Qiological Podcast
Episodes
261 A Taste of Taiwanese Tea • Pia Giamassi
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Qiological is on vacation for the month of July, this discussion is one of a series of ‘summer re-runs’ of some of our favorite conversations from...
260 Living the Fertile Life • Njemile Carol Jones
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Qiological is on vacation for the month of July, this discussion is one of a series of ‘summer re-runs’ of some of our favorite conversations from...
259 The Difference Between Presence and Control • Stuart Kutchins
05 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Qiological is on vacation for the month of July, this discussion is one of a series of ‘summer re-runs’ of some of our favorite conversations from...
258 A Look at the Tiger Year from the Halfway Point • Gregory Done
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
One certainty in life is that it’s uncertain; we can’t accurately decipher how our stories unfold. But having an outline helps as we chart a cours...
257 Qi, Blood and Fluids • Jeffrey Dann & Mark Petruzzi
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ability to perceive with our hands, to assess the flow of life through the body, is a valued skill in East Asian medicine. It’s a fine and disce...
256 Bridging Worlds, Shamanism and Clinical Practice • Sean Fox
14 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our medicine is rooted in the understanding that mind, body, and spirit are integral parts of the whole – reflective of each other and inseparable i...
255 Puzzling Through the Heavenly Stems • Deborah Woolf
07 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Everyday we sit with people in our clinic and puzzle through the questions of “What is going on for them,” “Can I see clearly what they need,”...
254 What Acupuncturists Need to Know About Websites • Mike Kay
31 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ability to communicate is one of life's most valuable skills. It's at the core of our human experience, and it fuels the connections that add so m...
253 Addiction and Healing • Randal Lyons
24 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes our curious venture into solving our problems lures us to overstep the boundaries we did not realize were important. A need to control pain ...
252 Considering Acupuncture • Ann Cecil-Sterman
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As acupuncturists, we practice our medicine as both a science and an art. Science in the sense of organizing the learned or experiential structure of ...
251 Medicine, Ethics and Virtue • Sabine Wilms
10 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Like everything else, power is a two-sided coin. It can be coercive and oppressive, but it can also be empowering and nurturing. And according to anci...
250 Moxa to the Rescue, Researching Moxa in the Treatment of Long Covid • Merlin Young
03 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Moxa doesn't just stimulate Qi; it replenishes the vital life force. This Chinese medicine treatment brings nourishment in the form of pure yang that ...
249 Character, Nature and Fate- Navigating the Human Realm with Polestar Astrology • Gregory Done
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Where do we come from, where are we headed and what should we do in the interim? Is the blueprint of our life set in stone, or do we have the free wil...
248 Starting a Free Clinic • Bess Randles and Kyle Yoshioka
19 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The most powerful lessons come not from a school curriculum, but from life. Our world is full of both problems and opportunities. There is what we str...
247 Kath Berry Menopause, The Transformative Gateway of Connection
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Change is inevitable. Our lives are a series of transitions. Winter blooms into spring. Weekends slow down to Mondays. Puberty arrives and rearranges ...
246 Tools, Perception and Attention • Gary Klepper
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our tools don't just expand our faculties. They change what we can do by training our physical and cognitive senses. They temporarily become part of w...
245 Climate Change and Chinese Medicine • Nishanga Bliss
29 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Yin and Yang flow through every aspect of our lives. Understanding their ebb and flow gives us a glimpse into the nature of the universe, and our plac...
244 Gleaning the Spirit of Medicine • David Allen
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
According to the Chinese philosopher Confucius, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation,...
243 Engaging Vitality, The Practice of Attention, Sensing and Perception • Dan Bensky
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
When traveling do you turn on the GPS and follow the instructions, look at a map to orient yourself, or do you have a sense of the terrain and the cap...
242 Acupuncture as Revolution • Rachel Pagones & Beth Sommers
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The image of China’s Barefoot Doctors struck a resonant chord with those in the West who were looking for simple and effective means of helping peop...
241 What We Learn Along the Way • Jessica Baer
01 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Learning is continuous, not episodic. As the Chinese say, 活到老學到老, huo dao lao, xue dao lao, learn throughout your entire life. Resilience ...
240 Tools of the Trade • Mark Parzynski
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Using the right tool for the job" may come off as rather clichéd, but it's true nonetheless. Knowing our tools, and that includes our theory, method...
239 The Magic of a Small Successful Practice • Sydney Malawer
15 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Building a successful practice is rewarding, but it's rarely a smooth ride. It's a path that takes us beyond our healing work and into the depths of b...
238 Burnout, Breakthroughs, and Letting Be • Celia Hildebrand
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As practitioners, it’s easy to ignore or fail to take note of the red flags that imply we’re headed for burnout. Not until the billowing smoke of ...
237 Polestar Astrology • Anne Shelton Crute
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve long turned to the stars for guidance, from foretelling our destinies to celestial navigation. Chinese Polestar astrology was developed as a m...
236 Understanding Western Medicine Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine • Dr Wen Hua-Bing
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Curious to know about your experience in the ER at Dong Zhi Men, where you using Western or Eastern medicine there? Or some combination?Diabetes and H...
235 Reflections on Practice and Business • Cara Frank
18 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you're a young or seasoned practitioner, opening your own Chinese medicine practice is an exciting , daunting and worthwhile challenge. There'...
234 What It Means to Be a Chinese Medicine Doctor • Annie White
11 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Acupuncture is technique, a method, a way to send the body a message. But the message we send— that comes from the long tradition and practice of th...
233 Teaching, Learning and the Music of Medicine • Etienne Simard
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
“The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduc...
232 Transition and Value, Considerations in Buying and Selling a Practice • Jason Luban
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us typically devote our time, focus, and resources to building a successful Chinese Medicine practice. But how often do you take a step back t...
231 The Hospital Practice Handbook Project • Megan Kingsley Gale
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Western medicine and East Asian medicine have often been seen as two completely different ways of approaching health and well being. Can they be blend...
230 Dry Needling and How It Fits Into the Terrain of Chinese Medicine • Stephan Cina
11 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Steve has kept the pulse on dry needling and the impact to the acupuncture profession for over a decade. As a specialist in sports and orthopedic acup...
229 Saam Panel on Practice • Sharon Sherman, Jeri Steele & Charles Bishop
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Yin/Yang is a lovely idea. The counterbalance of opposites sounds so good on paper, but the expression of those heavenly ideas within the limitations...
228 Navigating Uncertainty • Taran Rosenthal
30 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How we know, and how we know we know. Our capacity to sit with our patients in that liminal space of not knowing. And the ability to navigate uncertai...
227 Repairing the World with Moxa • Hannah Swift
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
針灸 Needles and Moxa, it is right there in the Chinese characters that are translated as “acupuncture.” Moxa is as fundamental to our practices...
226 Connections and Principles of Japanese acupuncture, The Nan Jing, and the Saam Method • Thomas Sorensen
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Leaves on a plant curl and turn yellow when the soil is not right. The health of a cat is reflected in the texture of its fur and clearity in the eyes...
225 The Pernicious Influence of Depressive Heat • Rob Helmer
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The fundamentals root our practice. The basics that we learn in the beginning not only never go away, but deepen with experience. This is why regardle...
224 Integrating Sensing and Thinking Through the Lens of Japanese Acupuncture • Paul Movessian
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our job as clinicians is to help our patients. And to help them we must first understand them. Which is easier said than done, especially as we all ha...
223 Knowing Your Foundation and Leaning on Your Strengths • Mark Asquith
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re running a business, be it an acupuncture clinic, tech company, plumbing service or coaching practice there are core principles that can ...
222 To Be Like Water • Margot Rossi
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Heartbreak is unavoidable. It’s not a flaw in character or make up humans, it’s a feature. It’s what allows us to grow beyond the bounds and lim...
221 The Channel Project, Using Instagram to Teach and Market • Andrea Dewhurst
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Love it or hate it, social media has seeped its influence into many corners of our lives. Most people have at least one social media platform that act...
220 Nuts and Bolts of Building a Practice • Eric Grey
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Money is the lifeblood of every business; it’s the Qi. And an acupuncture practice can not ignore the basics of business. The main focus of a Chine...
219 Historical Context, Breaking Down Dogma, and Learning from Crisis Moments • Allen Tsuar
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are many schools of thought, methods both ancient and modern, practices based on lineage and those idiosyncratically synthetic. It is easy to th...
Uncertainty and Investing in Our Practice • William Green • Qi218
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to have beliefs about people we don’t know. Especially if they tick the boxes of our biases, prejudice, ignorance and the opinions of ou...
216 Perspectives From a Family Lineage • Dr Shou-Bin Yu & Anthony DiSalvo
07 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Traditions tell a story. They hold and transmit insights into cultural, religious, and sometimes medical practices. They can give us a glimpse in...
215 Inquisitiveness, Engagement and Vitality • Velia Wortman
31 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As practitioners of Chinese Medicine, it’s our responsibility to address all aspects of our patient’s experience: mind, body, and spirit. This dem...
214 Eastern and Western Philosophy and the Future of Chinese Medicine • Brenda Hood
24 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How we think influences what we do. The models and frameworks we use to understand not just our medicine, but the world itself, opens or limits ...
Encore Episode, Building a Business: On The Path • Marketing Mini Series 3
21 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Whitcomb, the guest of this conversation was on Qiological, at the beginning of 2018, she was just graduating from Chinese medicine school and ...
213 Boundaries, Filters, Language and Flow, The Terrain of Empathy • Diane Fabian Smith
17 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I’m reminded of the stillness of cats. How they can sit both still and yet completely and serenely attentive. So too with resonance, there is the y...
212 Pulse, Presence and Process- Navigating the Flow • Ross Rosen
10 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Pulse palpation…the telling touch in Chinese Medicine. It’s an integral aspect of East Asian that is simple in some ways, and deeply nuanced...
211 Chinese Medicine in South America • Rodrigo Aranda
03 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Life has a way of nudging us in different directions. Some find inspiration in life-changing events; others in the smallest of things. But whichever p...
210 Sitting in the Fire- Ethics, Presence & Connection • Seanna Sifflet
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How we are with ourselves affects how we are with patients. Our own difficulties in life can assist us in helping others, but it requires that we are ...
209 Autoimmune Disease Through the Lens of Chinese Medicine Physiology • Bryan McMahon
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about autoimmune illness from the Chinese medicine perspective is vastly different from how we think about in modern biomedicine terms. And t...
208 On Having a Successful, Resonate and Enjoyable Professional Life • Eric Grey
13 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Community is something we often talk about, and yet it is not easily defined. Our practices include not just us and our business, but the ecosys...
Developing Medicinal Intuition • Wendie Colter • Qi207
06 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We all know the feeling of having a hunch, of getting a glimpse, of having a kind of knowing that does not come from thinking or knowledge. There migh...
206 Bian Que- Myth, Magic and Method • Shelley Ochs
29 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Much of our medicine is shrouded in myth, and one of the obscure, but persistent figures is that of Bian Que, the bird-headed healer first associated ...
QAJ1.1 Purpose and Path • Sam MacLean
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
“What is my purpose? Why am I here?” These are questions that we all grapple with at one time or another in our personal and professional lives. B...
QAJ1.2 Clean Language and Embodied Presence • Margot Rossi and Nick Pole
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Language creates walls or openings. We can attempt to coax our patients into our view of the world, or softly and with respect enter into theirs. Ther...
QAJ1.3 Covid, Grief and Healing • Seanna Sifflet and Heidi Lovie
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grief and fear are a potent combination of influences, and when you add the pressure cooker effect of Covid-19 and all that entails it can be powerful...
QAJ1.4 Book Review- Finding Effective Acupuncture Points • Oran Kivity
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In Oran Kivity’s review of Finding Effective Acupuncture Points we not only get a taste for the character and content of the book. We are also treat...
QAJ1.5 Attending to the Three Treasures of Marketing • MB Huwe
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of the essential aspects of the human being, we think Jing, Qi and Shen. When you think about the health, wellbeing and flourishing of y...
QAJ1.6 Clinical Usage of Ben Tun Tang • Eran Even
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Shaoyang issues have a kind of cyclical nature. The problems come and go with a wobbly periodicity. Not unlike the wheel of a bicycle that is slightly...
QAJ1.7 Chinese Medicine Character App Review • Michael Max
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Knowing a little medical Chinese can be very helpful in learning and practicing the medicine. This review of the Chinese Medical Characters app w...
QAJ1.8 In Your Business • Stacey Whitcomb
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s easy to think of our practices as “acupuncture.” But the truth is our practices are first and foremost— a business. An infrastructure tha...
QAJ1.9 Practicalities of Practice • Jonathan Bluestein & Stephen Jackowicz
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Through the boundaries of time, language and culture East Asian medicine has found its way into the West. But there is a cultural component that we of...
204 Chinese Medicine Perspectives on Sleep • Damiana Corca
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Slipping into sleep. It’s the simplest thing to do. Or the most difficult. The quietude of sleep is a reflection of the activity in our lives. And i...
203 Getting Down to Business • Laura Christensen
08 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Do you know the costs that go into creating the opportunity for a patient to lay on your table? Do you know how much you're paying yourself? Have you ...
202 The Art of Negotiation— paradigm shift of interaction in the clinic • Margot Rossi & Nick Pole
01 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We often think of negotiation as a win/loss proposition that focuses around business deals, finances, large purchases and perhaps hostage situations. ...
201 fMRI- The Patient-Acupuncturist Relationship • Vitaly Napadow
25 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Any seasoned practitioner leans on the patient practitioner relationship. There is something in the interaction that cannot be separated from the resp...
200 Learning From Mentors • Denise Hung
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Learning medicine requires books, memorization , and knowledge. But knowledge without practice is useless. It is through the clinical encounter with ...
199 Mind, Matter, Medicine and Skeptical Inquiry • Ben Hawes
11 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our job in clinic is to help people both through knowing what treatment to provide and having the ability to discern how to help when the signs are no...
198 Reflections and Significance of Case Reports • Edward Chiu
04 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The ancient Chinese were not the only people to observe nature and develop medicine in the service of relieving suffering and promoting health. But th...
197 Divergent Perspectives on Conversing with the Channels • David Euler
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In nature we see that rivers have a flow and shape, but in times of flooding or if there are obstructions they will find other ways to move their wate...
196 Reflections on Yin • Brodie Welch
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Attending to yin in a world that preferences yang does not come easy, and perhaps only begins to catch our attention once we’ve reached the edge of ...
Encore Episode, The Herbal Methods of Dr Jiang Tong
15 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is a solo show where Michael shares the methods and formulas his teacher in Taiwan, Dr. Jiang Tong, used in the treatment respiratory illness.Her...
195 Hands on With Horses • Sam McLean
13 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There are yin and yang ways to be with a horse, or for that matter— with a person as well. That yin aspect might be yielding, but it’s far from we...
194 Restoration of the World • John Stan
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Our work as practitioners involves restoration. We know that neither we nor our patients are separate from the natural world. Our daily clinic might b...
193 Physiology, Congruence and Counterflow • Bryan McMahon
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a saying in Chinese, 以人為本, Understanding a person is basis of knowing how to treat them. Our work requires we both understand our med...
192 Having a Home Office • Ji Ling Lin
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What is the best business model and size of acupuncture practice? That depends on the practitioner, their values, goals and individual perspective. J...
Encore Episode, Mistakes and Discoveries- Group Discussion on Learning Saam Acupuncture
19 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mistakes and discoveries go hand in hand. And there is really no way to get it right in medicine without getting wrong on the way to getting right.Thi...
191 Fluid Physiology and Pathology • Steve Clavey
16 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We think of the meridians as being a connective network within the body. But it is the fluids that actually permeate all the organs and tissues, and i...
190 The Power and Practice of "No" • Elisa Yip
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
East Asian medicine practitioners want to be helpful. That is often a large part of what drew us to this work. Sometimes being helpful is not in what ...
189 Cultivating Confidence • Vanessa Menendez-Covelo
02 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Confidence at the beginning of any endeavor, especially at the beginning of a medical practice, a new business, or new career is not possible. You may...
188 Herbal Medicine for the Aftermath of Covid • Nigel Dawes
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There is a moment in between sensing and allowing what is felt to enter the world of cognition and concept. It’s a liminal space of being and feelin...
187 Money Archetype and Metaphor • Lacey Dupre
16 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
There isn’t anyone who doesn’t have an opinion about money. Regardless of what kind of economic system you have an ideological bent toward, one th...
186 Language, Presence and Practice • Randy Clere
09 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Zhuang Zi says, “Words exist because of meaning. Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten...
185 Reflections on the Dao: Practical Philosophy and the Art of Medicine • David Marks
02 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
I rather enjoy the idea of our medicine being a sort of applied philosophy, that there is a way of looking at the world that has such coherence and co...
184 Celestial Secrets of the Mythic Tang Ye Jing • Sabine Wilms
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Tang Ye Jing— where to start? Way back in the Shang Dynasty so the story goes. The Yang Ye Jing is a “lost” text on herbal medicine that has...
183 Nourishing Life • Peter Deadman
19 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
True entrepreneurs and visionaries don’t go into something for the money. They go into it because of purpose and passion. The business piece is in s...
182 Hands On with Microcurrent • Malvin Finkelstein
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Forty years is a long time to practice medicine and gives plenty of opportunity to follow your interests while helping patients. Our medicine includes...
181 Teaming Up on Cancer • Kym Garrett
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Working with the conventional medical system takes a lot more than simply letting doctors know your practice exists. Like any relationship it takes ti...
180 Reflections and Observations on 2020 • Michael Max
29 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are at the end of 2020, you'd think the alliterative rhyme of 2-0, 2-0 would imply a year of balance of and stability. It's been anything but,...
179 If you don’t run your business, your business will run you • Dave Kaster
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
生意 sheng yi, are the characters in Chinese that mean business. They literally mean, “create meaning.” And when you think about it, any success...
178 Questioning like a Detective • Jason Robertson
15 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Questions are a key aspect of helping us to understand how to help our patients. In school we learn the classic 10 questions. But asking useful questi...
Encore Episode • Nuts and Volts of Using Micro-current in an Acupuncture Practice • Charlie Braverman
10 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Microcurrent offers acupuncturists another way to help their patients.
177 A Student Marketing Project • Megan Bulloch
08 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The great thing about being a student is that you have permission to be curious. It’s your job to push the edges. To crank open your mind and leave ...
176 Learning by Heart • Barry Danielian
01 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Barry Danielian is one of the most in demand trumpeters and arrangers in NYC, having recorded on over 400 CD’s. Barry’s music is used throughout t...
175 Cycles of Transformation- Tang Ye Jing and Women's Health • Genevieve Le Goff
24 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Chinese medicine has a treasure house of methods and treatment for women’s health. From the work of Sun Si Miao to modern day practitioners women’...
174 What Acupuncturists Need to Know About CBD • Chloe Weber
17 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
CBD is a big deal these days. Is it really the panacea that is constantly being sold to us? How does this substance and cannabis in general fit in wit...
173 Soul Pilgrimage, Death, and Loss • Tamsin Grainger
10 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Our western world hides death. We are taught to avoid it. Avoid thinking about, do everything medically possible to prolong life, and focus on “more...