Laurie Regan Archives |

Healing Through Modern Science and Eastern Medicine

CCM2024-10-16T12:33:33-07:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Eastern philosophy, Into Healing, Laurie Regan, Mira Kaddoura, natural medicine, naturopathic medicine, neuroscience|

Into Healing with Mira Kaddoura
Interview with Laurie Regan

After earning her doctorate in neuroscience at Harvard University, Dr. Laurie Regan became a naturopathic doctor and the Dean of the College of Classical Chinese Medicine at the National University of Natural Medicine for over a decade. Laurie harmonizes contemporary science with Eastern philosophies and Chinese medicine. She shares how the stories we tell ourselves can influence the nervous system, how unexpressed love can manifest as disease, and how reconnecting with blocked parts can help us regain health. There’s so much to be learned from our conversation, but her key message? Despite trauma or disease, at our deepest level, our bodies are never broken.

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Telltale Signs on the Tongue

CCM2023-02-15T16:33:23-08:00Tags: acupuncture, Barbara Kirschbaum, cancer, Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, TCM, tongue diagnosis, trauma|

A skilled Chinese medicine practitioner can learn a tremendous amount about a patient’s history and current condition just by observing their tongue. What are they looking for? Heiner interviews internationally recognized expert Barbara Kirschbaum to find out. Listen as Barbara provides insights gained from her more than thirty years of experience using tongue analysis in the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic disease, with a special focus on cancer and trauma. Barbara Kirschbaum is the author of the widely used textbooks The Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, volumes 1 and 2, and is Director of the TCM Clinic within the Breast Cancer Center of the Jerusalem Hospital in Hamburg, Germany.

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Exploring Ancient Wisdom with Classical Chinese Medicine Scholar Sabine Wilms

CCM2023-02-15T16:41:59-08:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, Sabine Wilms, Sun Simiao|

Why ancient wisdom is so relevant for finding health and harmony in today’s world? Join Heiner and Laurie for a lively discussion with Dr. Sabine Wilms, world-renown expert on the life and works of ancient sage-scholar Sun Simiao (581-682 A.D.). Known as the “King of Medicine” (Yaowang), Sun Simiao is revered not only for his medical acumen (especially in the realm of herbal prescription), but also for his deep knowledge of how to “nourish life”, emphasizing the health of women and children.

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The Triple Warmer Organ Network of Chinese Medicine

CCM2023-02-15T16:43:24-08:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, organ networks, triple warmer|

This episode explores the most mysterious of the organ networks. Join us for a discussion of the elusive Triple Warmer Organ Network—perhaps the least understood of the Chinese organ systems. While not easily associated with any specific physical organ, the Triple Warmer functions are related to warmth, water metabolism, and networking throughout the body. Aspects of nervous and endocrine system functioning are likely involved.

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The Pericardium Organ Network of Chinese Medicine

CCM2023-02-15T16:44:29-08:00Tags: Chinese medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, organ networks, pericardium|

The heart protector function. Join us for a discussion of the functions of the Pericardium Organ Network—the system responsible for protecting our heart and allowing for true intimacy.

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Western Holistic Medicine: How to Truly Integrate Different Approaches to Medicine

CCM2023-02-15T16:45:24-08:00Tags: acupuncture, allopathic medicine, Anthroposophical medicine, Chinese medicine, Classical Chinese Medicine, Goethe, Heiner Fruehauf, integrative medicine, Laurie Regan, Rudolf Steiner, TCM|

Heiner and Laurie interview Dr. Paul Kalnins, a scholar practitioner with an unusually broad and deep perspective on how to truly integrate biomedical approaches with natural medicine approaches. After majoring in physics in his undergraduate studies, Dr. Kalnins attained degrees in Chinese and naturopathic medicine, and pursued additional study of the works of Goethe and Steiner. Dr. Kalnins discusses methods of cultivating one’s own perceptive abilities as a means to more directly understand what part of “the whole” is elucidated by different systems of medicine, and how these systems can be used together to optimize patient care.

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Healing Through the Emotions: The Confucian Therapy System of Wang Fengyi

CCM2023-02-15T16:50:07-08:00Tags: Confucianism, emotions, Five Element virtue healing, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, Wang Fengyi|

This 5-element emotional release system can result in a rapid and profound return to health. Tamara Staudt, ND, LAc shares with Heiner and Laurie her direct experience with this powerful system of emotional healing. In 2010, Dr. Staudt was a member of the first group of foreigners to attend in a Wang Fengyi retreat in China. Having received great personal benefit as a participant, Dr. Staudt was inspired to lead the first Wang Fengyi retreat in the United States in June, 2011. Of particular note, one woman who entered the US retreat with liposarcoma remains cancer-free since that time. Heiner and Laurie have also participated in this type of healing work, and are big proponents of its powerful simplicity.

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Treating Trauma in Times of War and Peace

CCM2023-02-15T16:50:46-08:00Tags: acupuncture, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, PTSD, Roger Batchelor, trauma|

Acupuncture gives hope to the survivors of trauma–even those suffering from PTSD. It is common knowledge that the long-term sequelae of trauma can be devastating, but how many know there is much hope available in the form of acupuncture and other forms of natural medicine? Laurie interviews Roger Batchelor, DAOM, LAc, who has more than two decades of experience treating trauma survivors in public health and private clinical settings. Roger gives insight into how an acute traumatic event (or series of events) can cause chronic problems, and how these can be reversed through the skillful use of Chinese medicine.

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The “Bladder Type” and the “Kidney Type” in Chinese Medicine

CCM2023-02-15T16:53:17-08:00Tags: bladder, Classical Chinese Medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, kidney, Laurie Regan, organ networks|

BLADDER
The bladder is the organ function that leads to Enlightenment. Heiner discusses how ancient symbol scientists described the functioning of what is arguably the body’s most mystical and esoteric channel network, namely the Bladder.

KIDNEY
What did real “surrender” mean to the ancient Chinese, and why did they deem it to be necessary for a person to live a fully authentic life? We’ll explore this question today, through the discussion of the characteristics attributed to the Kidney Channel Network of Chinese medicine. Ancient wisdom keepers defined the body’s root system as a type of “battery” for the storage of our core vitality, called “Source Qi”.

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Natural Medicine Works for Animals, Too (2 Parts)

CCM2023-02-15T16:55:51-08:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, conventional medicine, Heiner Fruehauf, integrative medicine, Laurie Regan, Steve Marsden, veterinary medicine|

Our guest this week and next has a unique perspective from which to compare and integrate conventional and natural medicine. Steve Marsden was by all accounts a successful veterinarian, but felt that his toolkit of drugs and surgery was too limited to reliably achieve the kinds of outcomes that he wanted to with his furry, feathered, and scaled patients. Although initially wary of natural medicine, he was willing to investigate whether it could broaden and deepen his ability to help animals heal.

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Your Body is a Sacred Landscape

CCM2023-02-15T16:57:11-08:00Tags: chronic disease, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, nutrition, vitality and wellness|

Listen to the messages conveyed by your physical symptoms. In our culture, we are conditioned to think of symptoms as problems to fix. We have our growths removed with surgery, our fevers lowered with aspirin, and our rashes removed by steroid creams. While this kind of approach can have the blessing of alleviating our suffering, and even be a valuable component of our healing process, it alone does not address why the symptoms were there in the first place. Heiner and Laurie discuss the importance of listening to your body’s messages about what is out of balance, and learning to make corresponding choices that support the movement toward health. Even in a state of good health, our physical form can be understood as sacred reflection of the inner working of our being.

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The Cosmology and Symbolism of the Twelve Organ Systems of Chinese Medicine

CCM2023-02-15T16:58:02-08:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, cosmology, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, organ networks, symbolism|

This week, we open the door to a rich understanding that has come from more than a decade of research by a study group led by Heiner. Through excavation of the profound and timeless knowledge held in the ancient Chinese record, this team has uncovered multi-layered, symbolic meaning behind the system of 12 meridians that play a central role in Chinese medicine. Commonly thought of as pathways of qi flow in the body, these meridians, or organ systems, relate to sets of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual functions in the microcosm of the human body.

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The Empress of all the Chinese Organ Networks—the Heart

CCM2023-02-15T17:00:54-08:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, cosmology, heart, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, organ networks, symbolism|

This week we explore the Heart Organ Network. The primary function associated with Heart in Chinese medicine is to move our awareness in the direction of unity, and enable us to experience true community and connection. Join us as we explore how the ancients conceived of this fundamental role in our human experience, and what their insights have to offer us in today’s increasingly alienating world.

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Why Classical Chinese Medicine is Relevant Today

CCM2023-02-15T17:02:15-08:00Tags: Classical Chinese Medicine, cosmology, Five Phases (Elements) Theory, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, organ networks, Six Conformations, symbolism|

Co-host Laurie Regan interviews Heiner Fruehauf to learn about the basic principles of classical Chinese medicine, and why this ancient knowledge still holds so much relevance for us today. Many ancient cultures had the practical realization that everything that exists is an inseparable mix of energy and matter, and is interconnected with everything else. Nothing is coincidence. In the realm of medicine, this means that every illness has meaning, and every symptom is a physical marker for the energy and consciousness that forms it. We can learn to read and interpret symptoms to understand the root cause of illness and find true solutions for restoring health.

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The Inspiring Life Story of Chinese Qigong Master Wang Qingyu (2 Parts)

CCM2023-02-15T16:49:21-08:00Tags: acupuncture, Chinese history, Classical Chinese Medicine, Daoism, Heiner Fruehauf, Laurie Regan, Li Jie, martial arts, qigong, TCM, Wang Qingyu|

In this two-part podcast, Laurie narrates and Heiner translates the biographical story of master Wang Qingyu. The story begins with Master Wang’s birth, literally on a battlefield during the Japanese invasion of China. Especially touching are his remembrances of his beloved Daoist teacher, Li Jie, a legendary Daoist hermit who taught young Wang the real value of cultivation practices–to know one’s own heart and become a truly good person.

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