For over 5000 years, Chinese medicine has provided an observation-based approach to healing and health care. At a time, in America, where health care has become increasingly chaotic, Chinese medicine offers a calm, holistic, reassuring approach that takes our whole being into account as it considers what's ailing us. Just as she does in her practice (she specializes in female health issues) - Andrea focuses on every patient's unique story.
Can our health care actually empower us? The answer is yes!
Andrea Thorpe is a doctor and teacher in the fields of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Over the course of her 25 year career, Andrea has gained extensive education and clinical experience in England, China, and the United States.
Her educational achievements include a diploma in Chinese Medicine from the London school of Acupuncture (LSATCM), a master’s degree in Chinese Medicine from Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the completion of a 3 year fellowship at Tao of Wellness (sister clinic of Yo San University), and a doctoral degree in Chinese medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM).
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Andrea teaches medical professionals internationally, is a Board member of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM), serves on the Advisory Board of the Upright Wellness Center and is a Member of the American Society for Reproductive medicine (ASRM).
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For over 5000 years, Chinese medicine has provided an observation-based approach to healing and health care. At a time, in America, where health care has become increasingly chaotic, Chinese medicine offers a calm, holistic, reassuring approach that takes our whole being into account as it considers what's ailing us. Just as she does in her practice (she specializes in female health issues) - Andrea focuses on every patient's unique story.
Can our health care actually empower us? The answer is yes!
Andrea Thorpe is a doctor and teacher in the fields of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine. Over the course of her 25 year career, Andrea has gained extensive education and clinical experience in England, China, and the United States.
Her educational achievements include a diploma in Chinese Medicine from the London school of Acupuncture (LSATCM), a master’s degree in Chinese Medicine from Yo San University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the completion of a 3 year fellowship at Tao of Wellness (sister clinic of Yo San University), and a doctoral degree in Chinese medicine from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (PCOM).
Please visit our website - www.sagewellnesswithin.com
SOCIAL MEDIA
www.instagram.com/sagewellnesswithin
www.facebook.com/sagewellnesswithin
Andrea teaches medical professionals internationally, is a Board member of the American Board of Oriental Reproductive Medicine (ABORM), serves on the Advisory Board of the Upright Wellness Center and is a Member of the American Society for Reproductive medicine (ASRM).
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THIS EPISODE: A large part of our relationship with our bodies and our health is rooted in expectations, in turn, these expectations are often shaped by given social, cultural or medical constructs.
In this episode we touch on how we define our health expectations and how the broad and inclusive way Chinese medicine sees us, can help expand the lens through which we see and experience ourselves.
SHOW NOTES:
During the Ming dynasty (1368 to 1644) women’s role in Chinese society was very clearly defined. The duties of women of the upper echelons of society - these were the wives and daughters of scholars and men of official rank - was to produce an heir who would carry the family legacy. In other words, a son.
Meanwhile, they would bind their daughter’s feet and teach them the ways of proper conduct through the recitation of poetry.
One such woman was TAN YUNXIAN – who some of you may have read about in LISA SEE'S New York times best seller “ LADY TAN'S CIRCLE OF WOMEN”. Tan Yunxian lived from 1461 to 1556 (Mid-Ming dynasty) and, contrary to the norms of the time and thanks to the training she received from her grandparents, became a doctor.
She is the author of Miscellaneous Records of a Female Doctor - the first written account of the application of medical care by a woman doctor.
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