Healing the Gut with Ancient Turtle Abdominal Acupuncture

Healing the Gut with Ancient Turtle Abdominal Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine -

Neurologic, Sensory and Psychosocial Disorders

Earn 12 CE credits!

PDA Category: AOM-AC

Date & Time: October 22nd & 23rd, 9:00 am - 12:15 pm & 2 - 5:15pm

Instructor: Dr. Shengyan "Grace" Tan

About Dr. Tan

Dr. Tan has more than 16 years of clinical experience of treating eye disease (correlation between digestive disorders and degenerative eye diseases), ENT(ear, nose and throat), endocrine and gastrointestinal disorders. Dr. Shengyan ‘Grace’ Tan was born in Chengdu, China into a Traditional Chinese medicine family. In their family lineage of Tan’s, her father and grandfather are both Traditional Chinese medicine doctors. She inherited her father's legacy in nutritional therapy/botanical herbal dietary therapy and herbal preparation and completed her 11 years PhD in both Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and conventional biomedicine at Chengdu University of TCM ( one of the top 4 TCM universities’ in China), She was mentored there by Dr. Wang Mingfang, a world-renowned eye disease expert and retina specialist in the field of Ophthalmology, treating eye disease with acupuncture and botanical herbal medicine, and Dr. Deng Zhongjia, one of China’s primary expert in the fields of botanical herbal formula studies and the classical foundations of botanical Chinese herbal medicine. In addition, she sought out the classical roots of Traditional Chinese medicine outside the institutionalized TCM setting: Daoist medicine and Yijing-I Ching with Zhou Xuexi; Wenbing tongue and pulse diagnosis with Zhang Ziwen; Sichuan Daosim and Shanghan lun pulse diagnosis with Chen Chaozu. Since 2008, she has published and lectured widely on both the theoretical and clinical aspects of treating eye disease-Gut Health and Vision, with acupuncture/abdominal acupuncture and Traditional Chinese botanical Medicine internationally.

Dr. Tan worked as a physician (M.D.)/TCM doctor at the teaching hospital of Chengdu University of TCM, and also taught acupuncture/TCM in Chengdu University of TCM, After being invited to be a visiting professors invites at institutions abroad, Dr. Tan made Austin, Texas her home and became a professor at AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, teaching master and doctoral level students. While the focus of her expertise has been on treating eye disease, ENT, endocrine and gastrointestinal disorder with classical acupuncture, botanical herbal medicine, Dr. Tan always comes back to the root of classic TCM, “understanding the root cause of the dysfunction”.

In this course, Dr. Tan will cover the following:

• An introduction of the Ancient Turtle Abdominal Acupuncture System alongside a review of the Ba Gua - Eight Diagram theory.

• Review the TCM theory of gut healing as it pertains to neurologic, sensory and psychosocial disorders and syndrome differentiation.

• Discuss and demonstrate classical needle techniques, point locations and treatment protocol of ancient turtle abdominal acupuncture followed by hands on practice.

• Discuss Chinese Herbal Medicine for gut healing, neurological, sensory and psychosocial disorders, syndrome differentiation and case studies.

Have questions about the event? Contact our Continuing Educations Coordinator Annabelle Galvan at [email protected]!

*This is a two-day course that will take place October 22nd + 23rd on the AOMA campus.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

AOMA Graduate School of Integrative Medicine, 4701 West Gate Boulevard, Austin, United States