Back when I was a teenager one song that still sticks in my mind is Rappers Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang. I particularly remember the line in it that says “ after school, I take a dip in the pool”….. It conjured up images of how great it must be to go to school […]
In Japan, autumn was one of my favourite seasons. I used to take a train up to the mountains to see the colour changes in the trees. It was always different every year as the vibrant colours depend on how hot and humid the summer was. If it was very hot, then there would be […]
An attractive thing about oriental medicine, or any art for that matter, is the beauty of creating something from nothing. Oriental medicine could easily be called “the medicine of nothing” and I believe my teacher Edward sensei once referred to it this way. For example, when I touch- needle a point or watch a cone […]
Over the last couple of days I have noticed quite a lot of yellow pollen on my car. This has also coincided with a few extra visits in the clinic from those suffering from hay fever related symptoms. I have treated quite a few people who have a tendency to hay fever They have told […]
Over the Christmas period I was watching and old comedy sketch by Morecambe and Wise from the 1970s which is the one with Andre Previn . After playing the piano really badly Morecomb turns and says to Andre “ I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order”! Anyway, the […]
For those of you reading this who has visited my clinic, you will be familiar with the smell of the smoke and experience of a good body (and mind) awakening moxa treatment. People who first enter my clinic sometimes comment that they think I may smoke pot between my patients! I had one Dutch fellow […]
( versión española estará disponible en breve ) It’s very hard to strike a happy medium with exercise. Firstly, you are in effect traumatizing your body and then need to recover. Secondly, you need to make sure that you have enough energy to exercise (to aid the recovery) and finally, why do it in […]
Below I have translated the preface to Zhang Zhongjing’s Classic “The Treatise on Cold Damage” compiled around 220AD. I translated it a while back while in Japan during an intense period of study. It’s from Ikeda Sensei’s Japanese translation of the Sho Kan Ron ( Shang Han Lun ) Handbook which I translated with a […]
I was on a flight yesterday from London and the gentleman next to me was sweating a lot and telling his friend that he thought he was going to be sick. While I was listening to this conversation I was reminded of a time when I used to travel on packed trains in the summer […]
