Elisa Rossi

Elisa Rossi is MD, Acupuncturist, 4-year Ph.D in Clinical Psychology, Licensed Psychotherapist (Jungian), B.A. in Philosophy.

After a 3-year Course in Acupuncture at “So-Wen” in Milan, Elisa attended the 3-months Training Course of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Beijing in 1983. Since then she went back to China 8 more times, for one or two months, gaining clinical experience in the TCM Departments of Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Jinan.
In 1985 Rossi started practicing Taijiquan with Ermanno Cozzi and she Qigong with Li Xiaoming in 1989. In 1992 she spent 2 months in Beijing studying with dr. Lu Guangyun, director of Qigong Department of Xiyuan Hospital. In 1994, together with a group of 9 acupuncturists, Elisa Rossi founded the School of TCM “MediCina”, and from 1996 she is a certified FISA acupuncture teacher. From 2002 to 2005 she was President of FISTQ, the Italian Federation of Schools of Tuina and Qigong, of which she is now Scientific Coordinator. From 2006 Rossi is member of Milano Medical Board for Non-Conventional Medicine.
Rossi cooperates with Agopuntura Senza Frontiere ASF and volunteered in Madagascar – 2008, Laos – 2010, Tanzania – 2012.

Publications:
– „Shen – Psycho-Emotional Aspects of Chinese Medicine“, Churchill-Livingstone, 2007

This book explains in full how the emotional, mental and physical elements of Chinese Medicine in illness are an extremely effective therapy in dealing with cases where the alterations of the shen are both obvious and subtle. This book focuses on the psycho-spiritual aspects of patients‘ conditions and is purposely constructed to facilitate practitioners‘ formulations of diagnosis and treatment. It reflects throughout on the patient-practitioner relationship, resources and various characteristics of acupuncture, and inherent problems and qualities.

 

 

-„Pediatric Tuina“(online Video)

– „Pediatrics in Chinese Medicine“ 2011

Articles in English:
– “Notes of diagnosis and evaluation of efficacy in TCM”, European Journal of Oriental Medicine, vol.5 n.1, 1995
– “The space shared between patient and acupuncturist”, European Journal of Oriental Medicine, vol.3 n.2, 2000
– “Fire and emotional illnesses”, European Journal of Oriental Medicine, vol.4, n.6, 2005
– “Shoulder chronic pain treated with wrist-ankle acupuncture”, Journal of Chinese Medicine, n.80, 2006
– “Paediatric Tuina and Acupuncture: The Xiaoxiao Clinic in Milan”, Journal of Chinese Medicine, n.85, 2007.
– “Acupuncture and Tuina for Hyperactive Children” (Journal of Chinese Medicine, n.94, 2010);
– “Children and Water-Fire Unbalance” (Jing-Shen, n.6, 2010);
– “Basis of Paediatric Tuina” (The Lantern, vol.VIII, n.1, 2011)
– “Pediatrics in Chinese Medicine”, Donica, 2011

Shen and clinical work:
A special interest in the psychic sides of the human being and of medicine led Rossi to get deeper into the connection between the psychoanalytic and the traditional Chinese point of view. She also focused on the relation between patient and acupuncturist, subjects on which she researches, teaches and publishes. Some examples of her contribution can be seen in the paper “Hun and Po: Functions and diagnosis” (The Fourth World Conference on Acupuncture, New York 1996); her being in charge of the Public Health “Project for Treatment with Acupuncture for Generalized Anxiety Disorder” (ASL Vimercate – Milano); her lectures on “Mental Disorders and Chinese Medicine” for Public Health and Social Workers (ASL 4, Prato, 2003; Crinali, 2006, 2008, 2009).

Children and Chinese Medicine:
Rossis first contacts with TCM and children were in 1983, at the Academy of Acupuncture of Beijing. Since then, in her private practice she used acupuncture in paediatrics, thanks also to Julian Scott’s teachings. Later on Rossi had the chance to know more about paediatric tuina and also to see qigong treatment performed on children, at Xiyuan Hospital, Beijing, in 1992, by Lu Guangyun.

Her main training was with Yin Ming, at the TCM Paediatric Departments of the Provincial Hospital of Nanjing in 1999 and 2000, backed up by the work with Zhang Sufang, at the Provincial Hospital of Jinan, in 2006. Elisa Rossi set up and run the Children’s Centre in the last two years of her teaching at Associazione MediCina, in 2002-04, with Julian Scott’s support, and in 2005 she opened the Xiaoxiao Centre. With the support of the Federation of Italian Schools of Tuina and Qigong (FISTQ), it carries out two free pilot-projects: for the treatment and prevention of child respiratory diseases and for children with sleep disorders, hyperactivity or attention deficit.

Xiaoxiao is also a Training Centre for practitioners who want to focus on Paediatrics and organizes workshops for parents.

Elisa Rossi, Pediatrics in Chinese Medicine
Children correspond to spring, to dawn, to the rising of yang within yin, to wind. Their qi is characterized by impulsive, rapid, sudden movement that is also a feature of any changes in their state of health – young children fall ill very easily, yet respond just as readily to treatment. Chinese medicine, which considers illnesses as manifestations of an imbalance in the body’s energetic system, is very effective in making resources available that are important in enabling the child to grow up in a more harmonious and beneficial way.
Main features:
· Comprehensive introduction to the unique benefits of Chinese medicine in the treatment of children’s disorders.
· Detailed description of the etiology, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of childhood diseases according to TCM principles.
· Clearly illustrated presentation of the main tuina sequences and acupuncture points.
· Practical examples of the application of treatment principles and in-depth analysis of 18 case histories giving a useful insight into an assortment of clinical conditions.
· Extensive discussion of the relationship between practitioners and young patients (and their parents) and of the difficulties and rewards experienced in clinical practice.
· Suitable for all tuina and acupuncture practitioners and for all those interested in treating children in a non-invasive manner.