Over-sharpen the blade, and the edge will soon be blunt

Lao Tsu: No 9, Tao Te Ching 

There has been a seismic shift in both attitudes to and the understanding of acupuncture in mainstream healthcare. Advances in neural anatomy at last provide an explanation of the clinical basis of how acupuncture works. While these advances happily endorse the practice of acupuncture as part of regular healthcare, as a consequence, is there a risk of losing the essence and cultural integrity of Chinese Medicine? How do we promote the more traditional aspects of this ancient medical system that makes it possible to maintain good health against the ever-increasing forces of health politics, big pharma and profit?

In tackling this question, we’ll first consider the extraordinary results in the treatment of Peripheral Neuropathy with acupuncture, and then reflect upon how the traditional Chinese Medicine notion of disease causation can provide valuable insight into staying well and preventing illness. As an example, we’ll try and make some sense of a disease that cost us all – Covid.

About the speaker:

Charmian Wylde MA, MBAcC is a practising acupuncturist with almost 40 years of experience. During the Covid pandemic, acupuncture in the UK received ‘critical health care status’ and since that point, the demand for acupuncture has been enormous, outstripping what we can provide. Charmain has been embraced by the UK university system where she wrote and led a BSc in Acupuncture for over a decade, before being whisked out of it, once acupuncture with the status of a university degree posed a challenge to certain quarters of the scientific establishment.  Charmain has a good sense of humour and is a singing jazz pianist.

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