Prof. Liu has been instrumental in recent years in preserving valuable clinical aspects of Chinese medicine that are gradually getting forgotten due to the standardization efforts of institutionalized TCM. One of his outstanding achievements is the discovery of a thriving system of 5-Element therapy that is purely based on rectifying negative emotions, practiced by storytellers in Northern China, yet suppressed and unacknowledged by the state-run TCM system. In this seminar, one of China´s major proponents of energetic healing will present his personal impressions and clinical experience with “Five Virtue Healing”.

By treating the weakest link in the Elemental chain, the practitioner achieves a deeper and more lasting change. Treating this constitutional imbalance also forms an important part of any treatment designed to improve symptoms and/or a patient’s overall well being.
The constitutional imbalance is diagnosed by colour on the face, sound in the voice, the patient’s body odour and the most-out-of-balance-emotion. The emotional imbalance is the most revealing of all of these. Each Element produces a wide range of related emotions. For example, anger is the emotion associated with Wood, but an imbalanced Wood can produce depression, mild frustration, anger and ballistic rage – with many variations.
Simple observation, whilst sometimes successful, is rarely sufficient to determine the emotional imbalance. J.R. Worsley developed the process he called ‘emotion testing’ which produces what simple observation alone cannot achieve.
John will show you:
• Through demonstration and lecture, how to develop an ‘emotion-testing’ strategy,
• By using videos of patients, how to see the difference between a normal and an abnormal response, and
• Through exercises and practise, how to develop the required skills.

Since the publication of his groundbreaking book Sikao Zhorgyi (Contemplating Chinese Medicine), Prof. Liu has emerged as perhaps the must visible scholar-physician among his generation of younger Chinese medicine doctors. He has led the Chinese effort of a renaissance of classical Chinese medicine knowledge, founding the Institute for the Clinical research of Classical Chinese Medicine. He argues that the future role of Chinese medicine rests solely in its effectiveness for both acute an chronic diseases. In this workshop, he will share his personal experiences in supporting the yang as the most important foundation for clinical effectiveness.