Here’s another little lesson in following up even the tiniest clues to the elements, sent to me by Pierre from France .   I give his words ...

This week a practitioner asked my help with a patient of his, whom I diagnosed as Metal.   I thought she was more likely to be the Lung offi...

Here are two observations about what I wrote in my last blog by two of my Earth practitioner friends, one living in Beijing and the other i...

I always like looking at the ways the different elements express their emotions, and   my last blog (14 August) has made me think about how ...

Having written about the Wood element in positions of power in my last blog (posted 5 December), I feel I should turn my attention to the o...

Anybody who knows anything about me will know how often I plead for one basic principle of five element acupuncture, which is to keep it sim...

A few days ago I was sitting in my favourite café enjoying my favourite meal of the day, which is breakfast – a small espresso with a drop o...

Usain Bolt is, of course, pure Fire, at the moment the most visible example dominating our headlines.   Watching him interact with the crowd...

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 nothing...

Each element will think in its own particular way.   Metal will speedily resolve issues in its mind, cutting its way through thickets of tho...

In my blog of 23 October I wrote about the relationships Wood, Fire and Metal like to have with other people.  Now it is the turn of Earth a...

Here is what a fellow practitioner told me after changing her patient’s treatment from the Fire to the Earth element.   After one treatment ...

Each day of my practice adds one more day of learning.   Today’s lesson came from something I observed in myself after I had been asked to...

Here is an amusing little observation I made during my morning’s breakfast excursion to a local café.   It was quite full, and I tried to fi...

What a very odd term this is, some of my readers may say.   It is one I heard for the first time a few days ago, but is apparently one used...

I  have always liked writing down particularly relevant quotes about the different elements in the books I read.   The first quote is from a...

Today’s newspaper yielded yet another interesting snippet.   An article from the New York Times International Weekly had the intriguing tit...

Why do all babies seem to need dummies now? This question often occurs to me as I watch babies passing me on the street, all lustily suckin...

We can so easily fall into the habit of asking for confirmation from our patients that our treatment is helping them.   It is not our patien...

The difficulties I experience with Earth patients are of a different kind from those   with Wood or Fire.   I have found that the need to be...