Japanese acupuncture referral list (long)

[Guest guest]

Dear colleagues,

 

I have a website at http://jabinet.net which is dedicated to traditional

Japanese medicine,

primarily classical acumoxa and Kampo. The website generates a fair number of

inquiries

for referrals, generally at least one or two (sometimes more) a week. Sometimes

I know

someone in the area, either personally or by reputation, though often I do not.

The

inquiries are mostly for North America, the UK and Australia/New Zealand as well

as for

Japan, but occasionally I get asked for referrals for other places as well

(continental

Europe, Israel, Latin America).

 

After fielding a couple of inquiries in the last week, it occurs to me that it

might not be a

bad idea to start a referral list to give people who inquire.

 

The vast majority of the inquiries are for " Japanese acupuncture " practitioners.

In the West

this generally means some form of Meridian Therapy -- ie, palpatory dx, gentle

techniques, thin needles. This may or may not involve the use of tiny direct

moxa, IP

cords, magnets, Sotai, etc. For purposes of the list, I'd like to keep to that

understanding,

knowing full well that Japanese acupuncture encompasses much more vigorous

approaches also... but since my training is mostly in Meridian Therapy, I'm

thinking more

along those lines. Other related neo-classical styles (Sawada style, topology

group of

Manaka et al, Kiiko, etc) are also included.

 

I also get occasional inquiries for Kampo practitioners.

 

I want to hear from people with something more than a minimal amount of training

in this

style. There aren't any rules for inclusion, but if you took one survey class

in school and

dust off the Seirin reds every once in a while for those " sensitive " patients

then you're not

really what I'm looking for. Ideally I would have people who have had

structured post-

graduate training (Toyohari association in any of its international branches;

Koei Kuahara's

Hari series at NESA; the TJAF seminars with Shudo, Ikeda, and Sorimachi sensei;

Edokai's

seminars with Okada sensei et al; Nigel Dawes kampo group; the Australian group

who

studies with Ikeda sensei; and others like that) or close association as a

student with a

Japanese Meridian Therapy practitioner of note (too numerous to mention). I

also want to

highlight people who do this type of treatment on a regular basis across a wide

cross

section of cases -- not just for kids or geriatric patients or nervous types --

in other

words who have made a commitment to practicing the style. It's not like I will

exclude you

if you use e-stim occasionally or anything, but I want people who have some

clinical

experience doing Meridian Therapy.

 

I won't charge anything to practitioners or querents for this. If you are

interested, drop

me an email at kampo36 (in other words, OFF LIST) and tell me about

yourself, your training, your teachers, how long you studied Meridian Therapy,

how long

you've been in practice, any specialty you have, etc. If you've met me at a

seminar, or if

you've bought me a beer, let me know that too ...there are people who I've

met in the

past that I'd be happy to recommend but I've lost track of them.

 

Be sure to give me some information on where prospective patients can contact

you, and

also if you have a website they can look up.

 

If I get enough qualified people, I may post a referral list on the website...

I'm still

undecided about that. For the time being I'll just keep a private list going

and give out

names when asked. Whether I give your name out depends on whether I feel

confident

that you've had some training and experience as well as who asks me for

referrals... if you

are in Arkansas and nobody ever writes me from there then I probably won't have

occasion

to give out your name.

 

As I mentioned earlier, this is an idea that just occurred to me and I'm willing

to do it for

nothing. It could turn out to be a very cool, positive thing which benefits

people and the

profession or it could turn out to be a lot of grief and big headaches for me.

If it's the

former, I'm happy to do it, if the latter I reserve the right to discontinue the

project at any

time.

 

Happy New Year,

robert hayden

 

p.s. : once again, contact me OFF LIST, i don't want to complicate Attilio's

life with this.

[Guest guest]

pls tell us what are TJM and Japanese acupuncture.

 

kampo36 <kampo36 wrote:

 

Dear colleagues,

 

I have a website at http://jabinet.net which is dedicated to traditional

Japanese medicine,

primarily classical acumoxa and Kampo. The website generates a fair number of

inquiries

for referrals, generally at least one or two (sometimes more) a week. Sometimes

I know

someone in the area, either personally or by reputation, though often I do not.

The

inquiries are mostly for North America, the UK and Australia/New Zealand as well

as for

Japan, but occasionally I get asked for referrals for other places as well

(continental

Europe, Israel, Latin America).

 

After fielding a couple of inquiries in the last week, it occurs to me that it

might not be a

bad idea to start a referral list to give people who inquire.

 

The vast majority of the inquiries are for " Japanese acupuncture " practitioners.

In the West

this generally means some form of Meridian Therapy -- ie, palpatory dx, gentle

techniques, thin needles. This may or may not involve the use of tiny direct

moxa, IP

cords, magnets, Sotai, etc. For purposes of the list, I'd like to keep to that

understanding,

knowing full well that Japanese acupuncture encompasses much more vigorous

approaches also... but since my training is mostly in Meridian Therapy, I'm

thinking more

along those lines. Other related neo-classical styles (Sawada style, topology

group of

Manaka et al, Kiiko, etc) are also included.

 

I also get occasional inquiries for Kampo practitioners.

 

I want to hear from people with something more than a minimal amount of training

in this

style. There aren't any rules for inclusion, but if you took one survey class

in school and

dust off the Seirin reds every once in a while for those " sensitive " patients

then you're not

really what I'm looking for. Ideally I would have people who have had

structured post-

graduate training (Toyohari association in any of its international branches;

Koei Kuahara's

Hari series at NESA; the TJAF seminars with Shudo, Ikeda, and Sorimachi sensei;

Edokai's

seminars with Okada sensei et al; Nigel Dawes kampo group; the Australian group

who

studies with Ikeda sensei; and others like that) or close association as a

student with a

Japanese Meridian Therapy practitioner of note (too numerous to mention). I

also want to

highlight people who do this type of treatment on a regular basis across a wide

cross

section of cases -- not just for kids or geriatric patients or nervous types --

in other

words who have made a commitment to practicing the style. It's not like I will

exclude you

if you use e-stim occasionally or anything, but I want people who have some

clinical

experience doing Meridian Therapy.

 

I won't charge anything to practitioners or querents for this. If you are

interested, drop

me an email at kampo36 (in other words, OFF LIST) and tell me about

yourself, your training, your teachers, how long you studied Meridian Therapy,

how long

you've been in practice, any specialty you have, etc. If you've met me at a

seminar, or if

you've bought me a beer, let me know that too ...there are people who I've

met in the

past that I'd be happy to recommend but I've lost track of them.

 

Be sure to give me some information on where prospective patients can contact

you, and

also if you have a website they can look up.

 

If I get enough qualified people, I may post a referral list on the website...

I'm still

undecided about that. For the time being I'll just keep a private list going

and give out

names when asked. Whether I give your name out depends on whether I feel

confident

that you've had some training and experience as well as who asks me for

referrals... if you

are in Arkansas and nobody ever writes me from there then I probably won't have

occasion

to give out your name.

 

As I mentioned earlier, this is an idea that just occurred to me and I'm willing

to do it for

nothing. It could turn out to be a very cool, positive thing which benefits

people and the

profession or it could turn out to be a lot of grief and big headaches for me.

If it's the

former, I'm happy to do it, if the latter I reserve the right to discontinue the

project at any

time.

 

Happy New Year,

robert hayden

 

p.s. : once again, contact me OFF LIST, i don't want to complicate Attilio's

life with this.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi,

 

Probably the quickest and easiest way is to look at my website, specifically

this page:

http://jabinet.net/keiraku.html

That sums up the style of practice I was talking about in the last post.

 

Japanese acupuncture is extrememly diverse, but what many people in the West

think of

when they mention Japanese acupuncture is this type of gentle,

minimally-invasive

acupuncture and moxibustion.

 

rh

 

Chinese Medicine , Shaobai Wang <sw126>

wrote:

> pls tell us what are TJM and Japanese acupuncture.

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