Module One: The Body-Feedback Fundamentals – Ch. 1 – Ch. 6

12.25 Total Video Hours 

Chapter One: The Trisections (1 hour)

• Gain a new understanding of how organs and allopathic body systems interact with the five-element engendering and restraining cycles.
• Learn how specific meridians interact with endocrine glands and the reproductive systems in a particular hierarchy, as illustrated by the endocrine funnel.
• Understand how qi moves through the six levels and how external pathogens and emotions create pathology and spread within the body.

Chapter Two: Trisection Discord (3 hours) 

• Learn how a root organ dysfunction causes trisection discord and how it can spread to other organs and trisections along the five-element engendering and restraining cycles.
• Identify constitutional weaknesses and root organ dysfunction with complex cases and multiple trisection discord.
• Discover how each trisection’s pathology affects allopathic body systems and how to use the Body-Feedback intake forms to group symptoms based on the six elemental pairs.
• Understand how health improves within the trisection model and what treatments support constitutional and genetic weaknesses.

Chapter Three: Pathogenic Heat (3.25 hours) 

• Explore how pathogenic heat interacts with the five-element engendering and restraining cycles.
• Distinguish between healthy and dysfunctional inflammatory cycles, understand how they contribute to or diminish pathogenic heat, and how supplements can support a healthy inflammatory cycle.
• Understand how external pathogens, including SARS viruses, cause pathogenic heat, which moves through the six qi levels.
• Learn how specific acupuncture points, based on their five-element point category, can either increase or decrease pathogenic heat.

Chapter Four: Body-Feedback Testing Methods  (1 hour)

• Discover the origins and development of the Body-Feedback testing methods.
• Learn to explain and begin practicing the testing methods.
• Explore other simple frequency-testing methods for self-care.

Chapter Five: Pulse Assessment (2 hours)

• Understand how the autonomic nervous system influences pulse assessment.
• Learn to combine pulse assessment with frequency testing throughout the three treatment stages.
• Discover which endocrine glands correspond to specific pulse positions and understand how common pathology in the endocrine system relates to these pulse positions.
• Recognize common imbalanced pulse positions that correspond with trisection discord and allopathic body-system dysfunction.

Chapter Six: The Body-Feedback Testing Locations (2 hours)

• Learn the location of master alarm points and regions, organ/meridian referral areas, and muscle associations for the different testing locations.
• Discover palpation methods for the different testing locations.
• Acquire the skills to compare the level of discomfort in specific testing locations before, during, and after acupuncture sessions.
• Understand how to communicate what the testing locations indicate regarding organ and meridian health.