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Treating Lyme with Chinese Medicine: From Tick Bite Through Late-Stage Neurological Lyme
Saturday, May 21, 2022, 10:00 AM to Sunday, May 22, 2022, 6:00 PM EDT
Category: FSOMA CEU Event

Treating Lyme with Chinese Medicine: From Tick Bite Through Late-Stage Neurological Lyme

14 FL CEU's & PDA's (pending

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Attend virtually or in-person at the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in Gainesville, FL

Free Book for In-person attendees: 

The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis, Healing Personal, Cultural, and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine

 

Registration: $350  |  FSOMA Members: $280  |  FSOMA Student Members: $125

 

A crucial understanding in treating Lyme Disease is that there are multiple stages to the condition. Using the Chinese Medicine disease progression theory Bian Hua (To Change and Transform), we will explore how one set of conditions leads to others and how understanding the progression of Lyme is essential to not only treating symptoms but also preventing the condition.

Gaining an understanding of the School of Heat approach to illness will add to your toolbox in treating much more than Lyme. 

We’ll discuss the importance of The School of Heat (Wen Bing) theory in treating the inflammation introduced by a tick bite. We’ll also discuss how the Wai Ke (Neurological) Tradition can be used to both treat the symptoms and underlying cause of late stage neurological Lyme, including tremors, seizures and migraines.

Brendan Kelly L.Ac, M.Ac will present several case studies from the several hundred Lyme patients he’s worked with to discuss his experiences using acupuncture, Chinese and western  herbs, diet and lifestyle to treat the condition from initial tick bite through late stages. Finally, Brendan will discuss the direct connection between climate change and the inflammation of Lyme.

What to expect:

• Participants will have an understanding of the Bian Hua disease progression theory and its relevance to understanding and treating Lyme disease with acupuncture, herbs and diet lifestyle suggestions.

• Participants with have an understanding of the four stages of the Wen Bing/School of heat  and its relevance to understanding and treating Lyme disease with acupuncture, herbs,  diet and lifestyle suggestions. 

• Participants with have an understanding of the Wai Ke/ Neurology traditions and its relevance to understanding and treating Lyme disease with acupuncture, herbs, diet and lifestyle suggestions.

• Participants with have an understanding of the interconnection of Bian Hua, Wen Bing and Wai Ke in the treatment of Lyme

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Brendan Kelly - Understanding Lyme Disease with Chinese Medicine

Brendan KellyBrendan is an herbalist of 26 years with training in eastern and western healing traditions and has been practicing Chinese medicine full-time for 17 years. He has been a western herbal business owner and consultant to natural product companies and western medical practitioners. He is on the faculty at AFEA in Florida and has been an adjunct professor at Johnson State College/ Northern Vermont University in VT and Daoist Tradition in NC. He is also the past president of the Vermont Acupuncture Association (VTAA).

In addition to working with people with a wide range of physical, mental and emotional conditions, Brendan also has extensive experience treating all stages of Lyme, from initial tick bite through late state neurological symptoms. He has treated several hundred patients with Lyme to date with consistently very good results.

He teaches about various aspects of Chinese medicine and western herbal medicine at schools, universities, educational centers and conferences around the US and Europe. He writes and teaches about the connection between personal, societal and environmental well-being, including the connection between climate change and Chinese medical thought and diagnosis. North Atlantic Books published his first book The Yin and Yang of Climate Crisis: Healing Personal, Cultural and Ecological Imbalance with Chinese Medicine, which uses the lens of Chinese medicine to look at the underlying causes of our warming planet.

Brendan is a long-time student and practitioner of Tai Chi Ch’uan, having studied with Wolfe Lowenthal weekly for 10 years. He was authorized to teach by Wolfe, who was a senior student of Cheng Man Ch’ing, the creator of the Yang style short form. He was the founder and primary instructor of an outdoor based western herbal school in Southern Vermont and teaches about harvesting and using wild plants for food and medicine, and herbal medicine preparation in a wide variety of settings. For the past 17 years he has worked clinically integrating the potency of local, western medicinal plants with the depth of the Chinese diagnostic tradition.