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Ross Rosen Lecture (Aug. 17th)
Please join the Union County Chapter of the Holistic Moms Network for a special presentation by Ross Rosen. Ross will set the stage for a new paradigm in medicine where we will finally learn why people actually get sick; how our lifestyles contribute to our illnesses (both mentally and physically); how to understand the inner workings of our bodies from a holistic perspective; how to sift through all the conflicting data on nutrition and choose foods that are healthy and nourishing for our bodies and minds, and so much more.
In this informative presentation, Ross Rosen will debunk many of the most common western medical mythunderstandings and mythperceptions about our health while presenting the foundations of the Chinese medical paradigm.
Details here.
Ross Rosen, JD, MSTOM, LAc, Dipl OM (NCCAOM) is the President, owner, founder and clinic director of the Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, one of the largest and most respected alternative medicine clinics on the east coast. He is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and herbalist and is one of a handful of people world-wide to master the intricate art and science of Chinese pulse diagnosis, Contemporary Oriental Medicine® and Chinese medical psychology and be certified to teach it. For more information on Ross Rosen, please visit his website at http://www.acupunctureandherbalmedicine.com/ or call 908-654-4333
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Friday 16th of July 2010 09:30:34 AM | Comments
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Shen-Hammer Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis Seminar
Please join us for a weekend seminar on the Shen-Hammer Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis (CCPD) pulse diagnostic system. The class will be held Sat-Sun January 9-10, 2010. As always, these classes are limited in size to ensure significant one-on-one attention and instruction.
The class details:
Dates: January 9-10
Times: 9am - 5pm
Location: Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine, 166 Mountain Ave, Westfield, NJ 07090
Cost: $300
CEUs/PDAs: 16
Registration: email centerforacupuncture@gmail.com and/or call (908) 654-4333 and send check made payable to 'Ross Rosen' to the above address.
Instructor: Ross Rosen, JD, MSOTM, LAc, CA, Dipl OM (NCCAOM)
Ross Rosen is one of a small group of close students of Dr. Leon Hammer and a certified teacher in Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis. He works closely with Dr. Hammer on a regular ongoing basis.
Ross Rosen...is a valued instructor of and a direct inheritor of my work and teaching. He is extremely observant and creative in his work, adding to our accumulated knowledge more than any other associate. Of great value is his ability to formulate the essence of Chinese medicine in simple terms accessible to the average person. Chinese medicine at its best, as practiced by Ross Rosen, is capable of discerning the disease process at a very early stage before it manifests an illness, therefore preventing disease, and above all capable of delineating and treating the individual who has the disease.--Dr. Leon Hammer
Ross has published numerous articles on CCPD, which can be accessed at: http://chinesepulsediagnosis.
The class will introduce the major concepts of CCPD, the Principle and 22 Complementary pulse positions and the most commonly encountered pulse qualities, clinical significance and some interpretation and much more. 70% of class will be dedicated to hands-on pulse instruction and training. Those attending will leave the weekend with a body of knowledge and skills readily and immediately transferable into one's clinical practice.
Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis™ (hereinafter "CCPD") is a sophisticated system of diagnostics which relies on the subtleties of the sensations, qualities and structure of the radial artery at both wrists. Heavily steeped in ancient wisdom and classical pulse diagnosis dating back thousands of years, CCPD breaks out of the dogma of pulse systems that in many respects are not relevant to the present day and age. CCPD provides insight into the modern diseases and constitutional imbalances that affect modern man in an industrial world.
CCPD, while having its roots in classical pulse systems, was significantly adapted by Dr. John H.F. Shen over the course of his long and well renowned career having seen hundreds of thousands of patients. After an intensive apprenticeship with Dr. Shen over a period of 28 years, Dr. Leon Hammer took on the arduous task of codifying and continuing the evolution of this pulse system.
The intricacies of CCPD are complex and require significant amounts of hands on training with a certified teacher to fully learn. Essentially, however, information is synthesized from the combinations of various qualities felt at the six principle pulse positions and the twenty two complementary positions, as well as the qualities perceived uniformly over the entire pulse and at each of the requisite depths. Integrating the information from these seemingly disparate parts, one is able to arrive at a complex diagnosis which prioritizes levels of imbalances of not just the symptomatic representations, but more importantly the root causes of disease.
Incorporating concepts and clinical realities that have not been diagnosed by any diagnostic methods in Chinese medicine, CCPD is truly a treasure which can change the lives of patients. By incorporating a precise measure of a healthy balanced pulse, even the subtlest deviations from this norm can be detected, thus establishing its importance not only in treating disease, but also as a preventative medicine.
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Wednesday 16th of December 2009 02:43:02 PM | Comments
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Yang, where does it come from?
The idea of ming men life gate fire is not found in the early classics. What many attribute to Kidney yang as being the source of all yang, some argue is really the Heart fire, Imperial fire. Both, of course, are shaoyin, but Heart is fire and Kidney is water. An interesting correlation to this is that the Heart acts through its proxy, the Small Intestine, which can be seen to be the outer manifestation of that fire as it guards the surface, ie wei qi and its tai yang association. The source of all yang comes from the Du mai (Governor vessel), which many attribute to the Kidneys, but in actuality has the opening point of Small Intestine 3 (also the wood point and can be seen as the acupuncture analogue to guizhi cinnamon twig -- see post below). Similarly, the lower dantian/cinnabar field is thought to be the root of yang and deriving from the Kidneys, but the main source of the lower dantian, Ren 4 (Conception vessel) is the front mu point of the Small Intestine.
So, today when a patient came in with significant yang deficiency of the Heart, needling Small Intestine 3 brought about a major change in her pulse.
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Wednesday 30th of September 2009 06:53:04 AM | Comments
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Ross Rosen Lecture
The lecture I did last week on Chinese medicine, and in particular, on my upcoming book is now available at the following link.
Please let me know your thoughts.
Best of health,
Ross
Saturday 17th of January 2009 10:00:40 AM | Comments
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February in the Year of Sagely Living
As February is the month of business, it would at first glance seem that I have an easy month, as much of my days are spent running a busy practice. However, I take this month as a challenge to redefine my goals of what exactly I want this practice to be; how I want it to run; the kinds of treatments I want to do; the kinds of connections with patients that I want to foster; the community that I want to build.
It is also very fitting that at the end of the month I go on vacation, back to a place that my family loves: Costa Rica. For us, there is no better place to get in touch with our essence; to truly be inspired. I will use this trip to help me solidify my truest goals for what I want in my life.
In addition, in the spirit of business, I have spent the last couple months updating/modernizing and augmenting my website for the sake of attracting more individuals to the benefits of acupuncture, herbal medicine, Contemporary Oriental Medicine, Contemporary Chinese Pulse Diagnosis and alternative medicine in general. Please take a look and browse the new site at your convenience: Center for Acupuncture and Herbal Medicine website.
Saturday 16th of February 2008 10:01:37 AM | Comments
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