In my experience, acupuncture is often perceived as a mysterious and magical mode of healing, which is a reasonable conclusion for most of us to reach. One of the key elements required to grasp Chinese medicine, is to broaden our understanding of the human body, its interaction with the world around us on an immediate, but also much more expansive level and, importantly, to be able to change our language in reference to the workings of the body and the pathologies that we exp