Melbourne-based Jade Elizabeth Ouk has lived quite a life already and her new life in Traditional Chinese Medicine is just about to ramp up. Now a mother of two healthy and happy sons, Jade’s former career spanned new audience development at the Melbourne Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria, Monash University’s Arts faculty, Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne, was in cultural public relations at Sutton PR and was Marketing Director with Osage Gallery and Osage Art Foundation in Hong Kong, when I met her. She is now learning to become a Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner as she finishes up her Bachelor Of Health Science in Chinese Medicine at the Southern School of Natural Therapies this year. Jade has lived a completely colourful life which will even get more colourful once she begins her practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Today we speak with Jade about TCM, the importance of TCM in health, and what we can do to take advantage of Traditional Chinese Medicine practices as a means of daily upkeep and sickness prevention to live healthier lives. We welcome Jade Ouk to the table.
Books To Read from Jade Ouk:
Nurtured by Love by Shinichi Suzuki.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat by Oliver Sacks, neurologist and his case histories
On "Yang Sheng" / Chinese Nourishment of Life tradition that includes diet and lifestyle recommendations:
Live Well Live Long by Peter Deadman
The Harvard Medical School Guide to Tai Chi by Peter M. Wayne with Mark L. Fuerst
Welcoming Food: Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers Book 1 and Book 2 by Andrew Sterman. "I love these books! It's like Andrew is at my home kitchen table explaining potentially complicated things about food, making everything simple. It's fascinating. This work will be very helpful for a lot of people." - Philip Glass, composer
For anybody who wishes to support someone post-birth:
Golden Month: Caring for the World's Mothers After Childbirth by Jenny Allison (outlines a holistic approach towards postnatal care that amalgamates the best practices from different cultures throughout the world)
On "the most lovable of all the great religious texts, funny, keen, kind, modest, indestructibly outrageous, and inexhaustibly refreshing" - Le Guin:
Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin.
"The type of work which the great Polish poet and Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska meant when she spoke of 'that rare miracle when translation stops being a translation and becomes ... a second original."... The whole of Lao Tzo: Tao Te Ching is well worth savouring - as much as for the ancient substance as for Le Guin's stylistic splendour." - Maria Popova, Brain Pickings
For Chinese medical practitioner use:
Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Steven Clavey
Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica 3rd edition by Dan Bensky, Steven Clavey and Andrew Stoger
Secret Shaolin Formulas for the Treatment of External Injury new revised edition transmitted by Patriarch De Chan, translated by Zhang Ting-liang and Bob Flaws.
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