Meridian Frequency Moxibustion with Ontake Warm Bamboo

Course description

Ontake Warm Bamboo is a ground-breaking new moxibustion technique based on Doctor Manaka’s theory of Meridian Frequencies. Heated bamboo is applied on the skin rhythmically at specific frequencies of beats per minute, according to the meridian affected. 

This meridian frequency treatment brings about rapid changes in body condition and relieves pain fast. It will greatly enhance your clinical effectiveness and, very importantly, patients love it. The application of Ontake will deepen your palpation skills, literally bringing you closer in touch with the channel system and broadening your understanding of its dynamic interrelationships.

Day One of the workshop covers everything you need to know about the basics of loading, lighting and applying bamboo treatment. As well as creating more time for practice,  Day Two explores symptom relief with bamboo in much greater detail. This includes guidelines on treating specific conditions and holographic models for pain relief developed by Dr Tan and adapted for use with bamboo. 

DAY 1

• Ontake Origins

• Introduction to Dr Manaka and his ideas

• Root and Branch treatment in Japanese Acupuncture

• Dr Manaka’s Meridian Frequencies, wooden Needle and hammer, tapping zones

• Loading, lighting and applying Ontake

• Palpation, deficiency and excess

• Bamboo Max and Mini – Root treatments with Ontake

DAY 2

• Holographic Thinking

• Dr Tan’s concepts of body mirrors and images

• Meridian pairings and a simple Ontake matrix

• Chasing the pain

• Dazhui DU 14 and other meeting points

• Clinical applications: Branch Treatments

• The Goldilocks Zone: Dosage and overtreatment

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Systematically palpate the channels and note significant reactions 

• Load bamboo with moxa and light it safely

• Perform tapping, touching and closing, rolling, standing, rocking, pressing, leaning, vibrating and knocking techniques with heated bamboo

• List and apply the frequencies for each meridian

• Apply a whole body warm bamboo treatment to strengthen the root

• Describe Japanese acupuncture concepts of dosage and recognise sensitive patients

• Remedy overtreatment using Ontake

• Treat pain: select treatment channels according to the Ontake matrix and different holographic images of the body on the arms and legs

• Apply warm bamboo to treat a broad range of conditions including headache, neck pain, back pain, knee pain, constipation, diarrhoea, stress, depression and anxiety