Chinese Medicine Theory in London

20/09/2026

☝️😊 It is time to prepare for 中秋節 Mid- autumn festival which celebrates the moon. 25th September 2026. 🤣

Let's make 粵廣伍仁月餅 Mixed Nuts Mooncakes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_nP-uWi5kA

Mooncake is the food of the Mid-Autumn Festival and a symbol of reunion. If a family can eat mooncakes during the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is a reunion. It turned out that moon cakes have also served as an important historical mission.

月餅是中秋節的應節食品，也是團圓的象徵，如果一家人能在中秋節同吃月餅，便有一家團聚的意思了。原來，月餅還曾擔任過重要的歷史任務呢。

相傳元朝時，蒙古人壓迫漢人。到了元朝末期，漢人奮起反抗。有一次，率領民眾反抗的主將朱元璋要將反抗的信息祕密傳到百姓手裏於是他的軍師劉伯溫想出一條妙計，他裝扮成賣餅人，將紙條放進月餅內，上面寫著：「中秋夜，齊動手，殺撻子。」結果成功地把反元的信息祕密傳播開去。想不到，看似平凡的月餅卻曾擔任不平凡的任務。

According to legend, the Mongolians oppressed the Han people. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the Han people fought back. On one occasion, the leader who led the people to resist, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to pass the message of rebellion to the people, so his military teacher Liu Bowen came up with a trick. He dressed up as a seller and put the note into the mooncake, which read: Mid-Autumn Night, Qi Qi, killing the scorpion." The result was successfully spread the secret information of the anti-yuan. Unexpectedly, the seemingly ordinary moon cakes have served as an extraordinary task. See less

20/09/2026

A part of British history we are not supposed to know.

Liverpool’s ties with the Chinese community are strongly intertwined due to Liverpool’s history as a major port. The connecting factor is the shipping enterprise, Alfred Holt & Company and their subsidiary, the Blue Funnel Line, whose cargo ships linked Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Liverpool, importing silk, cotton, and tea. Additionally, waves of Chinese seamen migrating to the UK/Liverpool can be traced to British colonialism, starting with the First O***m War (1839-1842) which led China to yield Hong Kong to the UK, and the expansion of British influence on the mainland. The first presence of Chinese people that arrived in Liverpool in the 1860s were seamen. Moreover, because of the Second World War, an estimated 20,000 Chinese seamen were recruited from Shanghai, Singapore, and Hong Kong (countries with ties to the British Colonial Rule) into the British Merchant Navy and they were mostly stationed at Liverpool. Some set up roots in Liverpool, marrying and cohabiting (some chose not to marry because the woman could lose her British citizenship and benefits) with local women, starting families, and establishing businesses that catered to seamen on shore (boarding houses, grocery and laundry shops, Chinese restaurants, and takeaways, etc.)

Although the Chinese seamen were instrumental during Britain’s warfare, there was a pay disparity between them and their British counterparts. Demands for equal pay and treatment led to striking action in 1942, which saw them being labelled as instigators. Riddled with feelings of resentment (stirred up by media representation) and xenophobia, the shipping companies and government conspired to utilise “the usual steps for getting rid of foreign seamen whose presence here is unwelcome” after the war. (The “usual steps” might have been referring to an earlier mass deportation of 95,000 Chinese men that were recruited in the First World War).

This resulted in the operation of ‘compulsory repatriation of undesirable Chinese seamen at Liverpool’ by the Home Office in October 1945. Chinese men were forcibly rounded up, taken off the streets and brought on to ships with a one-way passage to either Saigon, Singapore, China, or Hong Kong. The forced deportation of Chinese men meant that women and mixed-race children were left behind, with no indication as to what ensued. With the Home Office sworn to secrecy and the families left behind being kept in the dark

**2024 International Emmy Award Nominee in Documentary category**...

21/08/2026

📖Traditional Chinese Medicine: Professionalization and Integration in Hong Kong (Mediated Health Series) (2019), Kara Chan & D**g D**g, City University of Hong Kong Press

"Chinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with “Western” biomedicine. Legitimization of Chinese medicine in biomedicine-dominated health systems, such as that in Hong Kong, has posed significant issues. This anthology of articles explores relevant social issues related to various Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture and medicinal oils, as well as insight into practitioner licensing and public perception. Each chapter tackles a topic related to the complicated process of legitimizing knowledge and power within a specific social and historical context.

Written by professors and researchers with extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine, government regulation, and sociology, this collection provides an overview of the challenges and current social context of Chinese medicine that affect students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, health and para-health biomedical professionals, and patients alike.

Traditional Chinese Medicine: Professionalization and Integration in Hong Kong is the first book in the Mediated Health Series, which focuses on the effects of media, lifestyle, doctor-patient communication, and the economy on health and aims to help inform medical decisions and enhance the wellbeing of individuals.

"This well-researched book provides deep insight into the landscape of traditional Chinese Medicine (CM), focusing on ethnic and esoteric interpretations of “Chinese” and “Western” medicine. The discussion of legitimation and perception, acupuncture, and hybridization and integration of CM provides a unique contribution into the domain. CM academics, enthusiasts, and practitioners will certainly find this book insightful, compelling, and intriguing."

– Prof Ian Phau, School of Marketing, Curtin Business 香港中文大學中醫學院 School of Chinese Medicine, CUHK

Chinese medicine (CM) was not something I was familiar with. None of my family members had consulted a CM practitioner (CMP). Then, a few years ago, I suffered from shoulder pain, which was later diagnosed as being caused by a muscle tear, likely a result

19/08/2026

🥰🥤🧋☕️ Who would like some pampering and a drink?

19/08/2026

😍Imagine... You pop into a shop for a cup of hot drink. On a screen, it invites you to take an image of your tongue. Next, you head over to what looks like a nail bar... You offer up your wrist and the device gently takes your pulse. Soon, it summarises its diagnostics and offers you a shortlist of suitable herbal teas from their menu. 🥤 Going for a coffee will never be the same 🥰
Have you tried it? Would you? Tell us what you think.

At these gelato and cocktail places in Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur, traditional Chinese medicine is the secret ingredient for their success.

16/07/2026

Moxibustion in Hong Kong martial art cinema 😍

Nyd de videoer og den musik, du holder af, upload originalt indhold, og del det hele med venner, familie og verden på YouTube.

13/06/2026

David Hockney had a deep appreciation of Chinese art.

BBC documentary. Andrew Marr interviews David Hockney, widely consi...

03/02/2026

🌿🌱立春 (Lichun) We are half way between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. In the Chinese almanac, this marks the start of spring 🌱🍀Traditionally, farmers would celebrate with 春餅 spring pancakes filled with vegetables and fungi; whereas the nobilities would have roasted duck in their wraps 😋

立春中醫養生重點在於「護陽養肝」與「疏肝理氣」。早睡早起、伸懶腰、適度運動如快走或八段錦來調節氣血，避免春睏。

It is the time to focus on “protecting Yang energy and nourishing the Liver” to prevent spring fatigue. By “soothing the Liver and regulating Qi.”

We adapt to the season by going to bed early and also to wake up early; do daily stretch exercises, and engage in moderate exercise such as brisk walking or 八段錦 Baduanjin to regulate Qi and improve blood circulation.

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16/12/2025

Garden Museum's 'Seeds of Exchange exhibition - explores the exchange of botanical knowledge shared between Canton (now Guangzhou) and London between 1766-1773, through a collection of Chinese botanical art and research displaying the first time in Britain since it was commissioned 235 years ago.

🗓️ 11 February - 31 May 2026
www.gardenmuseum.org.uk

[By John Bradby Blake, Mauk-Sow-U, and Whang-y-Tong. - Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=67528571]