MA 2 is taught over twelve days (six, two day sessions) as well as a practice visit towards the beginning of the module. The focus of learning is the practitioner's own clinical practice, and the module is assessed with a viva during the penultimate session of the module.
Module Content:
- Yin Yang & the Five Elements: a fundamental integrity
• Class patients discussion
• Sheng & K'o elemental inter-relationships
• Blocks to healing
• The six junctions between Heaven & Earth
• Tongue diagnosis in the Five Elements
• Pulses from the Classics
• Empty spaces - location and spirit of points
• The art and skill of point selection
• The patient-practitioner relationship from the classics
• Eight Extraordinary vessels - Qi Jing Ba Mai
• The Officials government of Qi, Jing, Shen, Blood and Jin Ye
• Needles as Ling Shu - the spiritual pivot of needling practice
• Ben and Biao
• Developing sensory acuity and discrimination
• Seeing the withins: the artistry of diagnosis
• Medication and red flags
• Disease, disposition and destiny