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Touch: The Pulse of East Asian Medicine
Wisdom Tradition: East Asian medicineSpotlight Cultures: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, TaiwaneseDate & Time: Wednesday, April 30 | 2:10–3:00 PMLocation: UCSF Mount Zion Campus, Osher Center – 5th Floor, Room 526Takeaway: A one-page guide on pulse diagnosis and the healing art of acupuncture.What can a pulse reveal beyond your heartbeat?
In East Asian medicine, touch offers profound insight into the body’s energetic state. In this session, Helen Ye, MS, LAc, and Janice Mao, DAOM, LAc, introduce participants to pulse diagnosis and self-acupressure while sharing the role of touch-based therapies such as cupping and gua sha in restoring circulation, relieving stagnation, and rebalancing the body. Rooted in traditions like Traditional Chinese Medicine, Kampo (Japanese medicine), and Korean Traditional Medicine, this session invites participants to experience healing through the hands—where insight and care meet.
Rooted in 8 Senses: Connecting to AANHPI Wisdom Traditions. This event is part of Rooted in 8 Senses, an experiential series co-created by clinicians, faculty, and trainees from the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health. The series explores time-honored healing traditions rooted in whole-person, collective, and relational well-being. Beyond the individual experience of sight, smell, sound, taste, and touch, many Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) healing traditions recognize three additional senses—balance, resourcefulness, and wholeness. These senses expand how we engage with the world: through community, in connection with nature, and within ecosystems of interdependence and care.
View the full April 28–May 9, schedule: apasa.ucsf.edu/aanhpi-wellness-week. The inaugural 2025 UCSF AANHPI Health & Wellness Weeks is a multi-organization collaboration co-led by the Asian Pacific American Systemwide Alliance (APASA). All events are free and supported by the UCSF Human Resources Community Wellbeing Grant. Everyone is welcome. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email [email protected].