• Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond

  • Written by: Dr. James Mohebali
  • Podcast
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Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond

Written by: Dr. James Mohebali
  • Summary

  • You have some deep questions about health, medicine, and alternative medicine. We do, too! Join your host, Dr. James Mohebali, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine, as we ask some of these difficult questions. Through clinical experience, deep study, and interviews with some of the best professionals in alternative and mainstream healthcare, we try to get to the bottom of these questions, finding out what we know, what we don’t know, and what’s at stake when it comes to our thoughts and our decisions about health, wellness, disease, and medicine itself. Our goal is that at the end of every episode, you will have a new way of relating to medicine, to health, and even to your own body.New episodes every other Monday morning.
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Episodes
  • Interview: What Acupuncturists Feel When They're Needling You
    Jun 27 2022

    See Part 1 Here: https://youtu.be/WbDDJ8b7PmE
    See Part 2 Here: https://youtu.be/TY9TL5BVbeI

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    Join Dr. James Mohebali and Brian Huwe in the third and final installment of their interview together. They cover topics that are important to acupuncturists, bodyworkers, massage therapists, doctors, energy workers, and anyone who is interested in making a healing contact with others. They talk about skin-to-skin Contact, needling style, what practitioners experience when they're needling. Brian demystifies the movement of qi (while keeping it pretty mystical!). He also talks about the similarities between teaching and healing, the risks of standardized medicine (both in Ancient China and today), and the difference between rational and empirical knowledge. If you're interested in the Hegelian Dialectic, Epistemology, or the Socratic method, you might find some answers you've been looking for here!

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    "Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond" is a new podcast and YouTube channel by Dr. James Mohebali, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

    We try to ask difficult questions from both a philosophical and a practical perspective about medicine, health, alternative medicine, and everything in between. We hope to deepen the conversation about medicine, taking it beyond the questions of "what's good" and "what's bad," instead trying to figure out what philosophies and assumptions underlie our approaches to medicine, so that we can begin to understand what's really at stake when we think about our health and wellness.

    📬 Want to hear about our newest projects? Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/cf27a4c6e683/difficult-questionseasy-decision

    🎬 Watch our most recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzqmnRkGkUJF8HQYZ8gifw/videos

    🎤 Check out the podcast — http://classicofdifficulties.buzzsprout.com

    A big thank you goes out from Dr. James to Jeffrey Yuen, without whom this show would not have been possible.

    MUSIC CREDIT:
    "Let Yourself Be Huge" — Cloudkicker (under Creative Commons license) — https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/let-yourself-be-huge
    A big thanks to u/Daoist_Hermit for the intro music clip.

    DISCLAIMER:
    Some links in description may be affiliate links, which means I will make a small commission if you click them and make a qualifying purchase, at no extra cost to you.

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    24 mins
  • Interview: Brian Huwe: Psychedelics, Trauma, & WHY DOES HEALING TAKE SO LONG?
    Jun 11 2022

    See Part 1 Here: https://youtu.be/WbDDJ8b7PmE
    See Part 3 Here Next Week: https://youtu.be/W5EOiw2LA6o

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    What does Chinese medicine have to say about psychedelic therapy for trauma, PTSD, and personality disorders? What's the difference between pain and suffering in medicine? Is Chinese medicine the fruition of Aristotle, Galileo, & Newton's natural philosophy? Join Dr. James Mohebali as he interviews his friend and mentor, Brian Huwe, L.Ac., to get to the bottom of some of the difficult questions facing doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and other health practitioners. Brian Huwe is a fellow St. John's College alumnus ("Johnnie") and a fellow student of Jeffrey Yuen. Brian practices acupuncture and herbal medicine outside of Roanoke, VA.

    👕 Show off your love for us with our NEW MERCH! — https://classic-of-difficulties.creator-spring.com/listing/classic-of-difficulties
    💪 Support our channel! — http://patreon.com/classicofdifficulties

    "Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond" is a new podcast and YouTube channel by Dr. James Mohebali, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

    We try to ask difficult questions from both a philosophical and a practical perspective about medicine, health, alternative medicine, and everything in between. We hope to deepen the conversation about medicine, taking it beyond the questions of "what's good" and "what's bad," instead trying to figure out what philosophies and assumptions underlie our approaches to medicine, so that we can begin to understand what's really at stake when we think about our health and wellness.

    📬 Want to hear about our newest projects? Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/cf27a4c6e683/difficult-questionseasy-decision

    🎬 Watch our most recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzqmnRkGkUJF8HQYZ8gifw/videos

    🎤 Check out the podcast — http://classicofdifficulties.buzzsprout.com

    A big thank you goes out from Dr. James to Jeffrey Yuen, without whom this show would not have been possible.

    MUSIC CREDIT:
    "Let Yourself Be Huge" — Cloudkicker (under Creative Commons license) — https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/let-yourself-be-huge
    A big thanks to u/Daoist_Hermit for the intro music clip.

    DISCLAIMER:
    Some links in description may be affiliate links, which means I will make a small commission if you click them and make a qualifying purchase, at no extra cost to you.

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    24 mins
  • Interview: St. John's College Grad & Acupuncturist Brian Huwe
    Jun 1 2022

    See the Second Part Here Next Week: https://youtu.be/TY9TL5BVbeI

    🔔 Subscribe for more 🔔
    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzqmnRkGkUJF8HQYZ8gifw?sub_confirmation=1

    Join Dr. James Mohebali as he interviews his friend and mentor, Brian Huwe, L.Ac., to get to the bottom of some of the difficult questions facing doctors, chiropractors, acupuncturists, massage therapists, and other health practitioners. Brian Huwe is a fellow St. John's College alumnus ("Johnnie") and a fellow student of Jeffrey Yuen. Brian practices acupuncture and herbal medicine outside of Roanoke, VA. They talk about the Chinese medical concept of the Heart as the emperor (which Dr. James mentioned in his "Heart is not a Pump" series, part 3). They also talk about different ideas about human nature, whether we should return to nature and aim for primal strength and hold up primal man as an ideal. They also talk about Aristotle, asceticism and fasting, parenthood, and Jeffrey Yuen's description of the primary channels of acupuncture (as they pertain to survival, interaction, and differentiation).

    👕 Show off your love for us with our NEW MERCH! — https://classic-of-difficulties.creator-spring.com/listing/classic-of-difficulties
    💪 Support our channel! — http://patreon.com/classicofdifficulties

    "Classic of Difficulties: Difficult Questions in Medicine, Acupuncture, and Beyond" is a new podcast and YouTube channel by Dr. James Mohebali, doctor of acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

    We try to ask difficult questions from both a philosophical and a practical perspective about medicine, health, alternative medicine, and everything in between. We hope to deepen the conversation about medicine, taking it beyond the questions of "what's good" and "what's bad," instead trying to figure out what philosophies and assumptions underlie our approaches to medicine, so that we can begin to understand what's really at stake when we think about our health and wellness.

    📬 Want to hear about our newest projects? Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/cf27a4c6e683/difficult-questionseasy-decision

    🎬 Watch our most recent videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJzqmnRkGkUJF8HQYZ8gifw/videos

    🎤 Check out the podcast — http://classicofdifficulties.buzzsprout.com

    A big thank you goes out from Dr. James to Jeffrey Yuen, without whom this show would not have been possible.

    MUSIC CREDIT:
    "Let Yourself Be Huge" — Cloudkicker (under Creative Commons license) — https://cloudkicker.bandcamp.com/track/let-yourself-be-huge
    A big thanks to u/Daoist_Hermit for the intro music clip.

    DISCLAIMER:
    Some links in description may be affiliate links, which means I will make a small commission if you click them and make a qualifying purchase, at no extra cost to you.

    Support the show
    Show More Show Less
    23 mins

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