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The Holistic Treatment of an Ageing Population with Traditional Chinese Medicine

by Bernadette Ward

Bernadette Ward, Director of The Acupuncture Foundation in Ireland, describes the basic tenets of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and how TCM can be used effectively to combat t...

The Spirits of Chinese Medicine and Depression

by Tracey Goulding

According to the author, the goal of conventional medicine is to cure disease, but because it has a clear target to focus on, it sometimes overlooks the bigger picture: mainly the...

The Withering of Yin: A Mid-Life Crisis

by Attilio D\'Alberto

In this column the author explains how Yin and Yang energy work in our daily lives – from diet, sleep and emotions to sex and our environment – and how we can benefit for understan...

Understanding Nutrition in Chinese Medicine

by Attilio D\'Alberto

This article helps us understand nutrition through the history of Chinese medicine, which believes that the seasons have a profound cyclical effect on human growth and wellbeing in...

Westerners Learning Complementary Therapies in China

by Anna-Louise Haigh Milne

The decision to travel to the East to participate in learning about traditional Chinese methods of health care, is not just a geographical journey but rather an expansion of onesel...

Why do we become ill?

by Peter Mole

Western and Chinese medicine have radically different views about how we become ill. In Western medicine, for example, the notion that the emotional life of the person plays a sign...