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The contents of this blog are based on what I have learnt about Traditional Chinese Medicine over the last 17 years first as a recipient of treatments and then as a practitioner.

Chinese Medicine was the one thing that finally turned my health in the right direction, and opened my eyes to the endless possibilities of life, during my own process of healing from the chronic renal failure I developed aged 24, which stopped me on my tracks two years later. I have also explored many other traditions of natural health and benefited enormously from nutrition, Yoga, Bach Flower Remedies, and from delving into the spiritual dimension of health and healing. I am thus sharing ideas born from a blend of inspiring and knowledgeable authors and practitioners, spiritual traditions, and from my own experience as a patient and as a practitioner.

Books that have particularly contributed to these ideas are listed below:

Chinese Medicine Theory:

Kaptchuk, Ted J. - Chinese Medicine: The Web that has no Weaver
Maciocia, Giovanni - The Foundations of Chinese Medicine
Ross, Jeremy - Zang Fu: The Organ Systems of Traditional Chinese Medicine

 Chinese Medicine Nutrition:

Leggett, Daverick - Recipes for Self- Healing
Leggett, Daverick - Helping Ourselves: A Guide to Traditional Chinese Food Energetics

Women's Health:

Zhao, Xiaolan - Traditional Chinese Medicine for Women


Food Production:

Lawrence, Felicity - Not on the Label: What really goes into the food on your plate 

Spirituality

Myss, Caroline - Anatomy of the Spirit

Myss, Caroline -Why people don't heal and how they can
Tolle, Eckhart - A New Earth
Rinpoche, Sogyal - Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Rodegast, Pat - Emmanuel's Book - A Guide for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos

Natural Medicine/ Alternative Therapies:

Blome, Gotz - Advanced Bach Flower Therapy