Upcoming Webinar: Ten Times More Difficult to Treat: Why the Seventh Century Hermit Sun Simiao Cared About Female Bodies and What He Has to Teach Us Today
This is a teaser to Sabine Wilms' full day talk she is presenting at the pacific Symposium Nov 6, 2011.
One hour free webinar, Monday October 24th
California 5-6pm
Colorado 6-7pm
Texas - 7-8pm
New York 8-9pm
Nova Scotia 9-10pm
England Tue Oct 25th 1am-2am
Australia, Melbourne Tue Oct 25th 11am-11am
New Zealand Tue Oct 25th 1pm-2pm
Description:
Sabine will discuss the reasons why women's health was such an important topic in classical Chinese medicine. By looking specifically at Sun Simiao's writings on gynecology in the Qianjinfang (7th century), we will consider the connections between yangsheng (nurturing life), reproduction and fertility, menstruation, medical ethics, etc., before summarizing briefly the key notions of early Chinese gynecology. In the concluding discussion, we'll explore how this information can help you improve your female patients' health today.
Moderated by Lorne Brown B.Sc.,Dr.TCM, FABORM, CHt of www.acubalance.ca
Bio:
After high school and some undergraduate training in Germany, Sabine Wilms spent two years in Taiwan, studying modern and classical Chinese language and culture. She then moved to the US for her graduate studies and has lived there most of the time since. Sabine has been studying classical Chinese writings on medicine ever since her PhD program in Asian Studies and medical Anthropology. While her academic background has given her a solid foundation in early Chinese philosophy, science, and cosmology and therefore in a historically and culturally sensitive approach to classical Chinese medicine, she also enjoys an ethnomedical approach to Chinese medicine as a living, clinically effective, and ever-changing response to any given cultural environment. She focuses her research and teaching on gynecology, reproduction, and “nurturing life,” as understood in the broadest sense by the great medieval “King of Medicinals” Sun Simiao. Sabine is happiest when engaging in a dialogue with practitioners on how to make this ancient wisdom come alive in our modern times. Following in Sun Simiao’s footsteps, she currently divides her time between writing and lecturing on Chinese medicine and raising goats, poultry, bees, and apples on her small biodynamic farm in the mountains of Northern New Mexico.
Her publications include
Pathomechanisms of the Five Viscera (translator, separate books on the Heart, Liver, Lung, Spleen, and Kidney, 2005-2007, Paradigm Publications);
Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang, Essential Prescriptions worth a Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency: Volumes 2-4 on Gynecology (The Chinese Medicine Database, 2007);
Chinese Medicine in Infertility (co-edited with Andreas Noll; Thieme Publications, 2009);
The Great Compendium of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, Zhen Jiu Da Cheng, Volume 1 (The Chinese Medicine Database, 2010);
Formulas from the Golden Cabinet with Songs (The Chinese Medicine Database, 2010)
Jin gui yao lue: Essential Prescriptions of the Golden Coffer (co-authored with Nigel Wiseman, forthcoming by Paradigm Publications).
Concise Introduction to Chinese Medicine (co-authored with Nigel Wiseman, forthcoming by Paradigm Publications).
Bei Ji Qian Jin Yao Fang, Essential Prescriptions worth A Thousand in Gold for Every Emergency: Volume 5 on Pediatrics (The Chinese Medicine Database, forthcoming in 2011).
