Occasional musings on life & Chinese medicine

And what isn’t (written with Boo Kartawick) The roots of the medicine we practice as acupuncturists are deep, especially if you choose to adhere to the classical texts from which it originates. Most mainstream acupuncture that is practised these days is referred to as Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) which is misleading in its use of the work ‘Traditional’, given that it is relatively very recent. It differs from Classical acupuncture in several significant ways, but it es

It has been 2 months now since my father passed away. His sudden death, from a massive heart attack, left us all in shock, but was also made more upsetting by the fact that he lay on his patio flagstones for several days before anyone became aware of his passing. Days and nights went by while we remained oblivious, continuing our lives while nature took its course with his body. His dying left us with shock, and sadness, and grief, and regrets, but also a mountainous to-do li

I am often inspired to write after reading, and recently these words from Anne Laure Le Cunff did just that: Taking the time to write...

Moving into the realm of the untouchable.... Chinese medicine can be a controversial subject. What is 'qi', anyway? Where are these...

More specifically, to publish or not to publish? I have always enjoyed writing, and I am an avid consumer of other peoples’ content. However, I have often wondered whether anything I had to say would be of any interest to others. With the astronomical amount of content that our human race now has access to, what could I write that hadn’t already been written? Well, I then thought, maybe just an introduction to me, and to Chinese medicine, kind of. So here goes. I guess I can

Amongst other things..... I tend to err on caution's side, and be wary of over-promising, but I think I'd be safe to say that along with...

What is ours and what is not.... I am feeling restless as I write this, unable to shift a cloak of irritation that is sitting like fog on...