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Drawing On the Dao: Less Strain, More Gain

by Vicki McKenna

This account of the principles and practice of Hydrotherapy follows a lifetime's study of Naturopathic Techniques after conventional medicine had failed to improve what David calls...

Drawing On The Dao: Responding To Shock

by Vicki McKenna

In this article the author draws on the Dao philosophy to treat those in shock. According to the Daoist classics during shock there is no home for the Shen, the Chinese name given ...

Drawing on the Dao: Taking Action, Moving Forward

by Vicki McKenna

Towards the end of a busy day, the author began to feel stressed, fuzzy-headed and anxious. As a practitioner of the art of Daoist acupuncture, she says she knew it was a message f...

Drawing on the Dao: Tied up in Knots

by Vicki McKenna

The author draws on the philosophy of Daoism to explain and treat Liver Chi stagnation - a blockage of life energy with symptoms ranging from a sense of oppression in the chest wit...

Ear Candling: The Basic Facts

by Dr Patrick Quanten

This article looks at ear candling, an ancient treatment that was re-discovered by the Western culture from the Hopi Indian practices in North America. Traditionally ear candling w...

Eating Right for Your Climate

by Attilio D\'Alberto

This column looks into the Diet Therapy offered by Chinese Medicine practitioners. The author also provides a brief description of the climatic conditions suffered by people living...

Facial Tells of 'Dis-ease' - What your Facial Features can Reveal

by Emma Lane

Face reading has been utilized by healers for thousands of years. The ancient Chinese believed that your face reflects who you are and why you think, feel and behave the way that y...

Feng Shui for Health

by John Bethell

As the popularity of Feng Shui grows in the Western world, it has been notable in the fact that its primary function is being lost in the midst of the enthusiasm for it: primarily,...

Five Elements Nutrition

by Penny Crowther

In this issue Penny Crowther looks at the cycles of nature and what they meant according to ancient Chinese wisdom and how we can incorporate those same principals into our lifesty...

Five Elements Nutrition

by Penny Crowther

In this column (which continues on from the last on how the ancient Chinese theory of the Five Elements can give nutrition practitioners a useful extra perspective), the author loo...

Get Yourself Connected

by Vicki McKenna

The topic of this article is the importance, for happiness, good health, and longevity, of being connected within loving and supportive networks.

Healthy Eating According to Asian Wisdom

by Jason Bussell

Jason Bussell begins by making the point that while obesity is a big problem in the west, the Asian body shape is thin. He ascribes this to the Asian diet, of which the overriding ...

Holism or Dualism: East or West

by Susanna Dowie

According to the author, a Chinese medicine doctor, living and trained in China, sees no distinction between the mind and body but just a pattern of energetic disharmony when treat...

How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Go with the Flow

by Vicki McKenna

2012 might be remembered as the year of the damp squib ‘Mayan Apocalypse’ - the end times that never happened.

I Am Everyone (Or How To Live Together Peacefully)

by Vicki McKenna

At the time of writing, the world had just witnessed the awful massacre of the editorial staff at the Charlie Hebdo magazine. News of the murders was greeted with shock and fear, b...

Insomnia - a Chinese Approach

by Vicki McKenna

Tackling the problem of insomnia from the perspective of Chinese medicine, which states that problems associated with sleeplessness are due to imbalances in 'The Three Treaures': C...

Integration of Traditional Chinese Medicine for Coronavirus COVID-19

by Geoff D'Arcy

The Coronavirus (COVID 19) was born late December 2019 into humans, during the cold damp Winter of Wuhan, the capital city of Hubei province China. This nasty, new-born cousin of th...

Keeping In Touch

by Vicki McKenna

Now that I am a grandmother I have the opportunity to cuddle one or other of my grandchildren on an almost daily basis; as I embrace their warm little bodies I feel a sense of deep ...

Letting Go of Being Right

by Vicki McKenna

This column focuses on letting go of our need to be in the right, and how to be ‘empty of self’ in the true Daoist way. According to the author, by being in harmony with Nature, th...

Living In A Technological World

by Vicki McKenna

Many of us are finding the digital revolution to be overwhelming. Some of us are in agreement with the novelist Jonathon Franzen when he calls Twitter “unspeakably irritating...” a...