Kanpo Diagnosis and Treatment of
Acute and Chronic Respiratory Conditions
with Nigel Dawes, MA, LAc
October 4 & 5, 2008
Portland, OR
Come join us in the beautiful Pacific Northwest for a rare opportunity to move beyond the typical Kanpo introductory seminar material with noted expert Nigel Dawes.This is a unique chance for those interested in abdominal diagnosis to enlarge their repertoire and understanding. We will start with a review of Kanpo basics so that newcomers can be accommodated. We will then cover the following respiratory conditions:
1. Common cold / Influenza
2. Bronchitis (Acute / chronic) & Pneumonia
3. Asthma
4. Bronchiecstasis
5. Sinusitis & Rhinitis
6. Emphysema & COPD
About Kanpo
Kanpo, which translated means “Han method”, is the system of herbal prescribing used in Japan. There are many unique features to the Kanpo system when compared to the practice of herbal medicine in China, but one that piques the interest of North American students of Chinese medicine is the key role played by abdominal diagnosis, or fukushin. This is a feature almost entirely absent from TCM practice, yet the experience of practitioners in Japan demonstrate that the abdomen holds key information that is not always likely to be revealed in a patient interview. In this two-day workshop we will focus a great deal of our time on hands-on practice under the tutelage of Nigel and his assistant. Participants will leave feeling confident in their understanding of the material and the method of palpation.
About the Instructor
Nigel Dawes, MA, LAc has been involved in the education and practice of Oriental Medicine for over 20 years. As founder and director of the Kanpo Internship (KI), he currently offers an accredited one-year post-graduate clinical apprenticeship in Sino-Japanese herbal medicine in New York. He is on faculty at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine and Tristate College of Traditional Acupuncture in Manhattan and regularly presents at conferences and teaches workshops throughout the US, in Europe and in Israel. He has a private practice in New York City.
Nigel founded and directed the London College of Shiatsu from 1988-1993, which offered an accredited 3-year training in Shiatsu and Oriental Medicine. His training included six years in Japan where he graduated from acupuncture school in 1985, pursued a formal apprenticeship in Zen Shiatsu and studied Kanpo, followed by post-graduate clinical studies in Beijing. He returned to the UK in 1987 to pursue further post-graduate work in clinical medicine and Kanpo.
He is the author of two books on Shiatsu and numerous articles on Oriental Medicine and is about to publish a translation of a contemporary Japanese Kanpo text with a colleague from London.
