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Acupuncture Congress 2018 Herbal Medicine: Open Access
ISSN: 2472-0151 Page 44
August 20-21, 2018
Dublin, Ireland
9th International Conference on
Acupuncture &
Chinese Medicine
Author will begin the presentation with a brief discussion of the
encroachment of the dry needle technique into acupuncture
and the implications of minimally trained needle therapist
effectively practicing acupuncture. The distinguishing feature is
thatacupuncturistsareexpertsinknowledgeastheystudy,practice
and understand a comprehensive health system according to the
theories and practices within the curriculum of acupuncture and
oriental medicine. Experts in knowledge also include the musculo
skeletal realm that is being performed by the dry needler. As
experts in knowledge/organ centered consciousness the core of
this presentation will revolve around the interpretation of dreams
which is structured upon Saam acupuncture/meditation’s three
levels of human needs. We will look at how acupuncture and
oriental medicine affords the most complete structure to date
on the study of consciousness and unconsciousness reflected in
dreams. Finding similarities between east andwest, we build upon
the ground work that was laid by founding fathers of psychology
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung as well as the later theory of John
Sarno. The first hint of acupuncture and oriental medicine’s organ
centered consciousness is understood through the emotion
specific attributes of the five elements and the internal organs.
Joy is the emotion pertaining to the heart, worry to the spleen,
sadness to the lungs, fear to the kidneys and anger to the liver.
Saam acupuncture; meditation and the interpretation of dreams
build upon these organ centric themes. A likely departure from
mind/brain centered consciousness that may be implicit in
current understandings of consciousness.
Biography
Evan Mahoney has completed his Graduation, MS and Doctorate in Acu-
puncture and Oriental Medicine at Samra University of Oriental Medicine,
Los Angeles, CA, 2011. He has been in private practice in Cape Coral, Florida.
He is the author of “Saam Medical Meditation and Korean Kinetic Acupunc-
ture” book series.
Experts in knowledge/organ centered consciousness
distinguishing acupuncture from the dry needle technique
Evan Mahoney
Samra University of Oriental Medicine, USA
Evan Mahoney, Herb Med. 2018, Volume 4
DOI: 10.21767/2472-0151-C1-002