Pregnancy: Energetic Outline according to Chinese Medicine
Exploring Conception, Embryology, Birth, and Postpartum Care from Chinese medical perspectives.
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This course paints an energetic outline of conception, embryology, birth and the immediate postpartum period. It presents the development of life as understood through familiar Chinese medical models, as well as those specific to Chinese Obstetrics, the medical specialty known as Chan Ke. It discusses the modalities of acupuncture, nutrition, and Chinese herbs to support mother and child and their emerging during these special months.
The class traces foundational models of fertility and treatments for idiopathic infertility including treatments to clear to the womb and invoke conception. It follows the three trimesters and ten months of pregnancy informed by Daoist and Confucian perspectives on embryology Chinese medical indicators of emerging pathology at key junctures are covered for both pregnancy and labor. Pulses and indications of the healthy development at each stage are covered. There are no protocols, but logic for why to use common acupuncture points, how to use less commonly utilized points and why to refrain from prohibited points.
The lecture offers a fresh approach to pregnancy treatments informed by Sinew, Luo, and Eight Extraordinary Channels. A practical selection of points used in Chinese midwifery to help create a safe and easy labor. The class rounds out with emergency and immediate considerations postpartum.
Your Instructor
Diane Gioioso is an acupuncturist, Chinese herbalist, and intuitive healer. She has a concentration on fertility, pregnancy and postpartum care in her clinic. Her work emphasizes healing as a developmental process. Diane enthusiastically teaches courses to the Chinese medical and birth communities around the country. She has been a student of Master Jeffery Yuen for two decades. She formerly served as Chinese herbal and doctoral faculty at Maryland University of Integrative Health. She is the founder of Nine Stars Botanicals, a company producing high quality Chinese herbal remedies.