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We can distinguish two main trends:

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The traditional way

 

The traditional path (in lowercase) refers to Taoist cosmology, applied to human energy. It is a total therapy of lifestyle hygiene that intervenes and precedes the disease to prevent it from appearing. The effectiveness of the assessment lies in the pulse taking which requires humility and subtlety. There is also the placement of the needles, their inclinations, the patient's breathing, etc. that is to say, all in a set of know-how and interpersonal skills that depend as much on the knowledge received as on the way in which the therapist integrates the teaching into a humanist and responsible attitude.

 

The symptomatic approach

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​And then there is a form of care that consists of puncturing only the painful areas or in the form of point recipes, without taking into account the pulse or the person's experience. This is a so-called symptomatic approach that focuses only on the visible manifestations of the disease, without truly searching for the root cause. This way of practicing is recent and facilitates assembly-line treatments. It was desired by Mao Zedong in order to compete with Western medicine in its field of specializations. This is the 1958 model on which most academics base their comparative studies and train acupuncturist doctors.

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Finding out if the therapist you are going to confide in is reliable is the least you can do. In the field of true Traditional Medicine, direct transmission (originally oral, then more structured) is essential: it is this which, from master to student, has allowed TCM to cross the ages and the plains, to survive the multiple upheavals which have affected its own places of development.

It is the existence of transmission that gives full meaning to my work. I myself am a link in this chain.

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Everyone must act according to their talent. Mine is to listen and help you make connections.

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The best guarantees of genuine practice

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For this reason, the people who inspired me, trained me and who continue to guide me are the best guarantees of a true, effective and respectful practice.

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So I find myself on the shoulders of the transmitters of the Great Tradition:

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• from Huang Di to George Soulié-de-Morant who transcribed and codified TCM;

• René Guenon, Carl Gustav Jung and Claude Larre for their eminent works in transcribing primary sources and making intelligible knowledge that was fading over time, through translations and reifications;

• André Faubert and Jacques-André Lavier who structured a practical pedagogy that was coherent, uncompromising and understandable by French speakers;

• Truong Thin (Vietnam) and Daniel Laurent who were able to combine the vitality of what was already there in the allegory of the Tree of Life, in order to train generations of caregivers in skill, relevance and excellence.

• He Puren & Fils (China) and Michaël Smith (USA) who have notably implemented protocols which respect the major holistic principles while allowing a distinct practice, outside the office.

• Santa Ratna Shakya (Nepal) who was able to expand my horizons and provide me with resounding therapeutic tools.

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I stand on the shoulders of these giants – in the words of Bernard of Chartres – to see further; to keep alive the fire from before my birth; to maintain the vitality of ancestral knowledge in the service of my contemporaries; to prevent ignorance from covering up the innumerable and precious wisdoms with oblivion; to reinvent in ever new forms the supports that we may need today.

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