Ready to level-up your TCM diagnosis?

Aram Akopyan
Oct 13
2 min read

Join Our Channel Examination Seminar (Jan 28–29, 2026)

Ever wished your TCM diagnosis could be faster, clearer, and more reproducible? This seminar is for you. Over 30 hours of study (15 hours self-paced online followed by two intensive practical days in Athens), you’ll learn the palpation-based examination system developed by Dr Wang Ju-Yi and taught by his apprentice Jonathan Chang—a clinician-educator known for clear, clinically grounded teaching.

Why this seminar matters

Most practitioners were taught to begin with symptoms and pattern lists. Channel Examination flips the sequence: start with the body’s palpable evidence, then connect those findings to symptom-patterns. This reduces trial-and-error point selection and sharpens treatment focus—especially in complex, multi-system cases. You’ll practise the Five Methods of Channel Examination (observation, pulse palpation, temperature/moisture, pressing, and channel palpation) so that your assessments become tangible, repeatable, and teachable.

What makes it clinically relevant

You won’t just hear theory—you’ll feel it. During the Live Sessions we’ll palpate all six channel pairings, the Abdomen and the Du vessel (Tai Yin LU/SP; Yang Ming LI/ST; Jue Yin PC/LV; Shao Yang SJ/GB; Shao Yin HT/KI; Tai Yang SI/UB), then integrate findings into case-based decisions and channel-selection strategies (including the Six Methods). Expect clear demonstrations, guided hands-on practice, and immediate clinical application when you’re back in clinic.

Advanced skills you’ll take home

Tactile literacy: learn to recognise the Eight Common Channel Changes—lumps, nodules, sticks, “crispy,” roughness, soft, bubbles, and hypertonicity—and what they imply diagnostically.
From symptoms to channels (and back): distinguish symptom-pattern vs channel-pattern to refine both diagnosis and point strategy.
Handling complexity: work through channel confusion & fatigue, so you can prioritise what matters when findings seem noisy.
Precision in selection: apply palpation findings to choose effective channels and points using structured selection methods—not guesswork.

Format & logistics

Self-paced online foundation (15 hrs): concise pre-recorded video lectures you can watch in the two weeks before the practicum; includes learning handouts.
Live practical Session (15 hrs): 28–29 January 2026 at Sanctuary by EIIHS, Kazantzaki 5, Halandri (Athens, Greece).
Audience: Continuing education for TCM clinicians and advanced
Practitioners who want a hands-on diagnostic edge that complements any diagnostic and therapeutic style.
Advanced students ready to move from theory to repeatable diagnosis.
Clinicians managing pain, internal medicine, and complex multi-system presentations who want faster, more targeted results—grounded in what you can feel at the bedside.
NCCAOM CEU/PDA pending

Meet your instructor

Jonathan Chang is a formal instructor and long-time apprentice of Dr Wang Ju-Yi, with nearly a decade of full-time study at the Applied Channel Theory Research Center in Beijing. A graduate of BUCM, he contributed to Dr Wang’s major publications and serves as Professor of Channel Theory at EIIHS.