Reading the Ryodoraku chart
The physiological mean, the ±0.7σ band, right-left asymmetries, and the patterns that keep recurring.
How it starts
A measurement produces twenty-four numbers. This lesson teaches you to turn them into clinical information, a step many practitioners skip: they take the measurement, glance at the chart for a second, and then treat what they were going to treat anyway.
The rest of the lesson opens with Acupuncture III.
In this lesson you will learn
- Read a complete Ryodoraku chart: mean, band, out-of-band channels, and laterality.
- Work with both band criteria and know what each one contributes.
- Recognize the profile patterns that come up again and again.
- Integrate the chart with Chinese diagnosis without giving it more weight than it deserves.
What is inside
- 1The four readings of the chart
- 2The two band criteria
- 3The overall mean
- 4The patterns that keep recurring
- 5When the chart and the clinical picture disagree
- 6The strongest use: follow-up
One of the 23 lessons in
Acupuncture IIIClinical Practice
“From pattern to needle, with the patient in front of you.”
The real consultation: differential diagnosis of patterns, the great classical systems (six stages, four levels, Sanjiao), Nakatani's Ryodoraku protocol with electrodermal measurement, and reasoned protocols by body system. It ends with clinical management, applied chronoacupuncture, and an integrated case.
By the end of the course, you will know how to
- Differentiate Zang-Fu patterns from tongue, pulse, and symptoms.
- Apply the six stages and the four levels to a febrile presentation.
- Perform and interpret a complete Ryodoraku measurement.
- Design a reasoned treatment for the twenty most common reasons for consultation.
- Keep a clinical record and follow-up with clear referral criteria.
What you will study
Module 1 · 5 lessons
Differential diagnosis
The patterns, one by one, with what sets each apart from its neighbors.
- Qi, Blood, and Fluid patterns
- Heart, Lung, and Spleen patterns
- Liver and Kidney patterns
- Fu organ patterns
- Combined patterns
Module 2 · 2 lessons
The great systems
When illness advances in layers: the classical maps of progression.
- The six stages (Shanghan Lun)
- Four levels and Sanjiao (Wen Bing)
Module 3 · 3 lessons
Ryodoraku
The bridge between the channel and the ammeter: measure, read and treat.
- Nakatani and electrodermal measurement
- Reading the Ryodoraku chartYou are here
- From chart to treatment
Module 4 · 8 lessons
Reasoned protocols
Real presenting complaints, with differential, points and referral criteria.
- Neck and low back pain
- Shoulder, elbow, and knee
- Headaches and migraine
- Digestive system
- Respiratory and allergies
- Gynecology
- Insomnia, anxiety, and mood
- Dermatology and miscellany
Module 5 · 5 lessons
The complete acupuncturist
What separates someone who needles from someone who treats.
- Clinical record, consent, and follow-up
- Applied chronoacupuncture
- Integrating acupuncture and herbal medicine
- Integrated clinical case
- Final exam · Acupuncture III
Requirements
Acupuncture I and II.
How it works
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