Today's guest Dr. Daniel Keown is an author (The Uncharted Body and The Spark In The Machine), licensed acupuncturist, and a registered medical doctor (trained and specialising in emergency medicine). In this compelling conversation, Tahnee and Daniel discuss the problem with western medicine (and its lack of predictive power), the subtlety of acupuncture, Qi in the body, The TCM Channel system (Jing Luo), Fascia, understanding how the body works, and the all-pervading spark that is electricity.
Tahnee and Dr. Daniel discuss:
䷁Qi is spirit.
䷁The triple burner.
䷁Movement and electricity.
䷁Pregnancy and Jing essence.
䷁How Qi operates in the organs.
䷁The TCM channel system (Jing Luo).
䷁Hypertension and low blood volume.
䷁The Lymphatic system and Gallbladder.
䷁How Qi, Jing and Shen operate in the body.
䷁The predictive power of traditional Chinese medicine.
䷁The subtleness of acupuncture in emergency medicine.
䷁Why movement is so important to the flow of Qi in the body.
䷁The damaging effects of Western pharmaceuticals on the body.
Who is Daniel Keown?
Dr. Daniel Keown MD MCEM Lic Ac became interested in Chinese medicine when hearing from his octogenarian grandmother about her traveling around China. In 1998 he qualified in medicine from Manchester University, England, and then obtained a degree in Acupuncture from The College of Integrated Chinese Medicine in 2008.
He continues to practice Western medicine having passed the membership exams of the College of Emergency Medicine (MCEM) in 2014. His enduring aim is to re-establish acupuncture and Qi at the forefront of medicine in the West. To this aim, he published The Spark In The Machine in 2014, which shows how the principles of Chinese medicine can be fully explained with a deeper understanding of how the human body works, an understanding that necessitates a semi-mystical force at work i.e. Qi.