Five Element Acupuncture for Midsomer Norton, Radstock and the surrounding area

I recently read that the personality of heart transplant patients can change in ways that reflect the personality of their organ donor....

The loss of one night’s sleep is followed by ten days of inconvenience Chinese Proverb I recently had a very bad nights sleep and the...

“Its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years” Dr Edward Stieglitz The Yangsheng or Nourishing Life tradition...

“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better of myself.” Mickey Mantle, baseball player (1931-1995) I recently had a...

A quick post on what a community acupuncture clinic is and why I want to set one up for Midsomer Norton & Radstock

Last night I started re-reading Soil and Soul by Alistair McIntosh and in the first few pages I came across this passage: 'The very...

For many years I was an antiquarian book-dealer, which involved driving all over the country buying books that I subsequently shipped all...

I was recently listening to a talk by the Buddhist teacher James Low, which included an anecdote from his schooldays. Low was born in...

A brief look at migraines and why acupuncture might provide effective treatment with lasting effects,

Somewhere near the beginning of the film Fight Club Edward Norton’s character observes that “when you have insomnia you’re never really...

A brief look at how 5 Element acupuncture can provide effective and empowering treatment for depression

Depression has a long history and melancholia (the name depression was given prior to the 20th century) is mentioned in the Aphorisms of...

Most of what follows was written some years ago in response to a paper on psychoneuroimmunology. It really was me thinking aloud and was...

I’ve recently started working from a new clinic and decided I wanted to have something on the wall that said something about what it is...

How the work of Dr Valter Longo may dramatically improve the experience of at least some patients undergoing chemotherapy. It’s almost...

How Eric Fromm's idea of the 'Being Mode' mirrors ancient Chinese conceptions of health