Introduction

[Guest guest]

I've contributed a little to this discussion group, and didn't realise that a

short note about myself was called for.

 

I've been an acupuncturist and Chinese herbal medicine practitioner in London

for about 17 years, having studied with Van Buren, Ted Kaptchuk, Giovanni

Maciocia, and Thong Nguyen (a third generation Vietnamese Chinese

herbalist/acupuncturist). I've been an officer in the Register of Chinese Herbal

Medicine and European Herbal Practitioners Association, dealing primarily with

political and registration issues, and was an early member of the British

Acupuncture Council Committee considering the state regulation of acupuncture. I

have contributed articles to the Journal of and the European

Journal of Oriental Medicine, and have been host of the British Acupuncture

Council email discussion group for many years (so a lot of this discussion group

material is along familiar lines - but my congratulations to Attilio for hosting

such a productive and stimulating group!). Among my concerns have been the

paradigm issues associated with practising Chinese medicine in the West.

 

Wainwright Churchill