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About Maria Mercati's Acupuncture Syllabus

Gateway to Excellence and Quality

“For me, Acupuncture is like a chess game challenge. It's so exciting as there are many, many ways to use it to produce a desired effect. Skill, knowledge, experience and kindness are the essential tools to effectively and almost intuitively use this most powerful of medicine.

The outcomes can be so remarkable that it can almost seem like magic. At other times it is necessary to draw on my years of experience and be more patient as the desired results unfold more slowly.

(see patient experience below) My goal is to give every patient and acupuncture student these experiences.”

Getting the Right Balance

My course produces the complete and competent professional acupuncturist with the widest possible opportunities. There are several courses to choose from. I do not believe in acupuncture being a three year degree course, but nor do I approve of courses that are so short that they cannot provide a sound basis of training.

High standards are an absolute necessity as Acupuncture is a serious therapy where inept needling can cause serious damage and penetrate organs and the spinal cord !!!

"Would you be happy as a patient to go to someone who has completed a course that has been deliberately shortened in order to keep the price low?"

My course is intensive and rigorous from the start and very practical. The main emphasis is on TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) acupuncture throughout. The course covers all essential Chinese medical theory together with the practical skills which qualify you to confidently and safely practice the following:

• Orthopaedic acupuncture which enables you to effectively deal with all musculo-skeletal problems

• Spinal acupuncture which is used for both musculo-skeletal and all internal conditions
  

• Chinese applied acupuncture that focuses on emotional problems

• Specialist acupuncture based on the Chinese (TCM ) syndromes or patterns of disharmony. This covers conditions affecting the digestive, respiratory, reproductive, circulatory and neurological systems
  

DIAGNOSIS Observation, interrogation, listening, palpation. Tongue & Pulse Diagnosis

• Taking a case study

• To have an understanding of the causes of disharmony and to apply this knowledge to treating a patient

MERIDIANS and 150 ACUPOINTS

• To identify and accurately locate these acu-points and to use them appropriately
  

• Microsystems auricular acupuncture for detox as well as treating the whole body
  

• Cupping as a therapy and in conjunction with acupuncture
  

• Moxibustion for use in both musculo-skeletal and internal conditions.
  

• An introduction to five element acupuncture

Some acupuncture courses cover only one or two of the forms of acupuncture listed above.

The syllabus and style of my Acupuncture course is completely unique and entirely based on my vast experience of both treating thousands of patients and teaching this constantly evolving course for the last 16 years.

My courses nurture highly successful acupuncturists with the widest possible opportunities. There are several courses to choose from. I do not believe in acupuncture being a degree course, but nor do I approve of courses that are so short that they cannot provide a sound basis of training. High standards are an absolute necessity as Acupuncture is a serious therapy where inept needling can cause serious damage and penetrate organs and the spinal cord!!!

Would you be happy as a patient to go to someone who has completed a course that has been deliberately shortened in order to keep the price low?

Acupuncture is a skill and passion and since 1992, I have studied eleven times in many different parts of China. Not only do I observe acupuncture in the hospitals, but I also have daily acupuncture myself. In addition I have worked closely for seven years with a TCM doctor.

Acupuncture can change people's lives, physically and emotionally - read on.....

Distanza Orr - patient experience

My first experience with acupuncture is one that I will never forget, I could kind of describe it as the first breath you take after holding your breath under water for as long as you can, but that would only touch the sides.....

Maria had asked everybody attending the tui na course to try acupuncture, I was very nervous and was pretty sure at first that I wouldn't try it. I stayed by on the thursday to watch her do acupuncture on two of the other students and she asked me if I wanted to try it I said that I hated needles and that the idea made me very nervous. She said not to worry and after a little more coaxing I said ok.

I laid on the couch and closed my eyes, i had sweaty palms and was very anxious you can imagine, anyhow she said she was going to use very fine needles, i said ok and she said she'd do something gentle.

When the last pin went into on the left foot the most amazing sensation happened to me the sensation i felt was what i imagined to see/feel at the moment i took my last breath and died, i will elaborate on that... basically it was like every scene  in my whole life flashed before my eyes in a split second a millionth of a split second but i saw every one and the rush i felt was better than any drug or orgasm i have ever experienced ever it was like a divine intervention, breath taking, with this instant emotion i burst into spontaneous tears but not of sadness just through sheer joy enlightenment that i had experienced in this Millie second.

And with the crying my heart started beating like crazy my breathing became a little erratic but Maria came along and massaged some points to calm me down. I got my self relatively calm and before I knew it she was tweaking my needles I didn't have the flash but the wave of emotion started me crying again. Those 40 minutes were the most memorable moments in my entire life the moment was a life time and I knew at the very second I felt what I did that I wanted to learn this and practice it for the rest of my life. Thank you Maria and family for my own personal release from life.

I had more acupuncture the following week - the next day i didn't even feel like i existed, by this i mean i felt so calm and felt that i was floating like  had no gravitation all day, to the point where i went to the pool and just stuck floats under my arms and legs so i could rally feel like i was weightless it was phenomenal xx

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