While researching my next book, I discovered an intriguing case study by Dr. Gao Jianzhong 高建忠, who works at a hospital affiliated to the...

Whether as a cyclist, a practitioner of Chinese medicine, or a Neo-confucian scholar, the reason we are interested in discovering li 理,...

Chinese medicine and cycling are two of the passions of my life. I have practiced Chinese medicine for over four decades now, and cycled...

Shao Yong’s strange claims about the gallbladder storing the po souls and the bladder generating the blood have intrigued our examiners....

Imagine a student at a Chinese medicine college giving the following answer when questioned during their final year oral exam as to what...

As practitioners of Chinese medicine we tend to focus on herbs, minerals and needles as the tools of our trade. Around this core of...

Last year Dr. Karin Bervoets, a former student of mine, invited me to participate in a project entitled "Life in Balance" curated by the...

Ye Tianshi 葉天士 (1664-1746) was one of the most famous and innovative physicians in the long history of Chinese medicine. Born into a...

Slow food is an organisation founded in Italy in 1986 as an alternative to everything that fast food stands for. It focuses on quality...

What is the dao 道 of medicine: its knowledge of illness and the body; the ability of physicians to exercise clinical judgement; its store...

Imagine the fourteenth century physician Zhu Danxi 朱丹溪 (1281-1358) beamed into the late 1960s by Scotty from Starship Enterprise. Landing...

1922 was a most important year in the history of Chinese medicine even if the importance of that historical moment has largely been...

I explore t difference between mythology and history by examining the influence of Japanese kampo on contemporary jingfang Chinese medicine