Course Title: Treatment of Stroke with Master Tung Acupuncture

Instructor: Ivan Zavala

Number of classes: 1 (3-4 hours)

Language: English

 

Presentation:

Cerebrovascular accident or stroke is a condition that Chinese medicine has focused on understanding for over 2000 years.

The suddenness of it, and the underlying pathomechanisms that precede such a life-changing medical event has garnered great medical discussion to illuminate this life-and-death situation.

Within the lineage of Tung acupuncture exist several strategies to treat stroke and its sequela, after all, Master Tung himself became renowned after his successful post-stroke treatment of Cambodian President, Lon Nol.

 

Instructor:

Ivan Zavala is the founder of Cloudgate Acupuncture and specializes in autoimmune disease and internal medicine. He was the Department Head of Foundational Theory and Advanced Diagnostics and professor at Chicago College of Oriental Medicine, where he developed and taught several foundational classes and advanced herbalism and acupuncture methodologies and diagnostics.

Ivan is also an international lecturer in Latin America and Europe, where he teaches Shang Han Za Bing Lun and Classical acupuncture.

As a practitioner and professor of Chinese medicine, his interests lie in treating severe and complex disease with direct insight and guidance from the Chinese medical classics. Over the years, he has answered thousands of clinical and medical literature questions of practitioners from around the world, becoming a specialist in illuminating the canonical corpus into practical application.

 

Program:

- Historical outline of stroke and the various pathomechanisms involved

- Pulse and tongue diagnosis in the differentiation of stroke and post-stroke sequelae

- Tung and Orthodox acupuncture treatment strategies and explanations of treatment methods

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​To understand this lecture, you must have basic knowledge of Master Tung Acupuncture.