Dr. Young 2006-2011 Events

2006-11 Events

2011 Lectures and Seminars

January 8-9: Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM)
"Commonly Used Tung's Acupuncture Points for the Treatment of Pain"
January 16: TCM Association of San Diego
"Most Frequently Used Tung’s Acupuncture Points"
February: Launching new book publishing, no plans for lectures or workshops.
March 4-5: Southwest Symposium in Austin, Texas (www.aoma.edu/southwest-symposium)
"The Advanced Theories and Applications of Five-Shu Points"
April 2-4: Ph.D. program at Five Branches University in San Jose, California (www.fivebranches.edu)
"Commonly Used Points of Tung’s Acupuncture System"
April 30-May 1: Organized by Eastern Currents (www.easterncurrents.ca) Vancouver, BC
"Master Tung’s Most Useful Points and the Treatment of Common and Difficult Diseases"
June 10-13 Best Western Executive Inn at Los Angeles, California
"The Complete Tung's Acupuncture System (Foundation Course)"
August 13-15 Best Western Inn at Los Angeles, California
"The Application for the Commonly used Herbal Formulas in Shang Han Lun" (in Mandarin Only)
September 23-25 The Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine at Spital Zollikerberg in Zurich, Switzerland
"The One-Needle Therapy for Pain Management and Other Common Illness"
Novermber 11-14 Best Western Executive Inn at Los Angeles, California
"The One-Needle Therapy"

2010 Lectures and Seminars

October 8-11: Los Angeles, California
Advanced Tung’s Acupuncture Seminar
June 11-14: Los Angeles, California
Complete Tung's Acupuncture Courses
July 3-5: Five Branches University
"Jin Gui (or Golden Chamber)" [Mandarin]
September 15-17: Zurich, Switzerland.
The Academy for Traditional Chinese Medicine at Spital Zollikerberg
"Tung’s Acupuncture" [Mandarin w/German translation]
October 8-11: Los Angeles, California
"Advanced Workshop of Tung's Acupuncture"
February 27-28: Academy of Oriental Medicine at Austin
"Tung’s Acupuncture"
April 3-4: New York College of Traditional Chinese Medicine
"Dr. Tung's Acupuncture"
May 9-11: Ji Nan, China
"The Complete Courses of Tung's Acupuncture"

2009 Lectures and Seminars

July 2009: Lecture at the Doctoral program of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) at Five Branches Institute (www.fivvebranches.edu )in San Jose
August2009: Lecture at the Doctoral program of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) at America College of Traditional Medicine in San Francisco
September 2009: Lecture at Minnesota
February 2009: Lecture at the Doctoral program of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR.
April 2009: Lecture at the Arizona Society of Oriental Medicine and Acupuncture (AzSOMA)  Post-Seminar Highlights Young Wei-Chieh One Needle Therapy and Palm Diagnosis Seminar ended Successfully and Satisfactorily The absolutely exclusive “One Needle Therapy and Palm Diagnosis Seminar” featured with distinguishing characteristics of Young Wei-Chieh was held on Sep. 4 to 7, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. Because the class was fully registered after the first round notice, many of the interested participants were unable to attend the seminar. The four-day seminar content was very abundant and fulfilling. Dr. Young took his distinguishing featured “time and space concepts of the acupoints and channels” as fundamental base and the five elements as the practical application; he expounded the refined and practical way of point selection: one needle therapy. He also introduced the palm diagnosis which he has been applying to the clinical practice for almost forty years and is with very high accuracy. The fingers, palm lines and eight trigrams etc. were all fully addressed. Every participant was fascinated. Although they were exhausted from the four-day classes, they were also very excited about those practical and rarely-touched topics.  This course was the summarization from Dr. Young Wei-chieh’s 40 years of clinical experience which included several hundred thousand visits, and the insights from his reading more than tens of thousands of books. The main subjects included in the course were pain management, internal, gynecological and five-sense-organ diseases. Dermatological, external and pediatric diseases were also mentioned. An average of five or above one-needle points for nearly one hundred diseases was discussed. This allowed the participants to select the points alternatively and ingeniously. Dr. Young not only supplemented information on the Tung’s extraordinary points, but also elucidated on the fourteen-channel points ultimately. Dr. Young’s incisively and vividly description on the fourteen-channels proved that his strength on the fourteen channel was better than that of the extraordinary points. No wonder he was able to write the most popular acupuncture book in the twentieth century. As the proverb says “listening to your words today is better than me studying more than ten years”, many participants expressed that the four-day course helped them improve and gain more than ten-year strength. Some participants with many years of practice even talked straight that they finally learned the real acupuncture. The four-day course was full of sparkling. When it finally came to an end, the participants returned enthusiastic applauds and went forward to Dr. Young to show their gratitude.
The participants of this course also came from around the world. Some even had been practicing for several decades. Dr. Erk (MD, LAc) from Turkey said “When I studied in the medical school, our teacher showed us a beautiful necklace but did not give it to us. Dr. Young also showed us a precious necklace. He not only let us see it, but also gave it to us. I am so grateful that Dr. Young taught us the best without holding back.” Dr. Chen from Toronto said “Teacher, we are extremely happy to learn from you…”Dr. Piao from Palm Springs said “Dr. Young’s course is getting more refined. It covered the profound theories and practical applications as well. But the most important is that it is also friendly and easy to master. This is the highest state.” Dr. Fang from California said “Thank you for letting me experience such a touching seminar….”There was much other feedback expressing gratitude and satisfaction. Knowing everyone harvested abundantly from this seminar, Dr. Young felt very encouraged. He spurred himself that he would continue to research and study, teach and write to help everyone grow.
Complete Course of Tung’s Acupuncture (6/5-6/8) ended successfully!  Thank attendees for traveling a long way to participate.
The Complete Course of Tung’s Acupuncture, sponsored by the World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture, lectured by Master Tung’s brilliant student, his direct disciple Dr. Wei-Chieh Young, was held on June 5 to June 8 in Los Angeles. Because of the great enthusiasm to this course, Dr. Young’s office received more than fifty registrations shortly after registration started. To control the quality of the class, they had to limit the class size and stop taking registration one month before the course started. Like prior Complete Courses, this time the attendees also came from around the whole world. Some of them were from the US (New York, Chicago, Boston, Texas, Florida, Middle West), Canada (six attendees were from Toronto). There were others traveling a long distance from Italy, Ireland, Swiss land, Austria, Hong Kong, Bermuda, Australia, etc. A few of them had been teaching acupuncture and Chinese medicine in college for many years.
Lecture on “One Needle Therapy” will be given for the first time in Autumn 2009. Please check our website for more information by then.
Lectures given in 2008 Thanks to every one’s support and traveling a long distance to learn together. We are grateful that all of our seminars were successful and took a leap forward. Let us cherish every learning opportunity in our life and continue to work hard to reach higher level.
The World’s First Advanced Tung’s Acupuncture Seminar Ended Successfully and Satisfactorily.The world’s first Advanced Tung’s Acupuncture Seminar sponsored by The World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture and lectured by Dr. Young, Wei-Chieh was held on Oct. 10 to 13, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Most participants were from the U.S. and Canada, and some even traveled all the way from Europe. Every seminar attendant has been practicing for years. To prepare for this world’s first Advanced Tung’s Acupuncture Seminar, Dr. Young wrote and edited lecture notes containing about a hundred thousand characters (in Chinese), which if compiled with the impromptu elaborations a new book could be rendered. Different from all previous seminars which used published books as main lecture materials, and to meet the requirements of this whole new course, a brand new handouts “Tung’s Acupuncture: the Advanced Class” edited from the lecture notes and translated into English was issued to the classmates. Besides, some lecture contents were taken from the newly published book, Lectures On Tung’s Acupuncture: Therapeutic System.

The course covered the scopes of the epistemology, ontology, and methodology; and deeply studied on the origins, history, development, elucidations, and applications of Tung’s acupuncture. The course contents involved Yi Jing (The Classic of Yi), Jia Yi Jing (The Systematic Classic of Acupuncture and Moxibustion), Nei Jing (Internal Cannon), and Nan Jing (The Classic of Difficulties). Tung’s Acupuncture was deduced, induced, analyzed, and synthesized by the perspectives on holisms, time and space. The relationships between Tai Ji, Gan Zhi (heavenly stems and earthly branches), San Cai (three treasures), Wu Xing (five phases), Ba Gua (eight trigrams), and Tung’s acupuncture and their applications were elaborated in details. The practical and advanced Dao Ma (coupling), Qian Yin (guiding) and Qian Kun (heaven and earth) needling methods were made public. Long-term collected clinical cases and experiences of Tung’s extraordinary points were summarized and analyzed. Dr. Young also shared his way of thinking and the process on how to expand the applications of Tung’s extraordinary points. With the handouts and video clips, the theories, techniques, and cautions of the bloodletting method were introduced in details. With his ingenious and sharp technique, Dr. Young demonstrated bloodletting on participants’ Taiyang, ear-apex, posterior neck, elbow crease, Weizhong, back region, calf, foot, finger, Zhiwu, etc. The extensive and practical bloodletting demonstration helped the participants gain deeper understanding and recognition on the importance and miraculous effect of bloodletting and sharpen the skills of bloodletting. Dr. Young also lectured the Tung’s palm diagnosis combined with Young’s palm diagnosis which was researched and developed and has been used by Dr. Young for many years. Every attendant listened to the classes with great gusto and zest and was very excited. The course ended with the exclamations and excitements of joys.
The class atmosphere of the four-day course was very enthusiastic and friendly. During the classes, the attendants raised up various questions related to the course content. The interactions between the teacher and the students were very smooth and pleasurable. Many attendants expressed that this course was not merely advanced, but superb advanced. Dr. Wang, Chuan-Min, also a direct disciple of Master Tung’s　but junior than Dr. Young, who came to the seminar to show his support and encouragement also expressed that the course materials were very abundant and profound and could be divided to advanced part one and two. Dr. Young also invited Dr. Wang to give a special topic lecture on the subject of “The Introduction to Master Tung’s Experience” at the second night.
When the seminar came to the ending, the attendants applauded for a long time. They also went to Dr. Young to express their gratitude to him for giving this fantastic lecture without holding back and with earnest efforts. They truly appreciated it that Dr. Young made public of this course. They expected to come to learn again together in the near future. All participants took pictures together and were reluctant to say goodbye.
The Complete Course of Tung's Acupuncture in August 2008 Ended Satisfactorily   The third Complete Course of Tung’s Acupuncture sponsored by the World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture was held on August 8 to 11, 2008 in Los Angeles, California. Like the last two seminars, most attendants were from America and Canada. Some attendants traveled all the way with long-distance flights, such as those from Turkey, Hong Kong, and Singapore, etc. Most attendants have practiced for many years. The course, like the previous two ones, was instructed by Dr. Young Wei-chieh. Dr. Young first introduced the overall principles and theories of the Tung’s extraordinary points. He then lectured every point on the locations, functions, indications, and the theories behind them. Every point was explained with color photos. This seminar also supplemented with needling video clips to further explain those commonly used points. Hence, every one was able to master the point locations and indications, and the needling techniques within a short time. Those extra clips saved plenty of learning time and hence the classes could focus more on the point principles and theories and treatments. Although the attendants rose up quite a few questions, the classes were finished as scheduled and there was enough time for discussions too. All the attendants expressed that they harvested abundantly. During the four days, the class atmosphere was enthusiastic and harmonious. After the seminar, everyone stayed and took photos together to save the wonderful memory and was reluctant to leave. Although more than thirty attendants needed to travel with flights, they planed to join and signed up the advanced courses to-be-held in autumn in Los Angeles. Overall, this again was a successful seminar.
The Complete Courses of Tung’s Acupuncture, April - May, 2008, ended satisfactorily
The Complete Course of Tung’s Acupuncture, sponsored by the World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture, was held on 4/12, 4/13,5/10,and 5/11 in Los Angeles.
This was the second time Dr. Young lectured such a course in Los Angeles (Chinese-English bilingual class) for American acupuncturists. It was the first time Dr. Young offered a class after the publication of his English version book, “Lectures on Tung’s Acupuncture: Points Study”. Most attendants came from the US and Canada, including nearly 20 from eastern states. In particular, there were several acupuncturists traveled all the way from Europe and Australia for the class.
Although the course focused mainly on introducing and locating points, it also covered the applications and principles of the points in details. Since many attendants were already familiar with Dr. Young’s book “Lectures on Tung’s Acupuncture: Points Study” (some even have been studying Tung’s acupuncture for 20 years), the contents of the course was modified to not follow the book. Instead, Dr. Young added a lot of supplemental materials to cover the principles and theories. The level and contents of this course was more advanced and abundant comparing to the previous one. In fact, there were three times more questions asked than in the previous class. Dr. Young had to prolong the class to finish prepared materials.
At the end of the class, most of the attendants signed up right away for the advanced course to be held in October. Very limited seats are remaining now although it has not yet officially opened for registration. Many attendants stayed and continued to discuss with Dr. Young after the course ended. The attendants expressed that this class helped them a lot and were eager to apply what they learned in their practice.

2007 Events

On October 14, 2007, Dr. Wei-Chieh Young was invited to give a one-day lecture on “Commonly used Tung’s Acupuncture points” in Phoenix, AZ. While having lunch with the president of Arizona acupuncture board and other Chinese medical doctors, the topic of “medical insurance issues” was discussed.
The lecture was given in Chinese because Arizona State only has 30 + Chinese acupuncturists, and 20 + practitioners were present at the lecture. After the demonstration of Tung’s Acupuncture technique, the practitioners thought this was the most practical lecture they have attended.
From mid-August to September 2007, went to central Asia -Kyrgystan for volunteer clinic treatments for the locals. Daily patients load were about 60 with great results. Former Soviet students of Dr.Young were there to assist in translating Russian and to help stimulating and removing needles. After a hard day of clinic work, Dr. Young also gave lectures to the local practitioners on Tung’s Acupuncture so they can continue to help patients in the future.
On the returning journey back home, Dr. Young had a chance to do some sightseeing in Wu Lu Mu Qi and Tu Lu Fan. The beauty of Xin Jiang and the prosperity of Wu Lu Mu Qi had left a deep impression with Dr. Young.
July 14 to 16, 2007 (Friday, Saturday & Sunday), Dr. Young was invited to give a 3-day lecture series at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, Portland, OR. The class was limited to the students in the Doctorate program of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine.
The lectures including: Chinese medicine and acupuncture treatments for geriatric illnesses, commonly used Tung’s Acupuncture points; and Dr. Young’s special clinical experiences with the Five-Shu points. There was a demonstration treatment for a patient during the class. The lectures were welcomed by the students and they thought the lectures were wonderful.
Mid-May 2007, Dr. Young went to Mainland China for medical exchange tour.
May 27, 2007, Dr. Young was invited to give a lecture to the members of Southern Chinese Medical Association in Los Angeles. The topics including: Kidney infection, urinary tract infection, kidney stones, nocturnal emission, and uremia, etc. Dr. Young has a lot of clinical case studies, and he introduced his clinical experiences with acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to the class.
Feb 4th and 5th , 2007 (Sunday and Monday), Dr. Wei-Chieh Young was invited by the Doctorate program of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (DAOM) of Five Branches Institute in San Jose to deliver a seminar called “Tung’s Acupuncture Points On Pain Management”. Upon opening to the public, the seminar booked quickly and filled up 10 days before it was scheduled to begin. Several loyal practitioners follow Dr. Young wherever he speaks. The seminar opened with an overview of Tung’s Pain Management. This encompassed the etiology and the principle of the Pain Syndrome including the differentiation patterns such as: (1) Bu Tong Ze Tong (blockage causing pain) (2) Bu Rong Ze Tong (deficiency causing pain) (3) Bu Song Ze Tong (tension causing pain). Regarding the therapy and point selection, Dr. Young emphasized the chronological view of the pain (acute or chronic) and the dimensional view of the pain (the pain location and point selection). In this seminar, he highlighted the clinical application of the Five Shu Point, Microsystem Correspondences (body correspondences and holographic correspondence) and Zhang Fu Bei Tong (Zhang Fu extra relationship). Most of the practitioners found this new information exciting and practical for their clinical use. In the specific pain syndrome, Dr. Young explained in great detail about Tung’s point selection and its theory and made a comparison with the effective points of the 14 channels. Therefore, the practitioners can efficiently grasp the most effective treatment points, not only from Tung’s system but also from the 14 channels, when treating pain syndromes. On the afternoon of the second day of seminar, the school arranged for 6 patients to demonstrate Dr. Young’s treatment techniques. Dr. Young was able to discuss the patient’s chief complains by using his unique palm diagnosis without questioning the patient. All the practitioners in the class were amazed. They made a request to the school to invite Dr. Young to teach palm diagnosis next time. During the demonstration, Dr. Young applied the bleeding techniques on 4 different patients by bleeding Erjian (the apex of the auricle) , Taiyang, Wuling (DT.04) and UB40 to let the practitioners have some ideas about the bleeding techniques’ application. When the seminar ended, all of the practitioners rose to give a big round of applause to Dr. Young to show their gratitude on the very rewarding lecture.

2006 Events

Past seminars on Tung's Acupuncture   "Complete Courses of Tung's Acupuncture" (Theories, Points, Manipulations, and Therapeutics) in November and December 2006. On November, 11th and 12th and December, 9th and 10th, 2006, the World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture held the “Complete Courses of Tung’s Acupuncture” Seminar in Los Angeles. It completed in four days. Master Tung’s most famous disciple, Dr. Young, Wei Chieh, Ph.D, delivered the seminar. This was Dr. Young’s first world-class seminar about “Complete Courses of Tung’s Acupuncture” for English Speaking acupuncturists in Los Angeles. Dr. Young’s content has a high standard like the teaching credential course- very completed and detailed. He formulated the seminar after publishing his latest Chinese edition of “Tung’s Acupuncture Points” (interpreted in English in seminar) and the English edition of “Illustrated Tung’s Acupuncture Points”. Dr. Young condenses his forty years of experience with Tung’s acupuncture. He focuses on Tung’s acupuncture’s location, indication and expansion. His initial introduction is a deep exposition about Tung’s acupuncture point theories. The highlight of the event was that Dr. Young supplemented this ancient wisdom with his knowledge of Chinese medicine and I-Ching theories. From a therapeutic aspect, he shared many effective experiential points and formulas that were not recorded in “Tung’s Acupuncture Points”. To give as much as information in the time allocated, the numbers of recesses have been reduced for the students. When the course ended, the students expressed great jubilation! The comments circling the room were positive words like “perfect and amazing”. The World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture invited all attending students for two Saturday’s free dinners. These events would give students the opportunities to communicate with each other and exchange their learning experiences. Most of the students were from other states and other countries. Dr. Young’s colleague (Master Tung’s lineage), Dr. Chuan-Min Wang, came from Chicago to attend the course as well as Dr. Young’s 20 years student, Susan Johnson. The students who completed the entire course would receive 30 continuing educational units. Upon completion of the final review questions, the students were given refined graduated certificates. Most of the students expressed interest in attending more classes. Many said that they did not care how many miles they will have to fly in order to attend Dr. Young’s seminar. After returning home, many acupuncturists wrote letters with intense emotion to express their gratitude. The seminar was extremely useful in their clinical practice. This success influenced The World Association of Tung’s Acupuncture to have a seminar next year about “Tung’s Acupuncture-Therapy” to describe Tung’s therapeutic principles. So the future classes will teach the students in great detail how to select the therapeutic points for the patients. Furthermore, Dr. Young would like to explain his and his teacher Tung’s special clinical experiences using 14 channels in real case studies. In addition, Dr. Young would like to introduce their unique “Palm Assessment” techniques to the public. For more information, check out Dr. Young’s website..(Back to Page Top) 
On Oct. 22 and 23, 2006 Dr. Wei-Chieh Young was invited by American Association of Oriental Medicine to give a seminar on the topic of “The Dao of Tung’s Acupuncture” at the 2006 International Conference & Exposition held in Phoenix city, Arizona. The two-day seminar was from eight to twelve in the morning and one thirty to five thirty in the afternoon for both days. The seminar on 10/22 was in Chinese and 10/23 in English. Since most of the participants had some knowledge of Tung’s acupuncture, the seminar was focused on intermediate to advanced level, but which only minimum Yi-Jing theory was referred (advanced level will cover more). The contents included epistemology, ontology, and methodology, and which intersecting with the philosophy of time, space and wholeness of the theory of Tien Ren He Yi (theory that man is integral part of nature.) Dr. Young first introduced the uniqueness of Tung’s acupuncture, the nomenclatural principles, and the relationship between it and the Fourteen Channels. Next, Dr. Young stated and analyzed the theory and application techniques of Tung’s acupuncture such as Quan Xi (Microsystem), Dui Ying (Correspondences), Ti Ying (Body Correspondences), and Zhang Fu Bei Tong (Zang Fu Extra Relationship Theory). He also supplemented a great number of photos, pictures, and video clips and case studies by using PowerPoint. At the end of the lecture, Dr. Young demonstrated point locations and proofed their therapeutic effectiveness by needling on the audience. The audience gave lots of applauds during the lecture. Even after that, they continued to show their enthusiasms about the course and wished the lecture was not ended yet. Many participants waited to take pictures with Dr. Young after the lecture and all agreed the seminar was exceptionally helpful. Some thought the seminar increased ten years of their practice experience. Some expressed it was the best seminar they have ever had. Some sent appreciation notes to Dr. Young. Receiving so much strong feedback, Dr. Young was very touched, too.

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