Working with Cancer Patients with Classical East Asian Medicine

COURSE DETAILS

14 Hour Course Beginning on October 2

This course presents a classical East Asian medical approach to working with cancer patients, grounded in physiology rather than disease naming.

Rather than treating “cancer” as a singular entity, we explore how illness arises from the breakdown of the body’s fundamental movements, opening, descending, pivoting, storing, and transforming. Particular emphasis is placed on the role of Yang as the motive force of life, and how its constraint, collapse, or misdirection leads to the formation of masses, accumulation, and systemic decline.

Students will learn to recognize cancer as a process involving failure of movement, transformation of fluids, and loss of proper containment, often rooted in shàoyáng pivot dysfunction and progressing into the tàiyīn, shàoyīn, and juéyīn conformations in advanced disease.

The course draws on the clinical and theoretical foundations of Zhāng Zhòngjǐng and the Shāng Hán Zá Bìng Lùn, applying these principles to the understanding and treatment of modern chronic illness.

Throughout, Sharon draws on extensive clinical experience, presenting detailed case studies that illustrate these principles in real time and demonstrate how classical theory translates into treatment decisions across the course of illness.

Through classical theory, clinical reasoning, and case-based learning, this course offers a clear framework for supporting patients through all stages of illness, including during and after biomedical treatments. The focus remains on restoring physiological function, warming Yang, moving blood, transforming dampness, and reestablishing the body’s capacity for regulation.

Dates and Times

All classes held Fridays from 10 – 11:30am EST

• October 2 ,16 and 30
• November 6 and 20
• December 11 and 18
• January 8

GMP

Any student registered in the White Pine Graduate Mentorship Program is automatically enrolled in this course at no additional cost. For these students, who are engaged in a comprehensive study of classical East Asian physiology, diagnosis, herbs, and formulas, the course provides an introduction to the clinical application of these principles. For those enrolling in the cancer course independently, tuition may be applied in full toward the Graduate Mentorship Program.

^{12 credits NCCAOM (Pending for Course, Provider #287)
This course has been approved by the California Acupuncture Board, Provider Number 679, for 12 hours of continuing education}

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Sharon Weizenbaum graduated from the New England School of Acupuncture in 1983. She has studied many times in China with a focus on gynecology, obstetrics and, in the last 15 years, Classic Formulas. Sharon teaches internationally, publishes articles, translates much of her own course material and is the director of the clinic White Pine Healing Arts and the primary instructor of the White Pine Graduate Mentorship Program.