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Notes on the body, the nervous system and Chinese medicine.

Short, practical posts, written the way I talk in the clinic.

Steam rising from freshly cooked white rice on a dark wooden spoon, with soft light from a window behind.

Steam off the rice: what Qi really is

Why Qi is not quite energy, what the old character is actually showing us, how gas carries messages in the body, and why the word for medicine has music hidden inside it.

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1 October 2026

When your chest pounds, your stomach burns and A&E finds nothing wrong

How a tense gut can set off palpitations, reflux and panic: the Liver and Spleen/Pancreas disharmony, two stressed valves, the diaphragm and the vagus nerve, and what I do to settle it.

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