Event description

Illustrated seminar exploring what the tongue tells us about our patients’ constitution and disease pattern, with Barbara Kirschbaum at the College of Integrated Chinese Medicine, Reading.

The basic principles of tongue diagnosis will be discussed using up to 300 pictures of tongues. Tongue colour and shape will be of great importance during this session as both help to determine the patient’s constitution and disease pattern according to the Eight Principles. This will be followed by a discussion of common clinical tongue signs in relation to the five zang.

The aim of this workshop is to enable the student to gain a greater confidence in  evaluating the different tongue signs

Barbara Kirschbaum is a member of British Acupuncture Council and FMRCHM. She qualified in 1980 at ICOM, East Grinstead, England. She studied with Giovanni Maciocia, Ted Kaptchuk and Dan Bensky from 1978 until 1990 and from 1991 and 1997/98 in various internships at Chinese hospitals in Kunming, Tianjin and Chengdu. She has been lecturing on acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine all over the world for 27 years.
From 1994 until 2006 she was director of the School of Chinese Pharmacology in Hamburg. From 1999 until 2008 she was one of the senior lecturers at the University Witten/Herdecke. From 2005 until 2008 she was a lecturer for the Argetcm Vienna. She is the author of the Atlas of Chinese Tongue Diagnosis, Volume 1 and 2, and author and publisher of several articles published in Germany. She has been in practice for 28 years and has specialised in the treatment of cancer, gynecology and gastrointestinal diseases. 

Course fee

£75 Refunds cannot be made unless at least two weeks notice is given.

Parking and rail travel

Parking is available at the Oracle shopping centre nearby. There is no car parking available at the College. We are a short walk from Reading railway station, at 19 Castle Street. Click here for directions and a map.

Course administration

0118 950 8880