Episode 15 Intro: Chinese Medicine & Coronavirus Covid-19

This is a quick introduction to a longer episode coming next week, regarding Chinese Medicine and the novel coronavirus Covid-19. Since the outbreak of the virus, our Chinese Medicine colleagues in China have been using individualised Chinese herbal medicine to ease symptoms and support recovery from the disease. I’ll be going into more detail [...]

By |2021-02-04T11:28:24+10:00March 5th, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Episode 14: Late Summer Diet & Lifestyle Tips

Right now, we find ourselves in the season of Late Summer – a time of humidity and dampness that can overwhelm the organ systems related to digestion and fluid metabolism, potentially resulting in digestive symptoms, weight changes, fluid retention, swelling, fatigue and foggy thinking. Luckily, Chinese Medicine has developed simple diet and lifestyle tweaks [...]

By |2021-02-04T11:28:26+10:00February 27th, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Episode 12: Five Elements, Organ Systems & Emotions

Today we demystify the 5 Elements - a central concept that we use in Chinese Medicine to classify things, symptoms, phenomena and the world around us. Stemming from Daoist philosophy, for the past several thousand years, 5 Element thought has informed Chinese science, technology and culture, influencing fields as diverse as military strategy, music, [...]

By |2021-02-04T11:28:28+10:00February 13th, 2020|Uncategorized|2 Comments

Episode 11: Everything Old is New again! The convergence of leading-edge biomedicine with ancient Chinese Medicine wisdom

It’s such an interesting time for us Doctors of Chinese Medicine right now, as we are seeing more and more of our fundamental medical concepts embraced as the foundation of the most progressive biomedicine, particularly in the spheres of functional & integrative medicine - and in medicine personalised to the individual. We also see [...]

By |2021-02-04T11:28:30+10:00February 6th, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments

Episode 9: Happy New Year of the Metal Rat!

The Chinese New Year of the Metal Rat is just around the corner, and it's a big party, with one quarter of the world's population getting ready to celebrate! Let's find out more about the Metal Rat Year, and ways that we can celebrate to bring in more luck, health and abundance in this [...]

By |2021-02-04T11:28:33+10:00January 23rd, 2020|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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