Advanced Training: Sequence 3

After successful completion of the DCCM^® training, Diplomates can choose to pursue advanced studies to further and deepen their knowledge of canonical Chinese medicine in general and the Tian-lineage^® medicine in particular.

The Advanced Sequence of seminars is the third and final step in the development of a student’s theoretical and academic understanding of Canonical Chinese Medicine. The senior-most instructor of ICEAM^®, on an annual basis, will offer one Advanced Seminar on cutting-edge research performed by him personally, or lecture on subject matter previously unavailable in the West. Advanced Seminars may also feature guest speakers, such as, for example, other Tian lineage holders.Only fully graduated Diplomates are allowed to attend annual Advanced Seminars, and/or sign up to watch the videos of Advanced Seminars of previous years online. Advanced Training Sequence seminars are hosted in cities worldwide on a rotating basis.

Advanced Courses

Shanghan Lun Lines Transmission, Taiyang Chapter (Lines 1-178)

After successful completion of the basic Canonical Chinese Medicine training, and certification as a Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine, one becomes eligible to start to study the actual clauses of the Han dynasty Treatise on Cold Damage, or Shanghan Lun. The more than eighteen century old Shanghan Lun is some of the hardest subject matter one can attempt to research in the whole of Chinese medicine. This can only be commenced after a thorough grasp of the basic concepts of the training. As such, this seminar is only available to Diplomates. During this seminar, Dr. Arnaud Versluys will read the whole Shanghan Lun line by line, and share commentary and annotation by transmitting the knowledge and understanding of the Tian lineage seniors. ICEAM has also been fortunate to receive the late Dr. Zheng Guanglu’s Shanghan Lun study notes, which are now integrated into the course as commentary on the lines. This seminar is the integral video recording of the Shanghan Lun Lines Retreat offered in Piestany, Slovakia in June 2017. This seminar comprises of all the lines of the Taiyang chapter from line 1 to line 178. 27 CREDITS (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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Shanghan Lun Lines Transmission, Yangming Chapter (Lines 179-262)

After successful completion of the basic Canonical Chinese Medicine training, and certification as a Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine, one becomes eligible to start to study the actual clauses of the Han dynasty Treatise on Cold Damage, or Shanghan Lun. The more than eighteen century old Shanghan Lun is some of the hardest subject matter one can attempt to research in the whole of Chinese medicine. This can only be commenced after a thorough grasp of the basic concepts of the training. As such, this seminar is only available to Diplomates. During this seminar, Dr. Arnaud Versluys will read the whole Shanghan Lun line by line, and share commentary and annotation by transmitting the knowledge and understanding of the Tian lineage seniors. ICEAM has also been fortunate to receive the late Dr. Zheng Guanglu’s Shanghan Lun study notes, which are now integrated into the course as commentary on the lines. This seminar is the integral video recording of the Shanghan Lun Lines Retreat offered in Piestany, Slovakia in June 2017. This seminar comprises of all the lines of the Yangming chapter from line 179 to line 262. 12 CREDITS (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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Shanghan Lun Lines Transmission, Shaoyang, Taiyin and Shaoyin Chapters (Lines 263-325)

After successful completion of the basic Canonical Chinese Medicine training, and certification as a Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine, one becomes eligible to start to study the actual clauses of the Han dynasty Treatise on Cold Damage, or Shanghan Lun. The more than eighteen century old Shanghan Lun is some of the hardest subject matter one can attempt to research in the whole of Chinese medicine. This can only be commenced after a thorough grasp of the basic concepts of the training. As such, this seminar is only available to Diplomates. During this seminar, Dr. Arnaud Versluys will read the whole Shanghan Lun line by line, and share commentary and annotation by transmitting the knowledge and understanding of the Tian lineage seniors. ICEAM has also been fortunate to receive the late Dr. Zheng Guanglu’s Shanghan Lun study notes, which are now integrated into the course as commentary on the lines. This seminar is the integral video recording of the Shanghan Lun Lines Retreat offered in Piestany, Slovakia in June 2017. This seminar comprises of all the lines of the Shaoyang, Taiyin and Shaoyin chapter from line 263 to line 325. 11 CREDITS (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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Shanghan Lun Lines Transmission, Jueyin Chapter (Lines 326-398)

After successful completion of the basic Canonical Chinese Medicine training, and certification as a Diplomate in Canonical Chinese Medicine, one becomes eligible to start to study the actual clauses of the Han dynasty Treatise on Cold Damage, or Shanghan Lun. The more than eighteen century old Shanghan Lun is some of the hardest subject matter one can attempt to research in the whole of Chinese medicine. This can only be commenced after a thorough grasp of the basic concepts of the training. As such, this seminar is only available to Diplomates. During this seminar, Dr. Arnaud Versluys will read the whole Shanghan Lun line by line, and share commentary and annotation by transmitting the knowledge and understanding of the Tian lineage seniors. ICEAM has also been fortunate to receive the late Dr. Zheng Guanglu’s Shanghan Lun study notes, which are now integrated into the course as commentary on the lines. This seminar is the integral video recording of the Shanghan Lun Lines Retreat offered in Piestany, Slovakia in June 2017. This seminar comprises of all the lines of the Jueyin chapter, Sudden Turmoil, Yin Yang Exchange, and Recovery, from line 326 to line 398. 13 CREDITS (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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Dr. Tian Heming Case Studies

The course is devoted to presentation and commentary on case studies by Dr. Tian Heming. Known by everybody in our Lineage, Dr. Tian, aka Tian Bawei, the patriarch of our movement, was a prolific clinician often seeing upwards of 300 patients per day. Not many records of these case studies have been preserved to this day except for the handwritten records the Zeng family took while studying with Dr. Tian. The case studies presented hail from the handwritten records, translated by Dr. Versluys. This was the first time ever that original Dr. Tian case studies were presented in seminar form. Presenter: Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), Lac 14 CREDITS (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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The Can and Cannot Lines of the Jingui Yuhan Jing

Dr. Versluys presents on a selection of chapters from the Jade Envelope in the Golden Cabinet or Jingui Yuhan Jing. This is a classic that displays content from both the Song dynasty Shanghan Lun as well as the Jingui Yaolue, and is compiled by Wang Shuhe in the Jin dynasty, based on the scrolls he retrieved. Scrolls five and six include important chapters on treatment indication and contra-indication not included in the standard Shanghan Lun and Jingui Yaolue. These chapters will elucidate guidelines on when the treatment methods of sweating, purging, emitting, warming, fire treatment, moxa, needling, and water treatment, are indicated or contra-indicated. And while in the regular Shanghan Lun, some clauses indeed address the same subject matter; the scope and structure of these important chapters exceed anything seen elsewhere. Presenter: Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), Lac NCCAOM 14 credits (AOM 12+ Safety 2) (NCCAOM, CALIFORNIA)

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Dr. Zeng Rongxiu Case Studies: Part Two

This one-day course is the companion-seminar to the original Zeng case study course presented in 2014. In this course, Dr. Versluys presents some of Dr. Zeng Rongxiu’s early case studies from the 1970’s. Most of the Dr. Zeng case studies that we know today are produced during his later years of clinical practice, most notably the late 1990’s to early 2000’s. But the early case studies of the 1970’s are all records of Dr. Zeng’s clinical practice during the time when he was still actively studying with Dr. Tian. As such, these case studies are sometimes indistinguishable from Tian cases, and exude a rare freshness less obvious in Dr. Zeng’s later cases. From studying these cases, we can see not just Dr. Zeng’s style, but also clearly see Dr. Tian’s undeniable style of clinical practice. Dr. Zeng’s book of case studies published in China mostly documents case studies from his later years and does not carry many of the 1970’s case studies. This makes this seminar offering extra unique! Presenter: Arnaud Versluys, PhD, MD (China), Lac NCCAOM 7 credits (CH)

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Application of Shanghan Lun Formulas Along the Five Movements and Six Qi of the Neijing

‘Five Movements and Six Qi’ wuyun liuqi 五運六氣is the common name of a theoretical system that documents patterns in meteorological changes observed during the sixty year Chinese calendar, and how these changes affect human beings subject to these influences. The system also describes basic guidelines for the herbal medicine treatment of the conditions caused by these six influences. The theory was documented in chapters 66-71 and 74 of the Suwen. These seven chapters, which make up approximately one third of the entire text, originally existed as a separate work titled the Yinyang Dalun 陰陽大論 or Great Treatise on Yin and Yang which was referenced in Zhang Zhongjing’s preface to the Shanghan Lun. The chapters were rediscovered after being lost between Han and Tang dynasties and added back into the corpus of the Neijing by Wang Bing in his 762 CE edition. The Shanghan Lun is the first clinical handbook explaining the treatment of this kind of disorders caused by external invasion. The disease manifestations, as well as their transmutation and progression with time, are described in great detail in the Shanghan Lun, as is their treatment with the canonical herbal formulas. The Yun Qi system is unique as the grandfather […]

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Canonical Formula Equivalencies and Dr. Tian Heming’s Practice of the Perfect Conclusion

The concept of Formula Equivalency means that two formulas can treat the same clinical presentation but with different ingredients and through a different angle of approach. For this seminar, Dr. Versluys has organized all the equivalent formulas of Zhang Zhongjing along the classifications of Interior-Exterior, Hot-Cold, Excess-Deficient, Functional-Material, and Qi-Water-Blood. The study of such organization will shed new light on previously known formulas and solve clinical problems when a certain formula is not producing the expected results in clinic.

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The Pathophysiology of the Small Intestine

Both in Western physiology as well as in Chinese medicine, the small intestine is a very important organ fulfilling indispensable physiological functions. As such it becomes undeniably pressing to revisit said organ to discover more about its significance as a member of the court of twelve organ officials of classical times. Actually, the small intestine is the most important organ in the body, second to the Heart. Both organs belong to the Imperial Fire of the South, but the Heart is considered inaccessible and off-limits to direct treatment. As such, the Small Intestine becomes the most important organ to treatment in pathologies pertaining to the governance of blood and the supply of fire in the body.

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Dr. Zeng Rongxiu Case Studies: Part One

The late Dr. Zeng Rongxiu was one of the great Shanghan Lun masters of the Sichuan region in China. He was the last surviving disciple of grandmaster Tian Heming who was clinically active in West Chengdu for 70+ years. This seminar will present a handpicked selection of successful case studies from Dr. Zeng’s 40+ years in clinical practice. The cases selected are NOT standard formula applications and represent Dr. Zeng’s uncanny ability to think outside the box and apply a high level of clinical creativity.

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The Pathologies and Formulas of the Decoction Classic Tangye Jing

The Decoction Classic or Tangye Jing is the ancestral book upon which the formulas used in Zhang Zhongjing’s Shanghan Zabing Lun were based. Though a lost work, the early 20th century retrieval of a work by Tao Hongjing, titled Secret Key to the Essential Methods for the Application of Herbs for Viscera and Bowels, has allowed us to again study the most important Tangye Jing formulas and directly observe their connection with the Shanghan system. The seminar will give a detailed overview of the historical situation and importance of the Tangye Jing as well as instruct in the pathologies indicated for the use of the formulas recorded. The seminar will elucidate the architecture of the Tangye Jing formulas, and their relationship with Zhang Zhongjing’s formulas and elaborate on the modification system presented in the Tangye Jing as a guide for advanced modifications of Zhang Zhongjing’s formulas.

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Dr. Tian Heming Modification System

This seminar presents a biographical introduction to Dr. Tian and the structure of the lineage from the perspective of each lineage holder. And the bulk of the seminar will then be spent on the instruction of Dr. Tian’s modification system for Zhang Zhongjing formulas, as well as his use of a select group of non-Zhang Zhongjing formulas. The Tian modification system is Dr. Tian’s own clinical experience developed over the decades upon decades in practice. This is a purely clinical modification system as per the hierarchy of clinical modification of canonical formulas. As such, this seminar should only be taken after completion and mastery of the basic Canonical Formula Modification seminar.

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ICEAM Programs

ICEAM programs were developed to provide clinicians with the rare opportunity to access the classics, or canons, that form the foundation of East Asian medicine.

Accreditations

Upon successful completion of a seminar, students receive a certificate of continuing education or professional development credits.