online course

Available through Pacific Rim Online College.

from zang fu to the channels

This course is based on Dr Allan’s book From Zang Fu to the Channels. It is a comprehensive course teaching you the foundational concepts of Master Tung Style Acupuncture.
If you have heard of the Master Tung Channel style system for acupuncture and are interested in learning how to apply it clinically, this is the course for you. Dr. Allan has spent years learning and practicing channel style acupuncture and has created a book and course to help you understand this system easily. It is full of real examples and concepts to help you not only incorporate Master Tung points but freely use classical points, and points along the channels needed to get the best results for your patients. 
This course is designed to help you really understand how to effectively use the channels and points so you don’t have to memorize the functions of each. You can intuitively know what the points do once you understand the foundational concepts.

“This course and book can also help you to get the most out of your time in our clinic in Granada if you choose to follow up with our mentorship program here. If you don’t understand everything when you get here, don’t worry Dr. Allan can clear things up and work through any lingering questions in a clinical setting.

Dr. Allan’s Meridian Chart

An excerpt from the book…

Meridians have 7 main relationships that treat themselves and others.

They are:
1. Same Name Pairs
2. Branching / Zang Fu Bei Tang
3. Interior / Exterior
4. Clock Opposite
5. Clock Neighbours
6. Self
7. Interior / Exterior Same Name Partner (HT and BL or LIV and SJ or Kid and SI)

You will see in the chart that the meridians are listed in two relationship pairs.(Inner/Outer and Zang Fu Bei Tang) If one was to imagine that each one of the four quadrants was imposed on a limb, you will notice some patterns that emerge. The upper quadrants are the arms, and the lower quadrants the legs. You will also notice that I have listed the Yin meridians in the order of Tai, Shao, and Jue (Open, Pivot, and Close) from top to bottom, in both the Inner / Outer pairs, and the Zang Fu Bei Tang series, the reason for which will become clear in a moment.

With the Interior / Exterior Pair relationships, you can see that the diagonal axis will balance, as they are the Same Name (Relationship #1). The horizontal axis balances, they are Interior / Exterior pairs (Relationship #3). You will also notice that as a result the vertical axis balance as they are the Same Name / Inner Outer pair partner (Relationship #7).

In the Zang Fu Bei Tang relationship you will see that the diagonal axis balance as they are the Same Name Pairs (Relationship #1), (we saw this in the Interior / Exterior series as well). In the Zang Fu Bei Tang series the vertical axis balances. (Relationship #2). It does not however balance horizontally ie; Lung does not balance Small Intestine, Bladder does not balance Spleen.

In the Zang Fu Bei Tang relationship you will see one other pattern emerge. The hand meridians are balanced by the LIV, SP, and KID from top to bottom when listed Tai, Shao and Jue.


What we are seeing is that the Yin clock neighbours are balancing (LIV- LU, HT-SP, and PC-KID) and the channel Clock Opposites, as well. The Clock Opposites (Relationship # 4) on the left hand side of the chart have already been balanced as they are also the Zang Fu Bei Tang (Relationship # 2) pairs (LU-BL, HT-GB, PC-ST), so you already know that connection. The only thing left is the Clock Opposite (relationship #4) for LIV, SP, and KID. They all fall into the hand meridians of the Zang Fu Bei Tang series. They balance horizontally.