncturist Joan Duveen. He will be giving a lecture on five elemants acupuncture and also a postcongress workshop on 29.Nov which will be a hands-on 5element constitution diagnosis for a very limited number of students.
Scott Tuvia – Abdominal acupuncture : how to balance fire and water and strengthen yuan qi
– 3 hour lecture, 2 hour workshop
Tuvia Scott has been practising and teaching Chinese medicine since 1994. He is currently the academic director of the TCM department at Campus Broshim, at Tel Aviv University in Israel and is formerly a member of the board of the Israeli Association of TCM. He is founder of the Israeli centre for abdominal acupuncture, which runs workshops on abdominal acupuncture in Israel and Europe.
In the past few years Tuvia has been involved in practical research into the effectiveness of abdominal acupuncture, along with studying aspects of the classics in support of his theory.
Hegyi Gabriella - Scalp acupuncture
– 2 hour lecture + 2 hour workshop
Professor Hegyi Gabriella is the most distinguished and highest ranking representative of Hungarian acupuncture. Her interest in chinese medicine dates from 1985 and she has worked with Japanese masters including her first 6 month stay in Japan in 1987 and on other ocasions. Her professional interests span a wide range of subjects including scalp acupuncture, chiropractice, oral acupuncture, Voll EAV, ryodoraku, massage, neuraltherapy, nutrition. She has many diplomas and professional qualifications including membership of the Hungarian Academy of Science. She has lectured in more than 20 countries worldwide and is the author of many articles as well as studies done on a professional scientific level.
Her awards include ICMART medical conference frist prizes, an award from Hungarian Association of natural therapists and honorary citizenship of Budapest. She holds several official positions including membership of the Budapest Health Comitee.
She will be lecturing on scalp acupuncture.
Koller Sonja - 5 element acupuncture of J.R.Worsley
– 2 hour workshop
A heilpraktiker practising in acupuncture in Hamburg Germany for more than 10 years Is offering a workshop for practitioners who want do widen their knowledge of the elements. And some practical exercises to experience the Elements with each other. There will also be an overview of the approach of diagnosing and treating in five element acupuncture.
Felicity Moir, Westminster university, Great Britain – Treatment of addiction to smoking in chinese medicine
- 3 hour lecture + workshop
Working as head of staff in Chinese medicine acupuncture departement of Westminster University her lemure will be concentrated on ear acupuncture and treating addictions to smoking.
Dhaenens Chris – Quality kontrol of herbal products, EU regulations –
- two one hour lectures
As a longtime practitioner and teacher of chinese medicine herbology he has a wealth of knowledge about both subjects that he will be lecturing on and is also personally involved in trying to remedy the current threats to practise of chinese phytotherapy in the EU
PHOTO. Bílek, Karlachová, Bendová
Jan Schroën (Kerkrade (The Netherlands) - Systems approach in understanding Chinese medicine
– 3 hour lecture+workshop
Jan Schroen has been working as an acupuncturist and Chinese herbalist in a general health clinic in Utrecht, The Netherlands for the last 20 years. Initially a student of biochemistry and acupuncture in the Netherlands, later he undertook several study trips to the People’s Republic of China.
In his lectures he will speak about his fascinating experiences of search for an interface between western and chinese medicine in order to document results of TCM by means of western medicine biochemistry in TCM patients. The ideas, research methods and results of the Sino-Dutch Research Centre of Preventive and Personalized Medicine in the Netherlands (a cooperation of the Dutch Royal Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Science, executed by TNO and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics) will be presented.
In the last 15 years he has been teaching and lecturing traditional Chinese medicine at several schools and symposia in Europe and the USA as well as involvement in the development of a TCM education program at European academic level.
He has also published several articles on complexity mathematics and traditional Chinese medicine. In his own words :
Chinese medicine is a phenomenological and systemic way of observing man. To understand this methodology it takes a new approach of research methods. Since our reductionistic western scientific paradigm conflicts with the describtive, phenomenological paradigm of Chinese medicine, it is hardly possible to come to an objective and complete picture of classic Chinese scientific philosophy. If we really want to explore and understand Chinese medicine we have to find tools and ways of thinking that are accepted by western science and are coherent to Chinese thinking. Nonlinear dynamics, complexity mathematics and theories about self-organizing systems are new developments in western science that could bridge the paradigm gap between east and west.
Eva Boháčková, PhDr, Czech Republic CZ - Addictions, obesity or why do we distrust our bodies
- 1hour lecture
This lady is a specialist on in depth psychology of borderline situations and she will be having a lecture on addictive aspects of eating and some other addictions.
She is a former teacher of psychology at Charles University Prague and has practiced grafology for more than 10 years. Her main themes will be western and eastern approach to the human body, food as a substitute to real life, diet as a life programe, jojo effects and the inner tyrant, the path from the labyrinth
Jiří Mařádek MD, CZ – Czech Republic – Hypermobility – a case of borders
Treatments of scars – differential diagnosis of qi or blood stagnation
– 1 hour lecture, 2hour workshop
Jiri Maradek is a long time lecturer of acupuncture and phytotherapy at the First school of Chinese Medicine in Prague. Being a rehabilitation specialist and also an amateur scenic dancer makes him all the more receptive towards the human body and all its ailments. Himself a dedicated qigong practitioner he uses all his senses in his work and especially in his lectures for students where he often uses drama to illustrate his words. He is kenely interested in the work of Rani Ayal.
Zuzana Vančuříková, MD, CZ + Šimonovský Karel Ing - Use of imunonutritional mushrooms in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases
– 3 hour workshop
Zuzana Vančuříková is a very easy going person despi te her name which is probably rather difficult to read correctly for foreigners. Formerly paediatrician she has kept her speciality alive even in chinese medicine practice and many children love her cheerfull voice and optimistic outlook as well as herbal medicine tablets and tolerate the few needles necessary in her treatments surprisingly well. She has taken a keen interest in imunonutritional mushrooms for children and adults alike and become an expert at it including all the research.
Ludmila Bendová, MD, CZ Cardiovascular signs on the tongue, blood stagnation evaluation (case histories documented with tongue diagnosis of their evolution)
– 1 hour workshop
As one of the foundators of SinoBiology Society in Prague Czech republic 20 years ago she was rather saddened by the increase in clinically depressive students after the introduction of lectures on individual herbs in our Czech school in 1998. Some students had the impression that the bulk of knowledge needed to memorize and digest all the important acupuncture points plus all the important herbs totally exceeded their memory capacity. Others complained of time spent without their family learning all these little chinese names.
She therefore devised some interesting games that can be played with children and people not familiar with chinese medicine but at the same time help students of chinese medicine learn well what they need to know for practice. The cards used in these games come very handy for people spending time travelling to and from work, school etc
She is also the owner of several hundred photographs of tongues of her patients in various stages of disease that she uses in her workshops on diagnosis. She will be concentrating especially on evaluation of stges of blood stagnation in cardiovascular patiens.
Libuše Jeřábková, MD , CZ Treatment of addictions with chinese medicine
– 1 hour workshop
Being a neurologist working in a beautifull mountainous region where one has to perform some work of general practitioner, internist and may be also other specialties Libuše Jeřábková is a very energetic and understanding practitioner of acupuncture studying chinese medicine for more than 6 years. In her current position as a neurologist - member of a psychiatric ward with patients suffering from drug addiction she is pioneering an entirely new approach to these topics in the Czech Republic.
Ondřej Toman, MD, CZ Treatment of serious migraines headaches with a combination of western and eastern medicine -
1 hour
An experienced neurologist with 20 years of clinical work and 10 years of using chinese medicine acupuncture he has devised ways to combine both treatments in very stubborn and longterm extreme case of migraine.