acupuncture

ACUPUNCTURE COURSE CORE CURRICULUM

Length
1590 hours, Theory & Practical
Examination Required
720 hours, 6 month residency program (required)

A genuine desire to help others and to gain the
skills required to do so.
The aim of this course is not fail anyone
Every effort will be made to help each individual
student, regardless of any problems they may have.

Philosophical Concepts: 42 HOURS

1. Tao
2. Vital Energy
3. Purpose of Acupuncture
4. Nature
5. Circulation of Vital Energy
6. Types of Qi
7. Levels of Qi
8. Siequl
9. Pathogenic Factors

Definitions: 14 HOURS

Organ & Body Cavities: 14 HOURS

Anatomical Considerations: 21 HOURS

Jing-Luo (general overview) 14 HOURS

1. 12 Channels
2. 8 extra channels
3. 12 lua connecting
4. 15 luo
5. 12 divergent
6. 12 muscle

Indication for Acupuncture Therapy 7 hours

2.

Contraindications for Acupuncture Therapy: 7 HOURS

1. Cancer and malignant diseases
2. Pregnancy
3. Hemorrhagic
4. Obvious indications for other types of medical aid
eg. Fx
5. Overlap with certain medications

Prohibited Points:

1. Fontanelles of infants
2. nipples and external gentalia
3. umbilicus

Dangerous Points:

1. Points around the orbit of the eye
2. Points around the neck
3. Points over the chest, not covered by bone and
cartilage
4. Points over great vessels or vital organs
5. Very strong and powerful points

Complications of Acupuncture: 7 HOURS

1. Bleeding
2. Fainting
3. Pain of needle insertion
4. Broken needle
5. Damage to internal organs
6. Forgotten needle
7. Disabled needle
8. infection
9. Overcorrection of Para physiological factors
10. Absorption of premature delivery
11. Post needling pain
12. Post needling syndrome
13. Death

3.

Twelve Channels: 70 HOURS

1. Lung/Large intestine
2. Stomach/Spleen
3. Heart/Small intestine
4. Urinary bladder/Kidney
5. Pericardium/Sanjiao
6. Gall bladder/Liver

Principles of Point Selection: 21 HOURS

1. Ah-Shi points
2. Local points
3. Distal Points
4. Points along channels treat:
a.)Diseases along the channel
b.)Diseases of the corresponding internal organ
c.)Diseases of the related sense organ

5. Needling has specific physiological effects:
a.)Analgesia
b.) Sedation
c.) Homeostasis
d.) Immune enhancement
e.) Motor recovery

6. Alarm points
7. Influential points
8. Xi-cleft points
9. Yuan Source points
10. Luo-connection
11. Specific points
12. Confluent points
13. Five shu points (command points)
14. Horary points
15. Mother and son points for sedating and reinforcing

Law of Zang-fu
Mother Son Law
Husband Wife Law
Five Element Law
Great Law of Bu-Xie

4.

Recognition of energy imbalances: 7 HOURS

1. History
2. symptoms
3. Alarm Points
4. Pulses
5. Ear
6. Tongue
Principles of Energy Transfer: 7 HOURS

Five elements Law-Practical: 14 HOURS
Laser Therapy: 7 HOURS
1. Introduction
2. Kind of wave forms
3. Therapeutics

Auricular Therapy: 14 HOURS
1. Anatomy
2. Location of spinal column
3. Location of peripheral limbs
4. Location of Autonomic nervous system and internal
organs

Tongue Diagnosis: 7 HOURS
1. Anatomy
2. Location of channel

Pulse Diagnosis: 14 HOURS
1. Anatomy
2. Location of pulses
3. Types of pulses
4. Parameters of taking pulses

Acupuncture treatment: 149 HOURS
1. General principles of treatment
2. Therapeutic method
3. Prescription and selection of points
4. Acupuncture Analgesia
5. Systematic Therapy

Acupuncture and Law: 7 HOURS
1. Medical and ethical aspects Existing in Ontario

Home Studies: 240 HOURS
Supervised Acupuncture Practice: 900 HOURS