Late Summer & Damp: Spleen health tips
Right now where I live, we find ourselves well into the season of Late Summer. As I write this, a summer storm has barrelled through and all I can hear is pouring [...]
Every living moment can be a ceremony
With the Lunar New Year festival ending on this coming full moon (and the recent flipping over into the new Gregorian year of 2025), I've been reflecting on new [...]
Episode 38: are ice baths harmful to health? Chinese Medicine says YES
In this episode, we look to the millennia-old science and wisdom of Chinese Medicine to ask: are ice baths harmful to health?? From a Chinese Medicine perspective - which honours, stokes and [...]
Episode 37: Happy Lunar New Year of the Wood Snake – and different ways of marking time
On the next New Moon, which falls on the 29th January 2025, we move into a new Chinese Lunar year. We are leaving behind the Year of the Wood Dragon and flowing [...]
Episode 36: Candida (foe, or friend?), gut health & Chinese Medicine
What makes up a human body? Did you know that the number of microbial (bacteria, fungi, etc) cells that live in and on our bodies can outnumber “human” cells by up to [...]
Episode 35: Frozen Shoulder – how can Chinese Medicine help?
Chinese Medicine offers many therapies which can speed the release of "frozen shoulder", also known as adhesive capsulitis. The treatment clue is in the name: what is "frozen" is cold and immobilised, [...]
Episode 34: How did the ancient Chinese figure out the meridian pathways?
In recent years, modern science has finally arrived at technologies that are sensitive enough to measure biophotons, bioelectricity, conductivity, resistance and energetic flow pathways in living beings, and the resultant findings have [...]
Episode 33: Chinese Medicine: parallels with structured water, frequency & information medicine, quantum biology
As an eternal student and Doctor of Chinese Medicine, I am struck by the fact that many of the discoveries at the frontiers of health science - various biohacking, structured water, circadian [...]
Episode 32: Nourishing Life – ancient wisdom to thrive through the decades
Yang Sheng (養生) literally means “Nourishing Life”, and refers to the body of nutritional and lifestyle therapies that is one of the pillars of Chinese Medicine. We view Yang Sheng as the [...]
Episode 31: What is health??
What is health? Is it merely the absence of disease? Or can getting “sick” and having “symptoms” also be a sign of health - an indication of an appropriate response to an [...]