Canonical Chinese Medicine Training™

Jingui Yaolue Training Sequence, Chicago 2012

Weekend 1-3, The Diseases of the Jingui Yaolue
Weekend 4, Jingui Yaolue Pulse Diagnosis
Weekend 5, Jingui Yaolue Abdominal Diagnosis: Fukushin
Weekend 6, Jingui Yaolue Case Studies

Curriculum Description
Weekends 1 – 3
The Diseases of the Jingui Yaolue
This is the authoritative instruction of the etio-pathology and treatment of over 70
complex diseases recorded in the Essentials of the Golden Cabinet or Jingui Yaolue.
During these two weekends, virtually all illnesses of the original text are discussed in
great detail, allowing the student to gain an ultimate and conclusive insight into the
pathomechanisms behind these often chronic, recalcitrant and debilitating illnesses. The
formulas used in the Jingui are taught in their respective clinical contexts.
The first weekend starts with instruction on disease progression of complex illnesses, and
treatment strategy along that sequence. The bulk of the instruction of both weekends
follows the original order of the Jingui, chapter by chapter, line by line.
Furthermore, during the second weekend, all thirty-six women’s diseases are instructed in
great detail. The thirty-six women’s diseases are the blueprint of all ob-gyn in Chinese
medicine. Understanding of the thirty-six diseases allows the student to master obstetrics
and gynecology as practiced by Zhang Zhongjing.
Content List:
Convulsion Disease (jing)
Dampness Disease (shi)
Summer-heat Disease (ye)
Lily Bulb Disease (baihe bing)
Fox and Confusion Disease (huhuo bing)
Yin Yang Toxin Disease (yinyang du bing)
Malaria Disease (nuebing)
Wind Strike Disease (zhongfeng bing)
Digit and Articulation Disease (lijie bing)
Blood Impediment Disease (xuebi bing)
Deficiency Taxation Disease (xulao bing)
Lung Wasting Disease (feiwei bing)
Lung Abscess Disease (feiyong)
Cough and Averse Qi Flow (kesou shangqi)
Running Piglet Disease (bentun bing)
Chest Obstruction Disease (xiongbi bing)
Heart Pain Disease (xintong bing)
Shortness of Breath (qi duan)
Abdominal Fullness Disease (fuman bing)
Cold Hernia Disease (hanshan bing)
Food Stagnation Disease (sushi bing)
Wind Cold Disease of the Five Solid Organs (wuzang fenghan bing)
Liver Stickiness
Spleen Constraint
Kidney Stickiness
Phlegm Rheum Cough Disease (tanyin kesou bing)
Consumptive Thirst Disease (xiaoke bing)
Dripping Urination Disease (xiaobian linli bing)
Water Qi Disease (shuiqi bing)
Jaundice Disease (huangdan bing)
Fright and Scare Disease (jingji bing)
Vomiting and Diarrhea Disease (outu xiali bing)
Vomiting of Blood, Nosebleeds and Collapse of Blood Disease (tu niu xiaxue bing)
Sores and Abscesses Disease (chuangyong bing)
Weeping Sores Disease (qinyin chuangbing)
Pregnancy Diseases: pregnancy (furen Renshen bing: renshen)
Pregnancy Diseases: preexisting mass disease (sujia bing)
Pregnancy Diseases: threatening miscarriage (cold)
Pregnancy Diseases: Womb Congestion (baozhu) with spotting (hot) (louxia)
Pregnancy Diseases: Abdominal Pain (jiaotong)
Pregnancy Diseases: Vomiting (outu)
Pregnancy Diseases: Difficult Urination (hot) (xiaobian nan)
Pregnancy Diseases: Water Qi, Difficult Urination (cold) (shuiqi)
Pregnancy Diseases: pregnancy support (hot)
Pregnancy Diseases: pregnancy support (cold)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum cold (chanhou yumao)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum fever (chanhou fare)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum abdominal pain (chanhou futong)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum abdominal pain (qi) (chanhou futong)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum abdominal pain (blood) (chanhou futong)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum abdominal pain (heat) (chanhou futong)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum wind-cold (chronic) (chanhou zhongfeng)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum wind-cold (acute) (chanhou zhongfeng)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum dysentery and extreme deficiency (chanhou xiali jixu)
Post-partum Diseases: post-partum fatigue (chanhou xuying buzu)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Heat Entering the Blood Chamber (re ru xueshi)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Plumpit Qi (meihe qi)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Visceral Unrest (zangzao)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Below the Belt Disease (daixia bing)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Inhibited Menstrual Flow (jingshui buli)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Sharp Abdominal Pain (fuzheng chitong)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Twisted Bladder (zhuanbao)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Menstrual Collapse (xianjing)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Hard Uterus and Incessant Leucorrhea (zangjian pi buzhi)
Women’s Complex Diseases: Vaginal Flatulence (yin cui)

Weekend 4:
Jingui Yaolue Pulse Diagnosis
Diagnosis in Han-dynasty was primarily done by taking the pulse. Every formula can be
identified through one or more pulse patterns presenting in the patient. Though many
pulses are mentioned in the Jingui Yaolue, crucial detail is often hidden, and it is as if this
knowledge is merely implicitly present, as if it were embedded. Therefore, the Tian
Heming Canonical Formula lineage’s main strength and contribution to the field of
Chinese medicine to have made this advanced knowledge on pulse diagnosis crystal clear
and evident. This knowledge has never been recorded in any book, but was rather
transmitted orally from Dr. Tian Heming through Dr. Zeng Rongxiu to Dr. Arnaud
Versluys. The latter of which has been teaching this material around the world in more
systematized and structured format since a few years.

The Jingui Yaolue pulse diagnosis weekend will introduce the student to the pulse
patterns associated with all the formulas taught in Jingui weekends 1 and 2. This will
enable the practitioner to diagnose and prescribe directly from the pulse as usually
performed by Canonical masters of yore. While in the Shanghan Lun Pulse Diagnosis of
the Tian lineage, the pulses are very linear and structured along the six conformations, the
Jingui pulses associated with the Complex Disease zabing, are more thorny and nonlinear,
reflecting the complicated and convoluted nature of the diseases. A much greater
emphasis on the pathological products (phlegm, stasis, pus, etc) is evident in the pulse
patterns.

During this seminar you will be taught the primary and secondary pulse patterns for all
the Jingui Yaolue formulas mentioned in the first two weekends of the series. As such,
this weekend cannot be taken as a stand-alone seminar and must be taken in succession.

Weekend 5:
Jingui Yaolue Abdominal Diagnosis: Fukushin
Japanese abdominal diagnosis or Fukushin is the diagnostic art developed in medieval
Japan based on the canonical writings by Zhang Zhongjing. Careful inspection of the
Shanghan Zabing Lun reveals countless references to abdominal conditions that could
only have been diagnosed by actual palpation of the abdomen. The skill however never
fully developed in China but flourished in Japan. Fukushin refers specifically to the
style of abdominal diagnosis developed by Japanese scholars during the Edo period
(1603-1867 CE) for the purpose of prescribing the Han dynasty formulas of Zhang
Zhongjing.

As an integral part of the Canonical Chinese Medicine Training™ of Dr. Arnaud
Versluys, Fukushin is taught to match the abdominal patterns with formula methods and
formula families. The pulse diagnosis seminar introduces a lock-and-key system for
recognizing pulses for the various prescriptions while the Fukushin part of the canonical
training introduces the second leg of Zhang Zhongjing’s original diagnostic methods as a
mirror to the practice of pulse diagnosis, allowing for a failsafe system of diagnostic
checks and balances.

During the first two weekends of the Jingui Yaolue sequence, the practitioner learns
about the etio-pathology of the various diseases of the Jingui. The third weekend instructs
how to diagnose these conditions from the pulse. But pulse diagnosis is difficult and slow
to grasp, as such Zhang Zhongjing used a secondary diagnostic tool of abdominal
palpation to verify findings in the pulse. The two diagnostic methods in conjunction
ensure accuracy and speed in identifying which formula is indicated. Furthermore,
abdominal diagnosis can even clarify sometimes obscure pulse findings or identify
certain conditions before they evolve to the pulse stage.

Through this training, the participant will learn the theory behind Jingui Yaolue
abdominal diagnosis for complex diseases, including an in-depth understanding of the
pathomechanism of the abdominal patterns, as well as the interpretation of these
actionable findings and their direct translation into herbal treatment with classical
formulas. The second part of the course will instruct in the hands-on procedure of the
abdominal examination.

Co-instructor: Kumiko Shirai, MSOM, LAc
Kumiko Shirai grew up in Kobe, Japan, but has been living in the USA for more than ten
years. Influenced by her mother, a Taiji master, she learned to appreciate Asian medical
and martial arts from an early age and has been practicing Aikido for almost twenty
years. Kumiko majored in Chinese Studies (BS) and attended the School of Classical
Chinese Medicine at the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland, OR, USA
where she ultimately graduated with a Masters (MS) of Oriental Medicine. Kumiko
trained in discipleship with Dr. Arnaud Versluys for three years and specializes in Han dynasty
herbal medicine and Japanese abdominal diagnosis fukushin. She is a coinstructor
in Dr. Versluys’ Canonical Chinese Medicine Training™ curriculum and
teaches both in the US and in Europe. Kumiko can be reached at kshirai@iceam.org

Weekend 6:
Jingui Yaolue Case Studies
The Shanghan Zabing Lun is the first historical manual to teach the treatment of both
acute and chronic complex diseases that have been triggered externally or have arisen
from internal damage. Though a classical work, it is of great clinical value for modern
day practice.

During this seminar, Dr. Versluys will provide a case-based instruction on the
pathomechanism and herbal treatment of a core selection of modern diseases as analyzed
and regarded through the classical lens of Zhang Zhongjing. The cases all come from Dr.
Versluys’ personal clinic and are of great relevance in modern Chinese medicine clinic in
the West. Dr. Versluys has for years exclusively been practicing the classical style of
internal medicine as instructed in the Shanghan and the Jingui, and has amassed a great
amount of experience in this field.

The lectures are divided in clinical specialties and will present case studies covering all
systems, such as: Respirology, contagious illnesses, gastroenterology, neurology,
cardiology, rheumatology, oncology, gynecology, obstetrics, urology and dermatology.
Some of the diseases discussed will be: Viral Influenza, Hypertension, Meniere’s
Disease, Crohn’s Disease, Depressive Disorder, Insomnia, Coronary Heart Disease,
Emphysema, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Hemophilia, Cerebrovascular Accident,
Rheumatoid Arthritis, Asthma, Cancer (benign and malignant tumors), Arrhythmia,
Infertility, Dysmenorrhea, Amenorrhea, Infertility, Miscarriage, etc, to name but a few.
The lecture will provide the student with an in-depth and advanced instruction on how to
effectively treat common disorders with herbal medicine. Insight in the pathomechanism
of the disorders will be obtained through case analysis and herbal formulas will be
explained and discussed with practical examples from clinic. This seminar is the
culmination of all previous seminars and discusses theory as well as pulse and abdomen
diagnosis, formula modifications, etc, effectively preparing the participant for the clinical
practice of Canonical Chinese Medicine.