Podcast Course
Women's Health Medicine from Zhejiang
Fertility. Empower more than just eggs. The power of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
(number of) NCCAOM PDA
Goals and Objectives
- Zhejiang province’s deep, rich and useful lineages such as the infamous Song family gynecological tradition, as well as others
- Using Mai Ya for lumps and cysts
- The vital importance of the uterine lining in fertility cases
- The problem with “evidence based” medicine
- Role of placebo in clinic is different than in research
- Treating dampness when there is yin deficiency
Meet Your instructor
Steve Clavey
I headed off to Taiwan in 1977 to learn acupuncture after meeting someone at a martial arts camp.
I didn't actually know anything about Chinese medicine and had never even heard of Chinese herbs, but for some reason I thought it would be a good idea. I'd done a bit of Chinese at college, but the first acupuncture teachers I approached let me know right away that it was not good enough. So for the five years in Taiwan I continued my language studies.
The language foundation was crucial for the next two years in mainland China, first in Nanjing and then in Hangzhou, where I followed Professor Song Guang-Ji, the 37th generation of Song family gynecology.
Leaving China and moving to Australia, in 1986 I set up a Chinese medicine gynecology practice in Melbourne, and have been practicing here ever since. Chinese medicine in Australia has a long and illustrious history, the itinerant Chinese doctors serving all and sundry around the gold fields, and embedding the impression in the Australian mind that Chinese medicine is safe, effective and cheap. It's been a great place to practice.