Giovanni Maciocia is a world-renowned practitioner of acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine in Europe. Originally from a medical family in Italy, he trained in England at the International College of Oriental Medicine, graduating in acupuncture in 1974 after a three-year course. He was an accomplished practitioner with over 39-years of research and clinical experience.
History
In 1980, 1982, and 1987, he attended three postgraduate courses in acupuncture in China at the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine of the duration of three months each, gaining invaluable knowledge and clinical experience. He reads Chinese, therefore has access to all the Chinese medicine textbooks, old and modern, published in China. Giovanni also studied Western herbalism and graduated from the National Institute of Medical Herbalists in 1977.
Giovanni Maciocia is the author of "Tongue Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine", "The Foundations of Chinese Medicine", "The Practice of Chinese Medicine", "Obstetrics and Gynaecology in Chinese Medicine", "Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine", and "The Channels of Acupuncture" which have become textbooks for all major acupuncture colleges in the world.
In 1996, Giovanni Maciocia was appointed "Visiting Professor" of the Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a foremost teaching institution in China.
Giovanni is the author of many articles published in professional journals and his article on M.E. (post-viral fatigue syndrome) has been published in a Chinese medical journal, an honor rarely bestowed on foreign writers in China. Giovanni has extensive experience in teaching, having taught acupuncture and Chinese medicine since 1974 in several schools all over the world. He is well known for his rigorous and meticulous style combining a thorough knowledge of Chinese medicine with 28-years clinical experience. While firmly rooted in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Giovanni's ideas are often innovative as the theories of Chinese medicine need to be adapted to Western conditions and new Western diseases. For example, Giovanni has formulated an innovative and original new theory on the aetiology and pathology of asthma and allergic rhinitis. He also formulated a theory on the aetiology, pathology, diagnosis and treatment of M.E. (Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome) entirely from scratch as this, being a new disease, did not exist in the Chinese literature.
