Zang Fu Tui Na 3: Advanced Techniques & Global Protocols (Zang Fu Tui Na: Regulating and Harmonizing the Internal Organs)

Zang Fu Tui Na 3: Advanced Techniques and Global Protocols builds on the two previous Zang Fu Tui Na books: Zang Fu Tui Na: Basic Principles and Core Techniques and Zang Fu Tui Na 2: Diagnosing & Treating the Organs.Chapter One of Zang Fu Tui Na 3 covers Zang Fu Ba Gua Tui Na, a method of treating the abdomen that is unique to traditional Chinese medicine. Ba Gua Tui Na focuses on working around the navel area to diagnose and treat disorders stemming from pathological temperature differentials that create internal “Winds.” In Chinese medicine, Wind is the both the hidden cause and byproduct of many diseases. Wind diseases are not easy to treat with herbal medicine and acupuncture, but they can be dispersed by working around the navel, in eight peri-umbilical treatment zones that connect to the Eight Trigrams of the Yi Jing and the theory of the Nine Palaces and Eight Winds.Chapters Two to Five present four global treatment protocols that take into account multiple organ interactions and their structural and energetic actions with respect to Chinese medicine. These four protocols address the most important interactions of the Zang Fu, and each can treat a wide variety of diseases and energetic and structural imbalances. Global Protocols can be used as a starting point for treatment when the patient’s presentation is complex and difficult to diagnose. The following four protocols were created to address the most common and seeming complex disharmonies that practitioners regularly encounter in clinical practice.Treating Fire Diseases: Balancing Imperial and Ministerial FireHarmonizing Earth: Balancing and Harmonizing DigestionBalancing Water & Fire: Connecting Kidneys and HeartTransformation of Qi & Jing: Regulating Lung-Kidney Qi DynamicZang Fu Tui Na 3: Advanced Techniques and Global Protocols also introduces the reader to the principles of global fascial unwinding (Chapter 6) and its connection to the internal organs through the fascial network. All of the techniques and methods in this book are taught in Zang Fu Tui Na classes and seminars. Zang Fu Tui Na 3 serves as a workbook for these courses.The addition of Zang Fu Ba Gua Tui Na and the Four Global Treatment protocols rounds out the Zang Fu Tui Na practitioner’s diagnostic and treatment skills, providing six levels of diagnosis and treatment that overlap, interweave and can be combined as needed according to the situation:Regulating & Harmonizing the San JiaoRegulating the Five ZangDiagnosing & Treating Individual OrgansBa Gua Abdominal Diagnosis & TreatmentGlobal Treatment ProtocolsGlobal Fascial UnwindingThis multi-layered structure allows the Zang Fu Tui Na practitioner to start almost anywhere as one level, or method, easily leads to another. Multiple layers of treatment and diagnosis also give the practitioner the flexibility to adapt to the needs of the moment, while keeping in mind long-range treatment goals. Read more