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Saturday, June 20, 2020
Some thoughts on seasonal treatments
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A fellow five-element acupuncturist who lives in Malawi, Sophie Barrowcliff, has asked me about seasonal treatments, and this has made me ...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Passing people by on the street in lockdown London
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I don’t know why I am still so surprised at the different reactions I am getting to my approaches to those I encounter on my daily walk arou...
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Monday, May 18, 2020
Fighting Fire with Fire
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During my acupuncture training I remember hearing the words “fighting Fire with Fire”, and the phrase has always stuck with me. I am now n...
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
A Samuel Pepys quote for today
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose (The more things change, the more they stay the same) Every day a page of Samuel Pepys’ diary a...
Thursday, April 23, 2020
None of us can escape our past
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During these terrible days as COVID19 locks down the world, I have been thinking a lot about what may cause some of those in power to reac...
Friday, April 17, 2020
Some more little pointers to the Wood element
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I was with a Wood friend one day and after a few hours in her company I realised that I wanted to ask her an odd question, which was, “Do yo...
Monday, April 13, 2020
The challenge of being a five element acupuncturist
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We must never be too quick to say “I know this patient’s element is obviously Fire (or Wood or Earth or Metal or Water)”. There is nothi...
Monday, March 9, 2020
A call for more five element teachers
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It is one of my sadnesses that so few good five element practitioners want to pass on their experiences to a new generation of student acupu...
Friday, February 21, 2020
An ancient form of healing for a modern world in crisis: how an understanding of the five elements helps us cope better with the stresses of modern life
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We are living through difficult times, perhaps more difficult than any that I can recall as an adult, though a childhood spent under the sha...
Friday, January 31, 2020
The challenge of teaching five element acupuncture in China
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I have now given 14 twice-yearly seminars on five element acupuncture in China since 2011. On my return from the last visit in October 20...
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