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Four Traditional Chinese Medicine graduates from Melbourne Australia share their experiences, knowledge and questions about Chinese Medicine.
Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas Yangers! Welcome back to the 3rd and final part of Shen Psycho-Emotional Aspects of Chinese Medicine by Elisa Rossi. In this part, we'll cover section III of the book: Deficiency and Excess! This will be our final episode of the year, and what better time to keep our Shen intact for the end year! We'll be back next year with more books to du next year! So have a happy holiday and we'll seeee you in the next one
This book presents explains how the emotional, mental, and physical elements of Chinese Medicine in illness are extremely effective therapy in dealing with cases where the alterations of the shen are both obvious and subtle. The book focuses on the psycho-spiritual aspects of patients' conditions and is purposely constructed to facilitate practitioners' formulations of diagnosis and treatment. It reflects throughout the patient-practitioner relationship, resources, various characteristics, inherent problems, and qualities of acupuncture.
Join us in this month's episode of Du With us!
We're back this month to solve some cases! Welcome back to this month's episode where we look into clues on how to solve some of the cases from the books we've done together. Case studies are one of the best ways to reflect and examine how to approach a patient in a theoretical sense to transform it to a practical sense. We'll be finished the final section of Shen in the next episode. Join us this week in solve patient cases!
We're back again with Part 2 of the same book by Shen Psycho-Emotional Aspects of Chinese Medicine by Elisa Rossi. In this part, we'll cover section II of the book, which covers: Constraint Yu, Emotions and heat, Agitation and restlessness, insomnia, manic depression, and other classical literature mental conditions.
This book presents explains how the emotional, mental, and physical elements of Chinese Medicine in illness are extremely effective therapy in dealing with cases where the alterations of the shen are both obvious and subtle. The book focuses on the psycho-spiritual aspects of patients' conditions and is purposely constructed to facilitate practitioners' formulations of diagnosis and treatment. It reflects throughout the patient-practitioner relationship, resources, various characteristics, inherent problems, and qualities of acupuncture.
Join us in this month's episode of Du With us!
Sorry for the delay, Tom's been taking a few mental health days. What a great segway into this month's book! This month's book is Shen Psycho-Emotional Aspects of Chinese Medicine by Elisa Rossi. This book presents explains how the emotional, mental, and physical elements of Chinese Medicine in illness are extremely effective therapy in dealing with cases where the alterations of the shen are both obvious and subtle. The book focuses on the psycho-spiritual aspects of patients' conditions and is purposely constructed to facilitate practitioners' formulations of diagnosis and treatment. It reflects throughout the patient-practitioner relationship, resources, various characteristics, inherent problems, and qualities of acupuncture.
Join us in this month's episode of Du With us!
While many books outline the popular teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, only this one offers step-by-step instructions for treating injuries. Expert practitioner and martial artist Tom Bisio explains the complete range of healing strategies and provides a Chinese first-aid kit to help the reader fully recover from every mishap: cuts, sprains, breaks, dislocations, bruises, muscle tears, tendonitis, and much more. Join us this week in reading this month's book:
A Tooth from the Tiger's Mouth: How to Treat Your Injuries with Powerful Healing Secrets of the Great Chinese Warrior by Tom Bisio
It's that time of the month! (not that time of the month) But we're back this July with another Du With Us! This month's book is the The tao of healthy eating by Bob Flaws (3rd Edition). This book presents both the traditional Chinese teaching on preventive & remedial dietary therapy as well as addresses such modern Western concerns as high cholesterol, candidiasis & obesity. The author begins with an introduction to the basic theories of Chinese medicine as they relate to digestion, diet & health
Join us in this month's episode of Du With us!
Welcome to the second part of the GI tract! The yangsters are back on tract with the GI tract. We'll be running through everything from tummy to tail when it comes to digestion in Chinese Medicine. This week's episode is more about what comes out than what comes in. While the waste we often flush away is... waste, it can actually provide us with a lot of information how the body processes this waste. Lets talk about it!
Welcome to our first series of 2022! The yangsters are back on tract with the GI tract. We'll be running through everything from tongue to tail when it comes to digestion in Chinese Medicine. From the food that comes in and how it gets process with the organs in a TCM approach. We'll see you all next week when we cover Lower GI tract!
Welcome back Yangsters! Face it, sometimes it's difficult to not judge someone when you first see their face. Now you can do it from a Chinese Medicine point of view! Joking aside, face reading has been a diagnostic tool for Chinese medicine for thousands of years. In this week's book, we read Face reading in Chinese Medicine by Lillian Bridges, with more than 200 photos in her book. She provides a clear explanation of how to diagnose and treat people with different faces. Come join us this week with Face reading!
Welcome, 2022! The year of the tiger! This week we are ready and recharged for the new year. Happy Chinese New year to everyone to the Year of the Tiger! Huddle close to people born in the years of Oxs' and Goats' to hopefully rub off some of their good luck this year.
Unfortunately, we're still dealing with the likes of COVID! But we're staying optimistic and hopeful that we can continue with a new kind of lifestyle moving forward! Stay safe and happy new year Yangsters!
We've finally made it yangsters! The final episode for the year! It's been a long one, but we here at Forever Yang would like to say thank you for 'Du'-ing with us this last year. We have many more plans for the coming year with more podcast episodes, more series, more guests, and more books! We'll be taking a break this coming January, but we'll be back and ready to release more episodes for the next year!
Thank you all again for listening with us, all we'll see you in the next one!
Merry Christmas and have a happy new year
Life moves so quickly, we often forget where we've started from. For the Yangster, this is time for all of us to reflect on our lives since the start of the pandemic. This includes the past, the present and our futures together. This week's podcast is a simple, yet great way for us to re-connect and find out how we've developed since leaving our lives as graduates.
The book Charlene was talking about is called The Essential Guide to Acupuncture in Pregnancy & Childbirth by Debra Betts.
Come join us this week in our talk about our steps as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner.
Welcome back to Du with Us! This month's book is Feed Your Fertility: Your Guide to Cultivating a Healthy Pregnancy with Chinese Medicine, Real Food, and Holistic Living by Emily Bartlett and Laura Erlich
It started with egg and now we're on to the food! Gobble this month's book on the holistic approach to treating fertility with the use of supplements and food. We fry our best at talking about the applications of diet in TCM and fertility and its relevance to our practice. Read with us as we find out how to use food for medicine
Our next book is: Face Reading in Chinese Medicine by Lillian Bridges
You can get this months book here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Feed-Your-Fertility-Cultivating-Pregnancy/dp/1592336620
Welcome back to Du with Us! This month's book is It starts with the egg by Rebecca Fett
What better way is there to start a new type of genre than it starts with the egg! This book is a holistic western medicine approach to treating fertility with the use of supplements and looking at individual lifestyles. We give our spin on it, as there are a lot of similarities with TCM and how it can be tied in with this book. Our journey into approaching medicine with Western medicine starts now!
Our next book is: Feed Your Fertility: Your Guide to Cultivating a Healthy Pregnancy with Chinese Medicine by Emily Bartlett and Laura Erlich.
You can get this months book here:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Starts-Egg-Second-Naturally-Miscarriage-ebook/dp/B07NJ85ZFJ
Welcome back to Du with Us! This month's book is Curing Fibromyalgia Naturally With Chinese Medicine by Bob Flaws!
This book has got it all on how to deal with curing fibromyalgia naturally and holistically. Western medicine might not have all the answers for this condition yet, but TCM may be able to shed some light. This book covers acupuncture, herbal formulas, and other natural remedies to empower you to treat FMS.
Our next book is: It starts with the Egg By Rebecca Fett
You can get it here for around $14 :
https://www.amazon.com/Curing-Fibromyalgia-Naturally-Chinese-Medicine/dp/1891845098
Welcome back yangsters! We're finally back after a short... 6-month break! Unfortunately, B and Nick won't be able to join us for a while but it's going to amazing as they begin their journey as Chinese Medicine Practitioners! (yay for them!)
In this week's episode, we cover the book called "Explain Pain" by David S. Butler and G. Lorimer Moseley.
Imagine an orchestra in your brain. It plays all kinds of harmonious melodies, then the pain comes along and the different sections of the orchestra are reduced to a few pain tunes. All pain is real. And for many people, it is a debilitating part of everyday life. It is now known that understanding more about why things hurt can actually help people to overcome their pain. Explain Pain discusses how pain responses are produced by the brain: how responses to injury from the autonomic motor and immune systems in your body contribute to pain
Hello Yangsters! Kick back and relax for this is our final episode for the year! All of us at Forever Yang would like to give you our sincerest appreciation for listening and sticking with us for this year. We've all learnt a lot (and we hope you have too!) and thank you for sticking with us through tough times. Our goal for next year is to bring on lots more new content and more guests!
We wish you all a happy holiday. Stay safe and we'll see you in the next year!
Welcome to the last episode of the Musculoskeletal series! To round of these series, we've invited a special guest, Vanissa Tang, to join us!
Vanissa is a registered physiotherapist with a Masters of Physiotherapy Practice from La Trobe University. Vanissa has a clinical focus in the management of neuromusculoskeletal injury, post-surgical rehabilitation, exercise rehabilitation, movement disorders and any joint dysfunction and work-related posture and ergonomics.
This week, she explains how physiotherapists treat musculoskeletal pain and problems, and its integration with traditional Chinese Medicine.
A very warm thank you again to Vanissa for join the yangsters in the podcast this week, we hope to have you on again soon!
Book an appointment with Vanissa here!
https://www.whitecoat.com.au/physiotherapist/vic/glen-waverley/tang/638251
Instagram:
@Physio.vee
Welcome to the second last episode of the musculoskeletal series! This week we're in (k)need for the knee and ankle! We're capping down on back pain and other clinical and anatomically relevant information. Butt that's not all, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective.
Join us this week on our second last episode for musculoskeletal series.
We're Back with Lower Back this week! This week's episode, we break down the back into 2 segments: the lower back and gluteal region. We're cracking down on back pain and other clinical and anatomically relevant information. Butt that's not all, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective.
Join us this week on our musculoskeletal series.
Need a hand? Well we're here to help! This week's episode, we break down the arm into 3 segments: the arm, the forearm and the hand. We go through clinical and anatomically relevant information to the section. Similarly, we discuss ways on what tests to use and how to treat them from a Chinese Medicine Perspective.
Join us this week on our musculoskeletal series.
Welcome back to the Musculoskeletal series! This week's topic is Upper back and shoulder! Join us this week as we cover the scapular stabilizer, rotator cuff and so much more!
It's time to think ahead... and a neck because this week we talk about the anatomy and skeletal problems in the head and neck region. Join us this week, as the yangsters talk about how to approach these conditions from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective!
Welcome back to Du with Us! This month's book is Curing IBS Naturally with Chinese Medicine by Jane Bean!
This book has got it all on how to deal with Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) naturally and holistically. It will cover the acupuncture, herbal formulas, and other natural remedies to empower you to treat IBS. There's also a little bit of clinical research at the end that rounds off everything she said that ties it up beautifully!
You can get it here for around $30 :
https://www.amazon.com/Curing-IBS-Naturally-Chinese-Medicine/dp/189184511X
The skeleton is out of the closet and we're back with another series! This series, we're talking about bones, muscles and all the stuff in between. We'll be splitting this up into 8 sections: the neck and head, Shoulder, upper back, lower back, hip and groin, lower limb, and physiotherapy.
We'll be going over tests that can be performed to observe which muscles to use, and what treatments you can use to treat these condition. Buckle up everyone, we're off on our next journey through the musculoskeletal!
Fatigue is extremely prevalent during modern times, especially considering our current situation. While it can be considered not lethal, it can really debilitating on one's quality of life. The cause of fatigue is still unknown in conventional medicine but Chinese Medicine may have a possible solution. Join the Yangsters with this weeks as they go through how to tackle fatigue together!
Taking the first step into becoming a practitioner can be daunting and quite scary. For the Yangster, it meant more than hundreds of hours treating and seeing patients in a student clinic. In this week's episode, they'll talk about advice that they wished they gave themselves and their experience when taking their first steps as a practitioner.
Come join us this week in our talk about baby steps as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner.
Welcome back to Du With Us! This month's book is Eye Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive TCM Guide for the Discerning Practitioner by Deliang Zheng, translated by Zhicheng Zheng.
As if Chinese Medicine wasn't big enough. This book by Deliang Zheng, opens up a whole new world to using the eye for diagnosing patients. It's eye opening! Charlene and Tim look to review the book and give their recommendations on the book's worth and who should read it.
Charlene's also provided a great image of the sclera for review, if you choose to read it :
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/674537170605965341/755758466362245170/20200916_215405.jpg
You can also buy the book at:
https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Diagnosis-Chinese-Medicine-Comprehensive-ebook/dp/B00M4E3ZTS
Welcome to the last episode (for now) of the introductory series! As Bruce lee once said, "Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. " That is why this week, we're applying all our previously learnt knowledge to apply and how to diagnose and examine patients. The four pillars we observe in Traditional Chinese Medicine include:
- Looking
- Listening (or as Nic call's it: Interrogation)
- Smelling and Tasting
- Touching (and Feeling the Pulse)
For your honorary time, with these last 11 episodes. We in the Forever Yang Team would like to present you with your graduation certificate.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pnqElHNglDcV1YdAcDa_ra9AezcRjiVB/view?usp=sharing
Welcome young grass hopper! We've advanced to the next stage in our training. Now with our cups full of knowledge about the yin and yang, and ability to differentiate between organs and their functions. It's now time to begin our training in pattern differentiation. So please, wax on and wax off, because this week we cover the 8 guiding principles on how illness can be diagnosed in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Notes:
The 8 guiding principles include: heat and cold, exterior or interior, excess (full) or deficiency (empty), yin and yang.
Sorry for the late upload, life just caught up to us for a bit!
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! We're talking about Extraordinary organs this week! Extraordinary organs are Fu- organs. This takes about their hollowness and will generally pertain to Yin! These include: the brain, the bone marrow, the bones, the vessels, the gallbladder and the uterus. We discuss the importance and why they're considered an extra in Traditional Chinese Medicine, compared to the Western Medicine counterparts. Similarly, we'll go over their functionality as well.
If none of this makes any sense to you, try giving the previous episodes a quick listen.
Welcome to our final stop in our journey! It's been fun riding with everyone but now it's time to for our final stop at the Pericardium and the Triple energizer (or Triple burner or San Jiao). With a name that long, you bet there's going to be just as long as an explanation on what that is.
For now, Seatbelts everyone!Will this be a normal field trip? No way! Join the yangsters as we finish our journey back to the heart and sanjiao!
Spring is right around the corner and we're here to help everyone prepare for Spring! In Chinese Medicine, Spring can be seen as the first part of the seasonal cycle and it's great for starting and turning on a new leaf! We're doing our spring cleaning, amidst this crisis, in trying to examine what's up and coming for spring. Spring is the season of Wind and pollen and hay-fever is running rampant (if you're still going outside that is).
Join us this week as we talk about how to prepare for spring in this week's podcast!
Seatbelts again everyone!Will this be a normal field trip? No way! Join the yangsters, as we take the Chinese Medicine Magic School bus into the insides and organs of the body.
Buckle up kids, because this week we take a ride up to the liver and gallbladder. We're looking for a smooth ride with no turbulence. This'll be a fun ride to the liver and gallbladder!
Welcome back to Du-ing with us. This month we're reading the book: The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Medicine: A New Translation of the Neijing Suwen with Commentary by Mao Shing Ni. This book can be considered one of the pillars in taoism and the Traditional Chinese Medicine community. Is it worth its weight in gold? (spoilers: yes) Find out more about it in this month's Du With Us!
Amazon link:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Yellow-Emperors-Classic-Medicine-Maoshing/dp/1570620806
Seatbelts again everyone!Will this be a normal field trip? No way! Join the yangsters, as we take the Chinese Medicine Magic School bus into the insides and organs of the body. Buckle up kids, because this week we take a long ride from the kidney to the urinary bladder. Make sure to take your toilet breaks, because we're in for a long ride. We're here to make it as smooth and clear as possible. Try not to get your knickers in a knot!
EDIT: Sorry for the late upload yangasters, Tom here. Sorry for the late upload, I want to say coronavirus, but its not really haha.
Seatbelts again everyone! Will this be a normal field trip? No way! Join the yangsters, as we take the Chinese Medicine Magic School bus into the insides and organs of the body. This week, we'll continue from the Spleen up to the , Zang Fu organs, Heart(Zang organ) and Small intestine (Fu organ). This week, we talk about the matters from heart to heart and how emotional aspects can affect your heart and shen (spirit) from the Chinese Medicine perspective. Join us this week's episode of Forever Yang
We're back again, so seatbelts everyone! Will this be a normal field trip? No way! (Magic School bus reference). This week, we'll going from the lungs to the stomach. We're cover the pairing, Zang Fu organs, Spleen (Zang organ) and Stomach (Fu organ). We won't just breath over the functionalities, but their associated flavor, season of the year, and even their psychological affect on the soul. Have no idea what we're talking about? Well, we'll explain it all in this weeks introductory series on Forever Yang.
Welcome back to Du with Us! This month, our book is Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, translated by Stephen Mitchell. The book illustrates the importance to self awareness and important life lessons that we can still draw from thousands of years ago. It's importance is the founding and fundamentals to the Tao (the way). The art of doing without doing. Its significance is more prevalent today than it has ever been.
Join us this week, in our review on Tao Te Ching and to du (Chinese pin yin translation for read) or not to du.
Seatbelts everyone! Will this be a normal field trip? No way! Join the yangsters, as we take the Chinese Medicine Magic School bus into the insides and organs of the body. This week, we'll enter through the nose and cover the pairing, Zang Fu organs, Lung (Zang organ) and Large intestine (Fu organ). We won't just breath over the functionalities, but their associated flavor, season of the year, and even their psychological affect on the soul. Have no idea what we're talking about? Well, we'll explain it all in this weeks introductory series on Forever Yang.
This week, the Yangsters talk about Qi, Blood, Fluids, Damp and Phlegm! These are all the ooies and the gooies (good stuff and bad stuff) that circulate through the body. These are the building blocks within the body.
As B explains, the qi and blood (cars) flow through meridians (highways) through the body to provide functionality and life to a person. These are similar to blood vessels but have their very own different channels that can not be seen.
Damp and phlegm, the 'gooies', bad stuff of the body are also included. How they build up and affect the body.
So join us this week, as the Yangsters go through it all!
Welcome back to the Introductory series. This week, join the Yangster's in explaining the ancient Chinese concept of Yin and Yang. The concept of dualism, describing how seemingly opposite or contrary forces may actually be complementary, interconnected, and interdependent can be applicable to the many complexities of life and branch out to be the fundamental of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine). Before I scare you any further, continue and follow us with a nice and simple way of Yin and Yang
Further notes:
Yin and Yang in Excess: shorturl.at/ABLO6
Yin and Yan in Defiency: shorturl.at/pvSW9
Welcome one, Welcome All! This is our brand new series for EVERYONE! Being brought up in Australia, we try to bridge the gap and offer all Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM for short) has to offer. No prior knowledge is required, in this series because we're looking to go over everything from square one.
If you like this series, make sure to let one of us know and we'll keep making more.
Thank you Yangsters! and we'll hear you in the next one!
Chinese Medicine has and will always have this mystical element to it. While it follows a systematic principal, a lot is still left unturned. In this episode, join Charlene and Tim to bridge the gap in this knowledge in reading and reviewing Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine by Efrem Korngold and Harriet Beinfield. In this unique blend of a western perspective of an Eastern medicine, it provides a pramatic guide to theory, therapy, and types for those curious or those looking to deepen their knowledge in theory, therapy, and types in Chinese Medicine.
This book creates and consolidates many bridges. Bridges between the mind and body, patient and practitioner, Western and eastern, and heaven and earth. Join us this week! and we'll see you in the next Du With Us!
To purchase the kindle version:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Between-Heaven-Earth-Chinese-Medicine-ebook/dp/B00F8FA6ZG
Welcome back! What goes down doesn't always stay down, that's why this week we're back on tract with Upper Gastrointestinal disorders. Have you ever experiencing vomitting, nausea, heart palpitations with your stomach or gut issues? All aboard, because this week, the yangster's continue their pursuit in uncovering all these symptoms together.
In this weeks episode, the Forever Yang crew discuss and compare psoriasis to other dermatological conditions. We chat about our favourite meals of the day and if the sun is really killing us. Sit back, listen and enjoy !
Winter is coming! A winter poem is in sight, come around and find some respite.
For those of you living in the south, long past the season of cottonmouth.
Gather round yangsters for we've got a tale, for the 4 of us will share and unveil.
How to deal with winter's cold and icy bite, we must stick together and huddle tight.
So join us on this week's pod, remember to subscribe and click download.
Dealing with Acne sucks! It affects us all (seriously, apparently at least 90% of people have experienced pimples or acne once in their life). While some might be more severe than others, it's fair to say, no one really likes it and wants it to go away. But rather than picking on acne (pun intended), maybe it's a form of your body telling you that there's something wrong. This week's episode, we cover how to treat patients or yourself who suffer from Acne from a Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective to help re-balance and find peace from pimples.
Welcome to our first episode of Du (Read) With Us!
What do you get when you put the two quietest people in the Forever Yang Podcast and put them in a voice call together? You get a spin off series!!
We announce the book on the 1st of every month (on our FB page), so that you can follow along and the episodes will come out every 15th of the month. We'll see if the book is worth your time, effort and money reading. As well as dissect the little bits of information through the book.
For our first book, we're reading The Web that has no Weaver by Ted J. Kaptchuk 2nd Edition. This book weaves the bridge between the unknowns of Chinese Medicine from a Western World, in hopes to share the knowledge and philosophy of the Chinese. Let's cross this bridge together this week on Du With us!
While Alopecia can be considered a cosmetic disorder, it can impact someone's mental and social health dramatically. This week, the yangsters, baldy address the issue of how to treat alopecia and increase hair growth in different types of hair loss such as Male Pattern baldness, Alopecia Universalis, Alopecia Totalis and Alopecia Areata. Don't pull your hair our any longer, and join us this week on Forever Yang
Here's atopic we've been itching to talk about: Eczema(Atopic Dermatitis). Sorry, I'll stop with the puns soon. This week, the yangsters discuss how to treat Atopic Dermatitis from a Western medicine and Chinese Medicine perspective. What clinical signs to look out for and how to talk to a patient suffering from it.
There's no smoke without fire, and in this episode we light the fire under having to deal with smoking. The yangsters are once again on the journey in uncovering the possibilities and ability of TCM on addiction, tackling the symptoms of smoking, and seeking help. Follow them on this breath taking adventure.
If you're after Gastrointestinal disorders, you're on the right tract! ...be careful of what social distancing can do one man's mind. Anyways, join the yangsters this week as they investigate common gastrointestinal disorders like diarrhea, stomachache, ulcerative colitis and other common GI problems.
Ding! Ding! Ding! It's one of the most anticipated fight between these two classical formulas. In one corner we have the crowd favorite Xiao Yao San, and in the other corner we have the our oldest hitter in the ring, Chai Hu Shu Gan San. Join us this week, as the Yangster discuss the difference and the importance of each formula. I want a clean fight this week. Begin!
With the birds chirping and the bee's buzzing, it's the right time for us to talking about Sexual Health. Join the Yangsters in discussing the effects of growth and development, sexual arousal (or lack of it) and understanding it from TCM perspective. Also watch a live man get hit by a (metaphorical) bus. This week's got it all the bang and explosions you could ask for.
Who else loves their immune system? Antibody? Antibody? Sorry bad joke. But do you know what's not bad for your body? This week's episode about immune systems from a TCM perspective. It's important to stay safe during these times and being cooped up at home can really put stress on your immune system. Join 3/4 of the Yangsters on the perspective of immune system from a TCM perspective.
(B sends his support for everyone to stay safe and he loves you all)
Coronavirus has become a global epidemic. It has turned the world on its axis and has affected millions of lives. While we've already previously recorded the topic, we wanted to shed more light on the current state of Covid-19... also because we now have more free time on our hands. Join the Yangsters, into a deep(er) dive on the Corona Virus.
Endometriosis can be debilitating to a woman’s life. Whether This month is Endometriosis Awareness month! Sometimes, things aren’t where they should belong, but we’re here to welcome everyone to join us this week to spread awareness and share our knowledge on how TCM views endometriosis.
Check out this website for more information about Endomarch!
https://www.endomarchaustralia.org.au/
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks… or can you? It’s often difficult to break the constant cycle of bad habits, especially when we’re not mindful of how often we do things. In this week’s episode, the Yangster attempt the impossible by telling their old habits that their habits can rest softly.
Asthma affects over a billion people world wide. Risking both the quality and well being for people. In this week's episode, we try to breath a little life into Asthma from both a Western Medicine and a TCM perspective. Unfortunately, Charlene couldn't make it to this weeks episode but don't hold your breath, because we cover acupuncture as well some differential diagnosis for Asthma.
Also our thoughts and prayers to firefighters and families around Australia affected by the bush fires during early December of 2019.
Show notes:
Asthma Protocol
https://www.nationalasthma.org.au/health-professionals/asthma-action-plans
The beginning of the Fall... and by Fall, we mean Autumn! This week's podcast, join us when we talk about preparing for Autumn and how to fight the onslaught of sickness that comes with every season change. In TCM, not only does the temperature change, but there susceptibility to your organs being affected as well. For Autumn, the lung is usually associated, which can lead to sudden bouts of sadness or grief. Don't be sad, we'll be here with you every step of the way, in this episode of preparing for Autumn
This week on Forever Yang, we discuss the symptoms and syndromes to treat Corona Virus from a TCM perspective. Corona Virus (COVID-19) is currently a global outbreak. We're hoping it shouldn't last too long ... seeing that it's made in China. Stay safe out there everyone and our thoughts and prayers for those fighting against it.
General information on symptoms and how to prevent contracting COVID:
https://www.health.gov.au/health-topics/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov
Article on current state of Corona Virus with TCM:
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1005168/china-pushes-tcm-therapy-for-coronavirus-treatment
Live count of Corona virus:
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Welcome back Yangster!
We're bringing it back in 2020! Unlike our vision, we're stepping into 2020 with new stories, advice, and TCM knowledge after our China internship. I hope you're as excited as we are to take this journey as TCM graduates. Thank you for your patience and understanding... and we'll see you in the next one!
If quiz is quizzical, what would test be? In this week, we'll uncover the secrets of exam studying (or there lack of). Here's one for you, maybe the secret to cramming is not cramming for the exam and studying through the whole semester. Just kidding, that not possible. Stress out with us in this week's podcast of exam tips and tricks!
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Ever bend over and think to yourself, 'damn I'm getting old'. Well you're not the only one. According to studies, 70-90% of people will experience some form of lower back pain in their lives. This is in Australia alone. Well you don't have to tackle it alone. Come follow us in tackling lower back pain together.
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We're chilling out again! This time the usual gang sit back, relax and chat about games, funny stories and current events in our lives. Just a quick insight into who we are and to remind us all that we too love a laugh and to get out of Chinese Medicine every now and then. Come join us for a good time and chill out with us!
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Anyone buy tickets to the tennis show? Well you don't have to when you have tennis elbow. Its all free! And comes with extra pain on the side! Join the Yangsters as they serve up an extra set of tennis elbow.
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It's alive. IT'S ALIVE! This week, we've got a live case study. Its our very own… B. He's come to the Forever Yang clinic. Join us this week in diagnosing our very first patient.
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Ugh! Thinking of what to write for this description is giving me a headache. Well good thing for me, because I can listen to this podcast and find out about all the wonderfully horrendous types of headaches I can encounter. Come join us, it won't be headache, I promise.
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Fear, Grief, Over-joy, Worry, Anger. Similar to Walt Disney’s film, Inside Out, these emotions are running around in our mind. When these emotions run rampant in us, it can often impact us both psychologically and physiologically as your emotions are intimately connected with your physical health as well. Likewise, if you’ve been affected physically, you may be more susceptible to feeling more angry, fearful, worried etc… Take a seat and sit with us, when we discuss emotions in Chinese Medicine.
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All acupuncture points are equally important, just some are more equal. This week, the Yang Gang talk about their favourite acupuncture points they like to use. The points that have made the Hall of Fame and the secret up and coming points that are not widely used (by us at least). Tune in for our favourite points that we love to use, who knows, maybe you’ll uncover some hidden gems along the way.
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Bon Voyage Du 14s! We’re heading to the motherland of TCM for 6 months. We talk about our hopes, dreams and dreads of China. We’ll be uploading once a fortnight now every Thursday. This is not a goodbye, this is a thank you. Thank you for joining us throughout all these episodes, especially in this confusing world of TCM. We’re in this journey together, and we’ll be back with more stories to come.
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What are Meridians? Simply put, meridians are an ‘energy highway’ in the human body. This allows the little cars or Qi to flow around the body. When there’s a jam or a car accident, this will usually cause problems in the body. This week’s episode, we identify the 12 meridians and discuss how acupuncture can help in restoring the little cars back through the complex highway systems.
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This weeks episode we take a break and bring in a few of our lovely friends, Bec and Tahlia, who you have already met and Jack. Tom and Nic took a break while Charlene and B chat about travelling, studies and as always interesting and random tangents over a cup of tea and a cupcake. We hope you enjoy this episode with less Chinese Medicine and get to sit back, relax and have a laugh with our fellow friends!
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‘Sing us a song, you’re the piano man’. Instead of singing about pianos, we’re singing about the organ. Zang Fu organs to be specific. This week on Forever Yang, the merry band talk about the organs, their individual functions and how they react with one another. It’s important that they all are equally balanced so they can all sing together in harmony. Come join us for this week’s episode about Zang Fu Organs
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Psych! In this weeks episode, we have special guests Bec Leahy and Tahlia Paterson come in and chat about their experience as Psychology students. We discuss how to identify anxiety and depression, what its like to study behaviour and finding curious behavioural traits in people we love and trust.
Bec and Tahlia don't have any socials but if you have any questions post them to our Facebook and they will get across.
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In This weeks episode, the rat pack is split in half. Charlene and Nic discuss an insomnia case study while the other two are out gallivanting. The subject is a 25 year old female that has had a stressful time at work before going on holidays and has been having trouble with her sleep ever since. We talk about the ins and outs of what we know and chat about what we want to find out. We talk diagnosis, suggested points and a formula that might help.
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Welcome back friends! This week we are joined by our 2nd lovely guest, Boris Lukin. We gave him the usual warm welcome here on Forever Yang… by integrating him to hand over all his golden nuggets of knowledge. Boris Lukin is an Osteopath at Beyond Fitness and a lecturer. The usual band of thieves’ interrogate Boris for his knowledge on what it takes to be a good practitioner, whether it be how to build rapport with a patient, not know how to treat a patient and even if it comes to it… firing a patient. We cover it all in this week’s episode of Forever Yang
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As Mr. Freeze once said, it's time to CHILL OUT … again. It’s time to thaw those tense shoulders and come sit with us in this chill out episode. We talk lots of nonsense but sometimes you kinda need that ‘cause sometimes life has a lot of things we stress about that is really nothing but nonsense that we don’t need to stress about.
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Pens down! Stop writing! This episode we talk about the days leading up to dreaded exams day. But it doesn’t have to be as stressful as you think it is. We cover different tips that we found useful… or tips that we have tried that aren’t useful in our pursuit for the old Chinese saying ‘P’s Get Degrees’.
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Ding! Ding! Ding! Are you ready to rumble with part 2 of TCM’s ‘secret’ not-so-secret modalities. In this episode, the wrestlers will be talking about Ear and scalp acupuncture. This will include the commonly seen NADA protocols to treat addiction as well take home ear pellet strategies… and something about egypt. Come join in this episode of Modalities Pt 2.
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In this weeks episode the Forever Yang crew discuss all things common colds. We talk about the four main syndromes you would see, acupuncture to consider, formulas and take home tips and tricks we love to use. We play a quick game of the Price is Right and we find out where pears really come from. Just another informative but fun episode of the Forever Yang Podcast.
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TCM is more than just acupuncture and herbs. There are many hidden techniques and secret ways to treat people. In this episode, we'll go over the ‘not so hidden’ techniques that we use. Today we'll cover the use of electro-acupuncture, moxibustion, and cupping. This will be a part 1 series of modalities.
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Stress isn’t something we can avoid. It wears on you for every aspect of your life, physically and mentally. Whether it’s acute stress or chronic stress that you must deal with, what’s important is trying to deal with it in with the right mind set. The stress-heads of Forever Yang talk about how they cope with their stress as students and give advice from a TCM point of view of how stress works in the body.
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Quiescence is the state of when a cell is resting and at peace. We certainly felt at ease in this week’s episode. We’re joined by the beautiful and passionate, Annalise Drok, our very first guest! Annalise has focused on developing her knowledge and understanding of women’s health and fertility. She’s been awarded a Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Chinese Medicine and a Bachelor of Consumer and Applied Sciences in Human Nutrition. Her calm and patient nature was well demonstrated as the three co-hosts (Nic, Charlene, and Tim/Tom) tried to pick her brains for life after a student.
You can catch her at: Instagram: quiescencechinesemed FaceBook: Quiescence Chinese Medicine
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The lands are harsh, and the nights are cold. You can hear the bellowing winds and the sight of a lone tumbleweed tip toes it's away across the earth. Today’s podcast, the renegades of Forever Yang enter this duel with their cow boy boots and their pistols on their hip. It’s time to get into the nitty gritty of the good, the bad and the ugly of TCM in the wild west.
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It can be your best friend or your worst nightmare (pun intended). Sleep! It’s something we all need, but sometimes don’t give enough credit for. Sleep is how you start and end the day so it's important to get it right. The sleepers (or lack thereof) of Forever Yang give their best take on tips on how to get the best night’s sleep.
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This episode is a fun little case on Jane Doe. Poor Jane has been suffering from Irregular bowels for 5 years. Narrated by the wonderful Charlene, the other 3 band together, to use the art of deduction and work through the case and how to help treat Jane. They cover differential diagnosis, acupuncture points as well as herbal formulas that would be used in this case.
The Case:
Jane Doe, Female, 43
Main complaint – Irregular Bowels for 5 years
Jane is an office worker and tends to be an over thinker. She has frequent bowel movements and can occur up to 8 times a day. She feels incomplete after the first few times and requires to go more frequently. The first movement is usually bigger with a loose consistency and urge but have no smell. There is no pain associated with the bowels. She feels easily bloated and can occur spontaneously.
She feels lethargic and feels cranky and tired, especially in the afternoon after work. Her head feels ‘congested’ and ‘foggy’. Poor jane also gets dull frontal headaches when she’s tired. She also feels thirsty throughout the day (despite drinking water). There aren’t any problems with her sleep or urination.
Pulse: Thready especially in the guan position
Tongue: Pale with enlarged edges and watery coat
If you guys like this sort of case study, let us know and we’ll do some more in the future 😊
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You are now entering a Chill out podcast. Please leave your stress at the door. Harder said than done sometimes. In this episode we hang out and talk about our lives and all the trivialities that come with them. Just letting loose and having some fun. Come join us!
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This week’s episode is about our first time in student clinic! (Thanks to Brett for the idea) There’s a first time for everyone, and we discuss our first time in clinic! The transition from being observers to co-treaters to primary treaters is a pretty daunting experience. The crew talk about their way of transitioning through the different stages and their own stories and experiences in the student clinic.
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Food, Food, Food! The hungry hungry hippos in this episode talk about the different diets such as intermittent fasting, Ketogenic Diet, Vegetarianism, military diet, and FODMAPS and how these diets affect the body in a TCM perspective. Tim/Tom shares his experience with Keto and I.F and his lack of knowledge about potatoes being high G.I (good one Tom!). They further their discussion by talking about what the ‘recommended’ diet in TCM should be.
Military Diet (Three Day Diet) - Have a strict low calorie intake for 3 days followed by 4 days less restricted but encouraged to eat less. Rinse and repeat.
Food As Medicine - Book
Charlenes Blood Tonic Tea
-Herbal Tea Base
-Goji Berries
-Da Zao
- Longan
-Bai Shao
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In this episode, the Yangsters talk about tongue and pulse. As one of the fundamentals in TCM diagnosis, the tongue and pulse provide the practitioner with a clear insight into how the body is functioning. The 3 main aspects for tongue diagnosis are the coating, colour and shape. Whilst the main aspects for the pulse are the rate, strength and width.
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In this episode, the rag tag team talk about the routine 10 questions that are commonly used when diagnosing patients. These are the Chinese Medicine practitioner way of the popular game of “21 Questions”. But instead of trying to get in someone’s pants, we go into the nitty gritty details of the reasons why we’re more curious on what comes out. We discuss the true importance of why it's so important to ask these questions for patients.
Ten Questions
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Fever and Chills
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Sweating
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Pain
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Ears
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Eyes
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Bowel Motions and Urinations
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Appetite and Diet
-Thirst
-Energy
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Sleep
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Gynaecological related questions
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This episode, the usual suspects – Brendan, Charlene, Nic and Tim/Tom talk about the concept of Yin and Yang and its relevance as a philosophy and treatment principle. While against contrary belief to Yin = bad and Yang = good, they try their best to explain the concepts while providing their experiences of how it is used in their clinical practice.
Tooth From a Tigers Mouth - Tom Bisio
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The first episode of Forever Yang with your co-hosts, Brendan, Charlene, Nic and Tim/Tom talk about their experiences with Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). While all being 100% Aussie made. Each host talks about their own personal experiences with TCM. With perspectives from Brendan’s Vietnamese background, Charlene’s Hong Kong backgrounds, Nic’s very Australian only background, and Tim/Tom’s Malaysian background; it all adds to a very wholesome experience between the group.
Auricular Acupuncture PTSD Protocol:
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A quick get to know us episode. Our first try at recording so please keep that in mind when listening to the audio. It's not the best quality.
We are four Chinese Medicine students from Melbourne Australia that want to discuss our experiences with Chinese Medicine and explore our own questions in an open conversation!
If you ever have any questions regarding our topics or want to hear more about something please let us know! If there is a topic that you want us to discuss we are always open to fresh new ideas!
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