Over 1,000 hours of clinical practice have been observed as a requirement for the degree in the Asanté Academy of Chinese Medicine and the NHS Whittington Hospital in London. 

Aman also had the opportunity to attend a 6-month clinical placement in the Dong Fang Hospital of Beijing. This was part of his Master’s degree, which was supervised by the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. 

Under the tutelage and guidance of world-class renowned doctors of TCM, Aman was able to get the first hand experience of Chinese Medicine on a large scale in the hospital. This enabled Aman to expand his skills and knowledge further in a practical setting of Chinese Medicine, over the course of a length of time. 

    Aman’s clinical experiences have leaded him to have further specialised interests in clinical dermatology disorders such as acne vulgaris, eczema and psoriasis. Musculoskeletal disorders, stroke, brain haemorrage, diabetes treatment, depression problems and osteoarthritis conditions are also areas of interest for treatments.

    Aman started his journey at the age of 17, when he enrolled into a traditional closed school of Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu (Nan Tang Lang Gong Fu), martial arts called Steelwire Mantis, under the guidance of Sifu Tony Clements. This resulted in a complete character and lifestyle change, which is quite essential to becoming an accomplished martial artist. During this time Aman was studying his A-levels and in good faith continued to study Traditional Chinese Medicine at Middlesex University, as a majority of the principles and philosophies of martial arts are followed in Chinese Medicine also.

    Aman is currently undertaking further Continuing Professional Development courses, as to ensure the quality of treatments offered to patients have maximum benefits and he constantly strives to keep his clinical knowledge up to date. He is an accredited member with the Acupuncture Association (AA) and the British Acupuncture Federation (BAF). Aman persistently adheres to the full professional practice codes set out by these associations and believes in keeping the patient’s treatments affordable and to a highest quality of standard.

    Also on a positive note Aman holds personal interests in collecting and drinking rare forms of Chinese fine teas, international coffees, studying philosophies, appreciating essential oil scents, enhancing spirituality and an enthusiast for classic cars also. Please do not hesitate to talk to him about anything interesting during treatments, as he believes sharing knowledge on passions is most vital!

Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical system devised from the times of ancient China dating back to approximately just over 2,000 years ago. What makes TCM much more interesting, is that it was believed that the earliest recordings of the theories and philosophies of the medical system were based on a conversation between The Yellow Emperor (Huang Di) and his accomplices, and consequently recorded down to produce the first known scripture of Chinese Medicine, called The Yellow Emperor’s Book on Internal Medicine (Huang Di Neijing Suwen). This took into consideration a patient’s constitution, diet, living environment and therefore the disease manifestations. The conversations included the theories of the causes of diseases and also the applied Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine treatments, to treat the patients. These theories were so precise for their time that amazingly they are still in effect in the present day and are what makes Traditional Chinese Medicine so unique.

    In this time although there were many schools of thoughts developed and many additions to acupuncture points and herbal medicine formulas and individual herbs have been added to the complete overall system, but keeping to the original theories of The Yellow Emperor. Furthermore many more classics came into existence such as Zhang Zhong Jing’s famous book on cold disease theory ‘Shang Han Lun’ which had changed the view of certain febrile diseases such as even a fever. Surprisingly the fundamental principles of Chinese Medicine never changed with time but only the approach of individual practitioners.
These medical classics are the scriptures that form the complete a lot of the understanding of philosophy of TCM nowdays. Many additions of knowledgeable works were added after the Neijing. Such as Shen Nong’s Herbal Classic (Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing) which was compiled at the end of the Western Han dynasty and listed various medicinal herbs present in common formulas even now. The Classic of Difficulties (Nan Jing) was also written around the same time by legendary doctor Bian Que and answered the TCM concept of 81 questions regarding TCM theory. The Shanghan Zabing Lun (Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders) and Essential Prescriptions from the Golden Cabinet (Jin Gui Yao Lue) by Zhang Zhong Jing was compiled in the Eastern Han dynasty and was the first work compiled on febrile diseases with fevers and colds. The Pulse Classic (Mai Jing) was written by Wang Shuhe and discussed new profound theories of the 24 pulses in relation to clinical significance of disease manifestations. The Newly Revised Materia Medicae Tang Edition (Tang Ben Cao) which is considered to be the first book of Chinese Pharmacopeia was created by the Tang dynasty government hence starting the first documenting of Chinese Herbal Medicine as a collective system taking herbs from all over China.
TCM developed a theory of viewing the human body from a holistic approach. The body is basically connected as a whole through 14 meridians or channels that run from the head to toe along different sides of the body, and each meridian is named after an organ. Qi or pronounced as ‘chi’ is the underlying life force energy of the universe and also consists in the human body. The Qi many become blocked, stagnated or even over flowing in certain parts of the meridians so hence they have to be diagnosed with a traditional consultation, that takes the pulse and tongue into consideration. Each organ has a specific function in TCM so therefore when these meridians are treated, they have direct treatment ability on that affected organ according to what the patient underlying conditions are.
Consequently the TCM core philosophy of treatment is to keep the Qi in constant flowing motion around the body and to keep a balance of the Shen (mind) Xue (blood) Yin and Yang.